Review: Steve Jobs
User Review - Patricia - GoodreadsThis book is huge. And it is quite vast in scope. Jobs is a fascinating man, especially to an Apple fan like me. I found many of the anecdotes amusing and insightful, and occasionally surprising. The ... Read full review
Review: Steve Jobs
User Review - Andrew - GoodreadsA confession: I didn't actually finish this book. Walter Isaacson is a very capable writer, and shows his ability to tell an interesting story. The trouble is, I found Steve Jobs to be a person I didn ... Read full review
Review: Steve Jobs
User Review - Michael Hoopes - GoodreadsAn easy read, definitely intended for a mass audience. I would say that the author seems to lack sufficient technical acumen or curiosity to follow up satisfactorily on some of Jobs' claims, and at ... Read full review
Review: Steve Jobs
User Review - Sarah Smith - GoodreadsSteve Jobs, as the majority of people know was the founder of Apple and died of cancer in 2011. I bought this book for my brother a couple of christmases ago and I borrowed it off him last week as i'm ... Read full review
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User Review - Bob Woodley - GoodreadsQuite a story. Parts of it inspired me to respect creativity and perfectionism, but the man had issues! Jobs was a giant of our time and build the largest company of the world from nothing. So the ... Read full review
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User Review - Andy - GoodreadsSteve Jobs. What a prick. Seriously, it seems he was the worst person in the world to work with or know. It doesn't matter how talented or intelligent you are, there's no need to treat other people ... Read full review
Review: Steve Jobs
User Review - Emily - GoodreadsI gave this to my dad for Christmas last year, and although it took him 11 months to finish all 600 or so pages, I'm relieved it only took me somewhere around a month and a half. This was an ... Read full review
Review: Steve Jobs
User Review - Rob - GoodreadsHaving surprised myself by quite enjoying Commodore: A Company on the Edge by Bagnall, I decided to try the Steve Jobs biography by Isaacson. We've just come through Jobs' illness and death, so the ... Read full review
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User Review - Dan Allosso - GoodreadsIsaacson is probably lucky that Steve Jobs did not have a chance to read his biography. Jobs comes off as a spoiled Californian hippy-wannabe who pretty regularly cries to get his way. Maybe the real ... Read full review
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User Review - Tom Haynes - GoodreadsI guess you could easily call me an Apple fanboi. Started using a Mac in '85 and never looked back. I lived through the Apple decades, so much of the story line I knew from my own history with Apple ... Read full review