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Originally Posted by QuadCityImages
I've been reading Steve Jobs, and I have got to say I highly recommend the book to anyone who's into tech at all. Its known that I'm not an Apple fan, and the book doesn't change my mind, but I also have always given them credit where its due. Its just amazing to read the insiders perspective about how all of the stuff that we have now, from GUI's to cd-ripping to Pixar, came about. The Disney vs Pixar story was something I knew a little about, but this book goes into pretty good detail.
The author does an amazing job of staying neutral. He points it out when Jobs lied, but you can tell he was his friend and respected him. At no time have I felt like the author was over-hyping the good, or glossing over the bad; it really seems like an honest documentation of his life.
Going into the book I knew Jobs was super smart, eccentric, and kind of a jerk. The book has shown me that I underestimated how smart he was, how strange he was, and how much of an ass he could be to people. You couldn't write a fiction novel of his life and have anyone believe it, but here it is in a biography.
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I disagree personally. It was horribly written, poorly edited, factually wrong in many places, and failed to touch on the many of the really important aspects of Jobs' contributions to the industry. I found out after the fact that lots of columnists and industry bloggers agreed with me (not to say I'm right, just that I found out I wasn't alone in my feelings about the book)