Simply entitled "Steve Jobs," the biography moved to the top of Amazon's list of best sellers in 2011 this week, as first noted by MacRumors. In the short time it has been available for purchase, the book has outsold "Heaven is for Real" by Todd Burpo, "StrengthsFinder 2.0" by Tom Rath, "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins, and "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand.
I was just going to write that StrengthFinders 2.0 has been out for quite a while. Quite a few network marketing organizations are using it (including mine), so that probably keeps its sales up. You have to buy a copy for each assessment run.
For those people who missed something, I've already found something that connects the book to the current USC application. I find the connection insightful. I'll leave it up to the readers to find this connection (especially those who didn't learn anything - oh, well...).
Those folks didn't like the book because it was poorly written.
Don't recall anyone saying that, only that it "wasn't literature" (Siracusa quoting someone with approval, I believe).
The book is well written, smooth as glass, a great read, no ego intrusions, only a couple of unfortunate editorial asides, like you and others have noted. And there are several technical gaffes, like saying the antenna band is brushed aluminum on the iP4. But this is minor stuff, should have been caught by a careful editor and/or fact checkers, and one can hope will be fixed in later editions.
I really don't understand why the default position these days is complaint and "disappointment," rather than simple appreciation for a job well done. Reminds me of the kind of reception a certain company's products always get when they come out.
I really don't understand why the default position these days is complaint and "disappointment," rather than simple appreciation for a job well done. Reminds me of the kind of reception a certain company's products always get when they come out.
I have greatly appreciated this book. Of course no book (even that size) can give all possible details we would like to have on this subject. But may be the criticism I would agree with is the writing style, in a way difficult to define : may be the author made so many efforts to appear non emotional that his writing style is distant, which is very unusual with Steve Jobs, that many people like or hate intensely.
I read the book. Checked it out from the Library. The Book really sucked. Jobs would be disappointed.
Those folks didn't like the book because it was poorly written. Simple as that. The size was irrelevant. If you already follow Apple, you probably will learn very little from the book. Further, the book isn't organized well. It bounces all along the time line, and is confusing. Further, it doesn't ask very good questions.
I feel the same way. It reads like a convoluted mess of stories thrown together without much cohesion besides referring to emotional outbursts throughout.
To me, it read like it was written by Steve's enemies rather than his friends. It may paint accurate accounts of the events but a biased story is created when you only focus on either the negative or positive. From the book, I didn't gather in any way that Steve Jobs was a philosopher and a thinker and he very clearly was. You just have to listen to any of his keynotes, speeches or interviews to see this.
In the end though, Isaacson is an author who, like news reporters, are out to make money. He makes the most money by publishing within weeks of his subject's death, the portrayal he makes is irrelevant because he doesn't care about that.
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Simply entitled "Steve Jobs," the biography moved to the top of Amazon's list of best sellers in 2011 this week, as first noted by MacRumors. In the short time it has been available for purchase, the book has outsold "Heaven is for Real" by Todd Burpo, "StrengthsFinder 2.0" by Tom Rath, "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins, and "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand.
I was just going to write that StrengthFinders 2.0 has been out for quite a while. Quite a few network marketing organizations are using it (including mine), so that probably keeps its sales up. You have to buy a copy for each assessment run.
For those people who missed something, I've already found something that connects the book to the current USC application. I find the connection insightful. I'll leave it up to the readers to find this connection (especially those who didn't learn anything - oh, well...).
Those folks didn't like the book because it was poorly written.
Don't recall anyone saying that, only that it "wasn't literature" (Siracusa quoting someone with approval, I believe).
The book is well written, smooth as glass, a great read, no ego intrusions, only a couple of unfortunate editorial asides, like you and others have noted. And there are several technical gaffes, like saying the antenna band is brushed aluminum on the iP4. But this is minor stuff, should have been caught by a careful editor and/or fact checkers, and one can hope will be fixed in later editions.
I really don't understand why the default position these days is complaint and "disappointment," rather than simple appreciation for a job well done. Reminds me of the kind of reception a certain company's products always get when they come out.
I really don't understand why the default position these days is complaint and "disappointment," rather than simple appreciation for a job well done. Reminds me of the kind of reception a certain company's products always get when they come out.
I have greatly appreciated this book. Of course no book (even that size) can give all possible details we would like to have on this subject. But may be the criticism I would agree with is the writing style, in a way difficult to define : may be the author made so many efforts to appear non emotional that his writing style is distant, which is very unusual with Steve Jobs, that many people like or hate intensely.
I read the book. Checked it out from the Library. The Book really sucked. Jobs would be disappointed.
Those folks didn't like the book because it was poorly written. Simple as that. The size was irrelevant. If you already follow Apple, you probably will learn very little from the book. Further, the book isn't organized well. It bounces all along the time line, and is confusing. Further, it doesn't ask very good questions.
I feel the same way. It reads like a convoluted mess of stories thrown together without much cohesion besides referring to emotional outbursts throughout.
To me, it read like it was written by Steve's enemies rather than his friends. It may paint accurate accounts of the events but a biased story is created when you only focus on either the negative or positive. From the book, I didn't gather in any way that Steve Jobs was a philosopher and a thinker and he very clearly was. You just have to listen to any of his keynotes, speeches or interviews to see this.
In the end though, Isaacson is an author who, like news reporters, are out to make money. He makes the most money by publishing within weeks of his subject's death, the portrayal he makes is irrelevant because he doesn't care about that.