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Giovanni

Florence, Italy | Member Since 2009

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  • The Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs, The Creation of Apple and How it Changed the World | [Michael Moritz]
    The Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs, The Creation of Apple and How it Changed the World
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    The Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs, The Creation of Apple and How it Changed the World

    • UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 33 mins)
    • By Michael Moritz
    • Narrated By Kevin Pariseau
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (111)
    Performance
    (64)
    Story
    (64)

    In 1984, The Little Kingdom: The Private Story of Apple Computer told the story of Apples first decade alongside the histories of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Now, completely revised and expanded, Return to the Little Kingdom is the definitive biography of Apple and its founders from the very beginning. Moritz brings readers inside the childhood homes of Jobs and Wozniak and records how they dropped out of college and founded Apple in 1976.

    Brian says: "Good book… Right up until the last hour"
    "Limited in time but much better than Isacsson"
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    It seems to relive those times, so real and interesting to someone who, like me, likes to learn everything about when personal computers were born...

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Wolf Winter | [Clare Francis]
    Wolf Winter
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    Wolf Winter

    • UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 53 mins)
    • By Clare Francis
    • Narrated By Simon Russell Beale
    Overall
    (10)
    Performance
    (7)
    Story
    (8)

    In the chill of the Cold War, two Norwegians are shot dead after straying into Soviet wilderness, killings that will bind together three people in a web of treachery and passion: Halvard Starheim, veteran explorer, torn by the deaths of his friends and his love for a beautiful woman; Ragna Johansen, the attractive widow of one of the dead men, on a desperate search for love and fulfilment; Rolf Berg, brilliant Norwegian journalist, whose secret other life holds the key to a deadly conspiracy.

    Carson says: "A good story, well told"
    "Read it much time ago, I was so curious to hear it"
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    ... and I was not disappointed. Clare Francis here did a great job in creating a nice setting, I could almost feel the cold. It got my attention to the end like when I read the book...

    1 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography | [Walter Isaacson]
    Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
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    Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

    • UNABRIDGED (25 hrs and 7 mins)
    • By Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated By Dylan Baker, Walter Isaacson
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (1011)
    Performance
    (863)
    Story
    (860)

    In Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, Walter Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs' professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs' family members and key colleagues from Apple and its competitors, this is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.

    john says: "More man, less tech, might have made a better book"
    "Too mamy things to tell, too few emotion"
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    The story is so long (Steve did so much) that the attempt to treat all ended up into a quite boringly told sequence. I loved WEST OF EDEN and LITTLE KINGDOM and had great expectations knowing this one had Steve's own accounts in it. But the two books I mentioned since issued then and focusing on a short period of time did such a better job at conveying emotions that Isaacson seems to me to have failed here...
    Narrator is good.

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