"The reader groks Jubal"
Very well done. The voice of the reader in conveying Jubal Harshaw was great and added a lot to the story for me. I have read the book many times over the years and it simply doesn't age. This reading of the book was very well done and I enjoyed it very much!
"great business thinkers organized poorly"
the chapters!!!! It is 28 stories but whoever organized the book made two poor decisions- one, they insisted on reading the bibliography for each of the 28 stories aloud- this is not a good thing to listen to for anyone! But they then insisted on breaking the 28 stories into 14 chapters. This means that if you are like me and hear the mind-numbing recitation of publication dates and websites for 20 references, you will advance to the next chapter- and only get 14 stories! If you then have to plow to the end of each of the 14 stories and try to fineses the access to the next story- you waste a lot of time and hassle.
Bad organization!!!! Please either dump the citations or turn it into 28 chapters!
the stories were brief but good
yes- there are many more
"sad"
I love Robert Heinlein and I have read and enjoyed Spider Robinson since Callahan's! I hate writing a negative review, but I just couldn't finish the book. Perhaps I have outgrown the style or something. There was just too much jocularity, exaggeration, over the top situations, I don't know... just too much grinning by the author/reader. I felt like they were winking and nudging me at every sentence until I finally just gave up. Sorry Spider, I really love your work!
"great series!"
Very impressive early work. I had only heard the later versions through Books on Tape and was quite happy to see that Audible has gone back for books 1-6 (well 1 and 2 so far) to complete the story. Good read and wonderful reader!
"Not quite a Tiger"
I am a huge fan of all things Flashman, I have the entire series in both print and from Books on Tape. This is probably my least favorite book of the series and it is unfortunate that this is the only selection avaialbe from Audible, its not a bad book by any means, it just is not the strongest of the series. David Case IS Flashman- he has done a splendid job with all of the readings. I look forward to the balance of the series being added to the Audible Library! I also acquired this book as a tape from Books on Tape and the tape quality was poor- the Audible version is better.
Flashman remains my favorite series!
"boring..."
perhaps for an insider this might have been useful, but too much talk about jobs and positioning and not enough about the technology.
"Good Steve, Bad Steve, always entertaining..."
I grew up in Cupertino in the 70s in the shadow of Steve Jobs. I have had Bad Steve angry with me (with some justification)and have sat absolutely transfixed when Good Steve introduced NeXT at Davies Hall in SF- no one does it better. The author got it right- Steve represents what most of us in business wish we could be and tracks the resurection of this utterly fascinating icon.
If there were no such thing as Steve Jobs, we would have to invent him...
Only drawback was the book clearly was not written all at once, there were several very obvious repetitions that good editing should have caught. Minor item- overall very good!