Steve Jobs

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 25 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

Featuring a new epilogue read by the author.

From the author of the best-selling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, this is the exclusive biography of Steve Jobs.

Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues - Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.

At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the 21st century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.

Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.

Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple's hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.

©2011 Walter Isaacson (P)2011 Simon & Schuster

It's long, and it's worth it!

Great book. The reader is clear and expressive. There are so many interesting stories about Jobs' life covered in great detail, this is just fascinating!

Great book

If you could sum up Steve Jobs in three words, what would they be?

Think Different!

What was one of the most memorable moments of Steve Jobs?

All of it.

Any additional comments?

Great to hear what Apple was and is all about. People always say it is expensive and other OS and Smart devices are better an cheaper in price -but there is a reason why...

Excellent!

Narration had to be listen to at 1.25. I enjoyed the entire book "cover to cover"! A wonderful look into Jobs' life journey personally and professionally, and the profound impact he made in the world even after his death. I highly recommend this book.

"The man, the madness, the genius"

I loved it! I found it fascinating and just wonderful! Extremely well written. The narrator was superb. Mr. Isaacson is an excellent researcher. I learned things about Steve Jobs and that I would have never learned until I listened to the book. There is no doubt that he suffered from "mental illness"but, what can you do when the illness is eclipsed by genius and wakefulness? I have never read about anyone so utterly fascinating and complex as Steve Jobs. I went away appreciating and just being awed by this credible visionary. I didn't know whether to worship him or hate him.I think a little of both. The best part was when this man who was extremely hard to please; acknowledged how beautiful and smart his wife was, after 20 years of marriage. And how when coming face to face with his mortality he was humbled. But, still didn't leave this world quietly. I appreciate this book so much more than I realize was possible. And I have a newfound respect for " Apple products" and Mr. Jobs. Excellent, excellent, and again excellent!

Its about Jobs everything had to be awesome

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Bozo or Awesome

Any additional comments?

This audio book had the trifecta - The subject, The Author and The Narrator - All were great and awesome.

The book took me thru the journey of liking, disliking, liking and disliking and liking ... .Jobs through out the chapters. Jobs life as described seem to be a lesson of what not to do and what to do. It was entertaining like a movie, educating and informative with facts and trivia. Many a times I would just start laughing. I actually miss not listening to it.

Steve Jobs - The man, the myth, the prick. Listen!

This book seems to address Job's quirks not to make fun of him, but to explain his everyday view of the world. At the end of this book you will both love and hate Jobs, not because he was a legend that changed the world forever, not because he could be cut throat.. because he was human, driven, and imperfect. This is not a Job's creation book, and it is not an ode to greatness, it is a picture of Job. I have to admit, anyone could have done what he did... but nobody did, and that makes him a giant! The book is a great listen, and anyone entertaining the idea of understanding a mind balancing contradictions should love this book.

Good

This review process its dumb. i wish i could just put stars. I'm not a writer.

you really feel like you know Jobs at the end

the books gets into the little details and nitty gritty stories sometimes to a fault but the result is that when you finished you really feel like you know and somewhat understand the man Jobs was.

Simply Fantastic Book!

A fantastic book from start to finish that combines history, fantasy and the future! Genius revealed!!

iLearned something

If you could sum up Steve Jobs in three words, what would they be?

Outlandish, perfectionistic, realisitically-unrealisitic.

What did you like best about this story?

The story cannot be disected. It is a whole story or it is no story.

Which scene was your favorite?

Any of the "you are an idiot" or "this is crap" stories.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I really enjoyeed the sense of passion and that evoked a spirit of excitement within me.