Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs
Language: English
Published by Grand Central Publishing, 2008
- Softcover
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- Title
- Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs
- Author
- Lyons, Daniel
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0306817411
- ISBN 13
- 9780306817410
“Politically incorrect ... skewers Silicon Valley, with touches of Bonfire of the Vanities, Dilbert, and Revenge of the Nerds” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Welcome to the mind, to the world of Fake Steve Jobs.
- Fake Steve the counterintuitive management guru: “Obviously we can't literally put our employees' lives at risk. But we have to make them feel that way.”
- Fake Steve the political hobnobber: “I can see why they keep Nancy Pelosi under wraps. Wacky as a dime watch.”
- Fake Steve quoting friend/musician/philosopher Bono on road etiquette: “Tink about dat next toim yer cuttin off some bloke and you don't know who it is, right? Could be Jay-sus. Or Boutros Boutros-Ghali or sumfin.”
- And on, yes, himself: “Geniuses have feelings, too.”
In the tradition of Thank You for Smoking and in the spirit of The Onion, Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs is a novelistic sendup and takedown of Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and Washington, D. C., as viewed by a central character who exists, to his immense self-satisfaction, at the crossroads of all three worlds: “It's like in one of those movies where a guy realizes he's got telekinetic powers and it's just too bad if he doesn't want them, he's got them. Likewise, I have this gift. It's who I am.”
“Fake Steve's ruthless inner monologues about those around him ring truer than most nonfiction profiles of tech's movers and shakers.” ―Wall Street Journal
“A funny send-up of Apple's CEO, the go-go culture of Silicon Valley, and the cult of Mac, iPhone, and iPod.” ―Boston Globe
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