Book Review of "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson

 

Book Review of “Steve Jobs”

Author - Walter Isaacson

How I Came Across This Book:- I have been reading books since the summer of 2018 and in those 5 years of reading, I have read almost all major genres except Biographies and Memoirs. So back on 24 February 2022, I bought Steve Jobs biography written by Walter Isaacson for INR 400. Steve Jobs was one of the best and greatest innovators, leader, and CEOs of all time. Steve Jobs biography written by Walter Isaacson was first published in 2011 in hardcover and then in 2015 in paperback.

     Almost everybody in the present-day world knows that Steve Jobs was the man who made companies like Apple and Pixar, but few of us know about NeXT which is also a company founded by Steve which turned out to be a failure. His habit of being a perfectionist gave us products like the Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, eye-pleasing graphical interfaces for computers etc. in the PC and technology world. He also gave us animated movies like Cars, Toy Story, Monsters Inc., and Finding Nemo.

     Steve Jobs in my view was the first superstar of Silicon Valley. So I always wanted to know more about him and I think reading his biography written by Walter Isaacson is the best to do so.

Front Cover of My Copy of 'Steve Jobs' by Walter Isaacson

Back Cover of My Copy of 'Steve Jobs' by Walter Isaacson

About This Book:- This book is in and out completely based on the life of Steve Jobs. It Starts from the very beginning when Jobs was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs after being abandoned by his biological parents to becoming a superstar of Silicon Valley. Up to his death, we get to know all about his childhood and teenage and adult life. This book is a complete biography.

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     This book opens up on every incident that happened in the life of Steve. This book is filled with immense detail and also shares the perspective of his coworkers, employees, friends and people around him. This biography will help you to know the personality of Jobs and what people around him think about him.

     This book neither overpraises nor defames Steve Jobs. It just allows the reader to decide what he or she thinks about Jobs. This book is filled with incidents where you will think of Jobs as a great man and leader and at some time you will think of him as a jerk, stubborn and short-tempered person.

     Walter Isaacson also shed some light on sensitive incidents from Jobs' life. His relationship with Chrisann and Lisa is one such incident, and you will get Steve’s perspective of the situation and of Chrisann and other people.

     After finishing this book you may have different thoughts on Steve Jobs because on social media we saw him only as the CEO of one of the world's biggest companies but this book shows you Steve as a son, a father, a brother, a husband, a friend and a person. And when you read this book you will surely feel yourself as a part of the journey of an abandoned child who becomes a legend.

Best Things About This Book:-

·        This book is very detailed and written with precision.

·        This book has many photos of Steve Jobs and these photos let you immerse deep down in the book and life of Steve Jobs.

·        This book is segregated into chapters so nicely that you keep on reading without realizing how long you are into it.

·        The cover of this book is simple yet one of the most attractive I have ever seen.

·        The book is filled with many life lessons from Steve Jobs's life.

·        This book is the perfect biography of Steve Jobs in the current market.

Drawbacks of This Book:-

·        The font size is very small.

·        The book is too long and even after the small font size this book is 531 pages long(Indian Subcontinent Paperback Version).

·        The detailing in the book may feel good and engaging sometimes but lousy and boring at many times making the reader lose interest in a few of the chapters.

Conclusion:- we common people after listening to and receiving some social media posts think that achievers in our world are god-like personalities and they achieve greatness because they were meant to. This perception led us to feel inferior to them and we started to think that if we had the abilities and luck to become like them. but after this book, I can say that all these great personalities are humans just like us and they also made mistakes like us, but the difference they make is that they just don’t think about their goals and make plans about them and do nothing. They execute their plans and as a result either they succeed in them or learn something from them. This is a great biography and I will rate it as a ‘Must Read’ and give it a score of 95 out of 100.

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