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bookwormjimmy 's review for:
Steve Jobs: Insanely Great
by Jessie Hartland
Biography of Steve Jobs in a byte-sized graphic novel format.
For a graphic novel biography aimed at young readers, I felt that this did a great job of highlighting many of Steve Jobs' important moments in life (compared to [b:Steve Jobs|11084145|Steve Jobs|Walter Isaacson|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1511288482s/11084145.jpg|16005831] by [a:Walter Isaacson|7111|Walter Isaacson|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1192222433p2/7111.jpg]). From his childhood growing up in a foster family to his reality distortion field as a boss at Apple to everything in between. Considering this is a abridged version of his life, much of the drama has been lightly touched on or ignored completely. Most of the family drama is forgotten about halfway through the book, and the ending was rather abrupt after his death due to cancer. The intensity of Jobs' interactions with partners and employees is also only barely reflected upon.
My only issue with the book was the typesetting. Pretty much every single line of text was handwritten in, whether in print or cursive script, which made some pages a little hard to read. When the text gets spread across the binding of the page, that can also be annoying. Other than these minor gripes, the book serves as an excellent introduction to the man who helped create Apple, though much more reading will need to be done to truly understand the facets of his personality and to learn exactly what type of legacy he left on the world. Regardless, there's much inspiration to be gleaned from this story.
For a graphic novel biography aimed at young readers, I felt that this did a great job of highlighting many of Steve Jobs' important moments in life (compared to [b:Steve Jobs|11084145|Steve Jobs|Walter Isaacson|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1511288482s/11084145.jpg|16005831] by [a:Walter Isaacson|7111|Walter Isaacson|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1192222433p2/7111.jpg]). From his childhood growing up in a foster family to his reality distortion field as a boss at Apple to everything in between. Considering this is a abridged version of his life, much of the drama has been lightly touched on or ignored completely. Most of the family drama is forgotten about halfway through the book, and the ending was rather abrupt after his death due to cancer. The intensity of Jobs' interactions with partners and employees is also only barely reflected upon.
My only issue with the book was the typesetting. Pretty much every single line of text was handwritten in, whether in print or cursive script, which made some pages a little hard to read. When the text gets spread across the binding of the page, that can also be annoying. Other than these minor gripes, the book serves as an excellent introduction to the man who helped create Apple, though much more reading will need to be done to truly understand the facets of his personality and to learn exactly what type of legacy he left on the world. Regardless, there's much inspiration to be gleaned from this story.