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Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson
I don't consider myself an Apple guy at all. I don't use Apple products, I find the iPhone I recently got for work to be frustrating, and I prefer open platforms on a whole. With all of this said, even the biggest computer partisan needs to acknowledge the heights that Steve Jobs reached and how he changed computing for the better.
Isaacson's biography of Jobs largely doesn't pull any punches. He doesn't make Jobs look sympathetic, and takes a reporter's eye view to a very complicated, very interesting subject. Well balanced and very complete, the book covers Jobs for his entire life and treats things extremely fairly.
Overall, this might be long for someone with a limited interest in Jobs, especially given how Apple-history-heavy the book is (as it's near-impossible to extract Jobs from Apple at large), but it's unlikely that any other biography could end up surpassing this anytime soon. As someone who generally hates biographies, I really whipped through this one and fully enjoyed it.
Isaacson's biography of Jobs largely doesn't pull any punches. He doesn't make Jobs look sympathetic, and takes a reporter's eye view to a very complicated, very interesting subject. Well balanced and very complete, the book covers Jobs for his entire life and treats things extremely fairly.
Overall, this might be long for someone with a limited interest in Jobs, especially given how Apple-history-heavy the book is (as it's near-impossible to extract Jobs from Apple at large), but it's unlikely that any other biography could end up surpassing this anytime soon. As someone who generally hates biographies, I really whipped through this one and fully enjoyed it.