Saeed Nahian's Reviews > Steve Jobs

Story of the man who put a dent in the universe.Absolutely fascinating - and horrifying. And this is the authorized biography! Steve Jobs may have been a design and marketing genius, but how his entourage suffered.

Isaacson does an excellent job on Jobs though there is a hole in the heart of the book as Jobs' adoptive (OK, he hated it when they were referred to like that) parents disappear from the story far too soon. Clara and Paul Jobs seem to be the only people Steve ever loved unconditionally and yet they are curiously absent from much of the book - the reader learns (in a few short sentences) that Clara died of cancer and Paul just disappears from the book despite Steve's insistence that Paul was "a great man". Obviously, both had already died before Isaacson began his interviews, yet it would seem like these two (who must have loved their son not wisely, but too well) held the key to why Steve had such poor relationships with everyone else.

Nevertheless, a quick and very interesting read - my sympathy to anyone who ever came into contact with him! And my gratitude to him for his extraordinary and uncompromising vision.