Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a Parody

by Fake Steve Jobs, Daniel Lyons, Julia Heaberlin

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306815842
• ISBN13: 9780306815843
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

A witty and hilarious book!!!

Probably unlike most people, I heard about this book before I went to the fake Steve's blog. The writer is really smart and funny. You will definitely LOL!

Fantastic

This is one of the better books I've read in a long time and I highly encourage anyone interested in the cult of Apple to read it. A long time follower of the fantastic blog, Fake Steve Jobs has an excellent style and great sense of humor.

Incredibly funny book

As Windows user familiar with Apple products and the Apple story, I found this book to be very funny. It is best read in one sitting, and I found Fake Steve Job's extensive use of sarcasm to be very funny. This book is a must read for the geek.

FINALLY

Steve Jobs is a brilliant but insane/crazy genius. Very typical. Brilliant people are often nutty. But you gotta love the guy... This book in parody form captures the madness and is truly hysterical.

It Seems Too Real to be Fake!

Looking for the perfect gift for the Apple fan in your life? If so, your search is over. Get them a copy of Options by Fake Steve Jobs, AKA Daniel Lyons. If you're not already aware, Lyons has been writing a blog called The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs for quite awhile and it features some of the best sarcasm and wit on the planet. He leveraged that fame and fortune to write Options, which takes a fictitious and hilarious look at the Apple stock option backdating scandal. The Fake Steve blog is a treat to read but I couldn't help wonder whether the style and approach would get old in a book length work. Boy, was I wrong. Daniel Lyons is a genius. He describes events in such fascinating detail that you not only feel you're there but you assume they actually occurred! My personal favorite is the point towards the end of the book when Jobs meets with Yoko Ono to discuss reselling The Beatles library on iTunes. I won't spoil it by divulging too much here but I laughed out loud more than once while picturing this meeting in my head. There's also a funny twist to the ending, which again, I won't spill the beans on here. Still not sold? Read this piece from the back cover and tell me it doesn't hit the nail on the head: "Sometimes I feel like a great chef who has devoted his entire life to monastic study of the art of cooking. I've gathered the finest ingredients, built the most advanced kitchen and prepared the most exquisite meal. So perfect, so delicious, so extraordinary. More astounding than any meal ever created. Yet each day I stand in my window and watch 97% of the world walk past my restaurant into the McDonald's across the street."