Options : The Secret Life of Steve Jobs

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 that way." Fake Steve the political hobnobber: "I can see why they keep Nancy Pelosi under wraps. Wacky as a dime watch." Fake Steve quoting friend/musician/philosopher Bono on road etiquette: "Tink about dat next toim yer cuttin off some bloke and you don't know who it is, right? Could be Jay-sus. Or Boutros Boutros-Ghali or sumfin." And on, yes, himself: "Geniuses have feelings, too." In the tradition of Thank You for Smoking and in the spirit of The Onion , Options is a novelistic sendup and takedown of Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and Washington, D.C., as viewed by a central character who exists, to his immense self-satisfaction, at the crossroads of all three worlds: "It's like in one of those movies where a guy realizes he's got telekinetic powers and it's just too bad if he doesn't want them, he's got them. Likewise, I have this gift. It's who I am." 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 that way." Fake Steve the celebrity hobnobber: "I like Bono. He's the only person I know who's more self-absorbed than I am." Options is the book that had the critics howling—with laughter: "A voice for our own digital age....Mac-slappingly funny."—Newsweek.com "Hilarious."— New York Times "There's a laugh-out-loud moment on nearly each one of the book's pages."— Wall Street Journal "Wickedly funny."— San Francisco Chronicle A parody of Silicon Valley culture chronicles the struggles, triumphs, celebrity encounters, political hobnobbing, and counterintuitive management philosophy of Fake Steve Jobs, in a fictional memoir NL-ZmNBD Prologue 1; Part One Trouble in Jobs Land 5; Part Two Dark Night of the Steve 93; Part Three Enlightenment 195; Epilogue 245.;Welcome to the mind & amp;mdash;to the world & amp;mdash;of Fake Steve Jobs.