The Bite in the Apple
A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
An intimate look at the life of Steve Jobs by the mother of his first child providing rare insight into Jobs's formative, lesser-known years.
Steve Jobs was a remarkable man who wanted to unify the world through technology. For him, the point was to set people free with tools to explore their own unique creativity. Chrisann Brennan knows this better than anyone. She met him in high school, at a time when Jobs was passionately aware that there was something much bigger to be had out of life, and that new kinds of revelations were within reach.
The Bite in the Apple is the very human tale of Jobs's ascent and the toll it took, told from the author's unique perspective as his first girlfriend, co-parent, friend, and—like many others—object of his cruelty. Brennan writes with depth and breadth, and she doesn't buy into all the hype. She talks with passion about an idealistic young man who was driven to change the world, about a young father who denied his own child, and about a man who mistook power for love.
Chrisann Brennan's intimate memoir provides the reader with a human dimension to Jobs' myth. Finally, a book that reveals a more real Steve Jobs.
Customer Reviews
Good Read
Good read, but one sided. I recommend this book.
Not about Steve
If you want to read about Chrisann Brennan and her life, this is the book for you. Yes, she writes about a Steve Jobs, but nearly as much as about herself. If you want to read about Steve, there are many better choices.
Poor Steve....
Seems so easy to publish a book demonizing someone who is dead and has no voice.
This book is somewhat engaging, mostly because it gives some insight to the 1970’s California scene, which Is depressing.
Ms. Brennan contradicts herself from one sentence to the next. Does she like this person or not? Why does she seem to stay - for YEARS - around people she does not like and in situations that she questions?
And to keep her baby for how long before she decides to permanently keep her? That’s just strange and shows a really vague personality.
I’d like to hear Mr. Jobs side.