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    <![CDATA[A pitch-perfect riff on Silicon Valley culture that follows the daily struggles, triumphs, and awesome celebrity encounters of Fake Steve Jobs. <p> Welcome to the mind, to the world of Fake Steve Jobs. Fake Steve the counterintuitive management guru: &quot;Obviously we can't <em>literally</em> put our employees' lives at risk. But we have to make them feel that way.&quot; Fake Steve the political hobnobber: &quot;I can see why they keep Nancy Pelosi under wraps. Wacky as a dime watch.&quot; Fake Steve quoting friend/musician/philosopher Bono on road etiquette: &quot;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.&quot; And on, yes, himself: &quot;Geniuses have feelings, too.&quot; <p> In the tradition of <em>Thank You for Smoking</em> and in the spirit of <em>The Onion</em>, <em>Options</em> 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: &quot;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.&quot;</p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty much what you would expect from a parody about Steve Jobs.  This was a story with no real depth or powerful theme, but fun to read nonetheless.  Daniel Lyons, the real author (his name is not Fake Steve Jobs), began a blog about Fake Steve Jobs a few years ago, and the idea morphed into this....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13656455">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hilarious, witty and amazing.  Read it.  Now.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A pitch-perfect riff on Silicon Valley culture that follows the daily struggles, triumphs, and awesome celebrity encounters of Fake Steve Jobs. <p> Welcome to the mind, to the world of Fake Steve Jobs. Fake Steve the counterintuitive management guru: &quot;Obviously we can't <em>literally</em> put our employees' lives at risk. But we have to make them feel that way.&quot; Fake Steve the political hobnobber: &quot;I can see why they keep Nancy Pelosi under wraps. Wacky as a dime watch.&quot; Fake Steve quoting friend/musician/philosopher Bono on road etiquette: &quot;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.&quot; And on, yes, himself: &quot;Geniuses have feelings, too.&quot; <p> In the tradition of <em>Thank You for Smoking</em> and in the spirit of <em>The Onion</em>, <em>Options</em> 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: &quot;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.&quot;</p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was funny and interesting.  However, it was also annoying and well, annoying.  It was well written and kept my interest, but I also found myself wanting to know what was real and what was fake, and this clouded what I liked about it.<br/><br/>Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple.  He designed ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12113357">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I got this book for David's as a birthday present since we follow the blog &quot;The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs&quot; (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/">http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/</a>) and the guy has some clever writing and funny stuff.  However, the book, although it was well written and had some very funny stuff, was a bit of a n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13545190">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A pitch-perfect riff on Silicon Valley culture that follows the daily struggles, triumphs, and awesome celebrity encounters of Fake Steve Jobs. <p> Welcome to the mind, to the world of Fake Steve Jobs. Fake Steve the counterintuitive management guru: &quot;Obviously we can't <em>literally</em> put our employees' lives at risk. But we have to make them feel that way.&quot; Fake Steve the political hobnobber: &quot;I can see why they keep Nancy Pelosi under wraps. Wacky as a dime watch.&quot; Fake Steve quoting friend/musician/philosopher Bono on road etiquette: &quot;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.&quot; And on, yes, himself: &quot;Geniuses have feelings, too.&quot; <p> In the tradition of <em>Thank You for Smoking</em> and in the spirit of <em>The Onion</em>, <em>Options</em> 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: &quot;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.&quot;</p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anybody who loves Macintosh computers or hates Steve Jobs or is a fan of sarcastic, in-your-face social satire will enjoy this puff-pastry of a book, based on a blog. Could this be the future of publishing? It's a 248-page rant bound between covers and lightly disguised as a novel. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://goodreads.com">http://www.fakest...</a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12100838">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Without a doubt, one of the funniest books I have ever read. This satire of Silicon Valley and Hollywood life was written with precision. There was not a wasted moment or irrelevant section.<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a very crass and over the top satire.  I am not too clued in on the electronics or business world, but it was still hilarious in parts though on the whole it was only okay.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hilarious.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hilarious parady of what Steve Jobs was like during the options scandel a year ago.  I was laughing the whole way through!]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A pitch-perfect riff on Silicon Valley culture that follows the daily struggles, triumphs, and awesome celebrity encounters of Fake Steve Jobs. <p> Welcome to the mind, to the world of Fake Steve Jobs. Fake Steve the counterintuitive management guru: &quot;Obviously we can't <em>literally</em> put our employees' lives at risk. But we have to make them feel that way.&quot; Fake Steve the political hobnobber: &quot;I can see why they keep Nancy Pelosi under wraps. Wacky as a dime watch.&quot; Fake Steve quoting friend/musician/philosopher Bono on road etiquette: &quot;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.&quot; And on, yes, himself: &quot;Geniuses have feelings, too.&quot; <p> In the tradition of <em>Thank You for Smoking</em> and in the spirit of <em>The Onion</em>, <em>Options</em> 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: &quot;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.&quot;</p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Opitons is the same joke over and over again, but its a funny one. This is sort of a Fear and Loathing meets Microserfs.]]></body>
    
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