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Title: Bill Gates Speaks : Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur by Janet Lowe ISBN: 0-471-29353-9 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 09 October, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (17 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: No Meat To This BooK!
Comment: I like to be told a story. Although the book starts with a good story on how Bill Gates got started, it quickly digresses. This book is an accumulation of facts and boring accounts about Bill Gates and Microsoft. It never gets into the meat of things. I would have liked to have read more about the litigations against Microsoft. Maybe some more about Nescape's lawsuit. It mentions very little about the Antitrust lawsuit that I was looking forward to learning about. Instead we get quotes from Bill Gates that do not enhance the book, but instead interrupt it. The author references websites about Microsoft's and the government's claims about the lawsuit. It's like the author got lazy. Don't waste your money on this book. A very big dissapointment!
Rating: 3
Summary: Nothing "Original" But Still A Good Book for Young Teens
Comment: This is one of a series of books that covers highly successful, highly visible individuals and how they got that way. These books are targeted at school age teens to inspire them to follow their paths for success. The author seems to cover the life stories of Bill Gates and adds quotes where appropriate to boost the storyline. There are occasional segments on subjects related to Gates as shown in the Amazon's "Look in" review. It's an easy read with only 230 pages. If you read any of the other books such as "Gates" or "Hard Drive" you'll get the feeling of reading this book before. Since the work isn't original and seems to heavily reference other books I give it 3 stars. The only question I have is whether the author actual sat down with Bill Gates and talked to him or did she really just go to the library, the Internet, etc. to get info on the book. As a first book on Bill Gates life, it's still a good read for young adults looking to be inspired.
Rating: 2
Summary: It's just a sumary of other books
Comment: It's an easy to read story of Gates, but there's nothing new here. In fact, the whole book is made up of quotes from other books and articles. You can't really tell if they are taken out of context or not. There's just not much original stuff here.
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Title: Hard Drive : Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by James Wallace, Jim Erickson ISBN: 0887306292 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 26 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Bill Gates by Jeanne M. Lesinski ISBN: 082259689X Publisher: Lerner Publications Company Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy by Bill Gates ISBN: 0446675962 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Road Ahead (CD ROM included) by Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter M. Rinearson ISBN: 0140260404 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Gates : How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry--and Made Himself the Richest Man in America by Stephen Manes, Paul Andrews ISBN: 0671880748 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 21 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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