To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History by Lawrence LevyMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I received this book as one of the free Kindle books available through IHG's Rewards Club.
This was a surprisingly entertaining read about Levy's relationship with Steve Jobs and his role at Pixar. It has been a long time since I have seen any of the Pixar movies, but Finding Nemo was an enormous influence on my life, so I guess I owe a lot of what's happened in my life to Pixar. This book has made me want to go back and watch some of the movies again (or some for the first time).
I don't know if I ever realized Jobs owned Pixar, and since I'm not much of a movie person, didn't realize Pixar made a lot of the movies that it did. This book does a great job in making you appreciate all of the care and thought that went into these movies, and the direction Levy goes after leaving Pixar goes a long way in explaining 1) why he was successful in marrying the creative and business aspects of Pixar and 2) how he was able to write this book in a way that makes you care about the people. I'm a cautious skeptic when it comes to books on spiritualism and meditation and there is a taste of that at the end of the book, but Levy doesn't really use this book to promote this strongly, which I appreciated.
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