oPtion$ Book Club: Introductory Post

"America is all about commerce.  That's what America is good at.  Someone is going to figure out a way to create material things and to imbue them with a sense of religious significance.  I don't know how this will happen.  But it will happen, because it needs to happen."

- Krishna Neeb Baba in oPtion$

I'm here to welcome everyone to the PrawfsBlawg book club on "oPtion$," the novel/parody memoir of Apple CEO Steven Jobs, written by Fake Steve Jobs (a.k.a. Daniel Lyons).  We're very excited by the group of book club participants we'll have on hand:

• Michael Dorff, Southwestern Law School
• Darian Ibrahim, University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law
• Renee Jones, Boston College Law School and Corporate Law and Democracy
• David Zaring, Wharton School of Business, Vanderbilt University Law School (visiting), and the Conglomerate
• Daniel Lyons, Forbes Magazine and the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs

I'll also be jumping in with a few posts of my own.  We encourage everyone -- club participants, author, readers -- to join in the comments. 

You can call up all of the posts in the book club by clicking on the "oPtions Book Club" category.  If you'd like some further reading material to get you in the proper spirit, here are some links:

• The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
• "Steve Jobs in a Box" by John Heileman in New York Magazine (aka the "iGod" article)
• Fake Steve's response to Heileman
• Larry Ribstein's Ideoblog posts on Apple and backdating