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I found the book particularly interesting becaue of Jobs's difficult personality, narcissism, and perfectionism. It made him and what he did much more realistic than a more whitewashed approach would be.
Although I do find people's extremely negative reaction to Jobs as he's portrayed in the book to be overblown. I wouldn't describe him as nice, especially, and he can be kind of a jerk and somewhat narcissistic. But not more so than many other artists and business-owners.
I think it's relevant in this context that most of the people he's yelling at are senior people for whom he's made hundreds of millions of dollars, or suppliers from whom he's buying millions of dollars worth of supplies.
But my favorite parts in the book - and this does reflect well on Jobs - are those parts where someone calls him on something. I.e., when he's meeting with the CEO of Corning and starts ranting about something and the CEO says, "Shut up, Steve, and let me tell you about science." (And then goes on to explain that they've had this recipe for something called "Gorilla Glass" for 40 years and haven't been able to find a use for it...).
Or the bit where Jobs is focused on a particular floppy disk manufacturer for the already-late Mac, and his senior managers are skeptical that the manufacturer can deliver, so they secretly have another manufacturer work on the drive as well and are able to seamlessly switch to that supplier when the other one ends up failing to deliver.
(And who know that it took a year and a lot of consultations to design a 1.4 meg floppy drive in 1982?)
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