Highly Recommended: Options by the Fake Steve Jobs

For the first time since I moved to the East Coast, I’m disappointed I no longer live in the Silicon Valley.

That’s because Daniel Lyons, the person behind the highly popular Fake Steve Jobs blog and author of the book, Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, is only doing a West Coast book tour — including a reading at the center of the anti-Apple universe: Microsoft (The Borg to Fake Steve fans).

According to reporter Carolyn Johnson in today’s Boston Globe article, “The iPhony,”

After over a year of psuedonymously skewering “Beastmaster” Bill Gates and the “Faceberg” who founded Facebook, Lyons was outed by The New York Times in August as the writer of the blog that has become a must-read among the technorati for its acid tongue-in-cheek take on how the real founder of Apple Inc. might view the world – and the members of the media who are watching him.

I had the chance to read Options over the weekend.

Simply put, it’s terrific. Ok, it’s hilarious — to the point where my husband and son kept asking, “What *are* you reading?” — because I couldn’t stop laughing.

The conversations and events are so close to real life you can picture everything happening, including the pot-induced conversations with Larry Ellison, the Hillary Clinton donation shakedown at a tony Silicon Valley fundraising meeting, and Bono giving away his custom iPod to a homeless person.

So Dan, did you get to meet the Beastmaster himself or is that classified?