Just like there are ideas whose time has come, I think in someone’s lifetime there are books who’s time has come. A single book, read at it’s appropriate time, would hit them the hardest instead of if it was read at some other time.
Now that I’m writing and designing apps and playing around with ideas, the steve jobs’ biography is just tingling some part of my brain which it didn’t before when I read it couple years back, when I didn’t have any personality, no skills, no body of work.