Amazon.com: Customer reviews: The art of war

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Great book; distracting annotations

Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2015

Annotated Kindle edition: the book itself is great and the translation is great, but I would recommend getting a version without annotations - I found them distracting (they are sometimes a bit too opinionated or subjective, which can pull you away from your original interpretation that could be equally right). I think one of the best parts about reading this book is allowing yourself to interpret it on your own first.

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jeschrumpf

Small book that could have been smaller.

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2016

The translations suffered badly. This book is a simple guess of what the Chinese Emporers actually meant. All nuance is gone. And it repeats itself constantly. This book could have been 30 pages and covered the subject. I'm glad I read it. It's a classic but I'm glad I'm done with it and can mark it off my list.

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madu

Great book; distracting annotations

Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2015

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Derrick

Know yourself and know your enemy!

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2016

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Great book! Applying many of these dictums to my business life. This version provides a lot of background about the warring states period. A lot of information is provided about the mystery surrounding Sun-Tzu and the conflicting information from historians about him being an actual person or just a caricature of another general. All in all great book, read it, love it, use it and impart the ideas.

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christianconservative

Just read it so you can say you did.

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2016

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I had to read it because of who wrote it and how long ago it was done. It has obviously been compiled from the old writing, but after one gets into it, it has some real knowledge to impart to the reader. It is not a long book and a neat read.

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