Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Sun Tzu: The Art of War by Sun Tzu

10 reviews

merin13's review

challenging dark informative slow-paced

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Colonisation, Death, Violence, Murder, Slavery, Torture, Blood, and Gore

How to be a general

classical_learner's review

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

Excellent staple in the art of war, and the echoes of this document's consequence can be well-appreciated in many other instances in history. Great prep for this summer's Institute for the Study of War seminars, and fascinating to contrast with Clausewitz's On War (whom I think does a better job of blending tactics and strategy, the science and art of war, respectively). 
Only mildly to severely traumatized to learn from the helpfully thorough commentators that war manuals (such as this) are neary indistinguishable from sex manuals of the time as the subjects were approached in the same way.

Interesting things I'm left to ponder:
The number nine in Chinese culture is used to convey infinity.
Make decisions based on the terrain you are fighting in.
To reinforce something means to weaken something else.

For the record, I listened to the 2004 Minford translation audio with commentary from Raver, Porter, and Rasovsky.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Sexual content

tinyjude's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

Very interesting piece of information. Useful for writers of fantasy and sci-fi genres too. Also the classical illustrations throughout the book were absolutely gorgeous.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, and Violence

rosamaria's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal death

iammmartina_'s review against another edition

inspiring reflective fast-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Violence

Minor: Animal death

another_dahlia's review

informative fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, War, and Fire/Fire injury

Pretty practical advice for waring with people. Feels like a list.

annapox's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

0.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Animal death, and War

saturnsmoons's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

this was quite informative and i loved the moral of how we should avoid war and how to fight it if we must. it was also quite fun because it developed on the psychological aspects of it and how it effects the consequences of warfare and insubordination. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Violence

Minor: Death

juliaisnotalright's review against another edition

dark informative

1.25

I’m not at war with someone nor am I a general that needs to fight against someone. 

But overall some parts were kind of interesting and I got to know the basics of winning a war, so if you need to win a war gimme a ring and I’ll help u .

But most parts were boring af 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

thewordsdevourer's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

a seminal treatise on military strategy whose seeming simplicity belies its remarkable sense and wisdom. the art of war also provides a great, concise--though a lil dense--summary to the basics of warfare, esp in the eastern canon. im happy i only picked this back up after like 4 yrs of incompletion, for if i had finished this earlier, i wouldnt get or appreciate it as much (w/ that said, thank you, the poppy war). nevertheless, this particular published edition does leave quite a lot to be desired in terms of production: there were formatting errors, countless glaring typos, and inaccuracies in the picture credits. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Violence