nerdybookster 's review for:

The Analects of Confucius by Confucius

4.0

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This was very good. Some of it is definitely irrelevant by today's standards (China no longer has a monarchy for one), but a good deal of the actual maxims can be translated to the modern era and used. Quite a few of them in fact. I loved how randomly interspersed were stories from other people and Confucius that seemed to have nothing to do with anything. They either have no point or it is so well hidden only a proper genius will understand. I am going to look for more books about Confucius, the Analects, and culture in general. Can't wait to read more! This one got a 4/5 and took me 3 days to read.