The Art of War
Ratings264
Average rating3.7
this book is always labelled as “you need to read this once in your lifetime!!” so i did and it's ok? It's just telling you how war works. Idk how to rate it so i won't but idk.. it's nothing special to me unless i'm missing the point of the book
Would probably be more interesting if I was preparing for actual war. As a piece of historic literature, it was interesting.
My 3 star rating is not because it is good or bad, but just because it is. I ended up reading this all because I had heard references to it in a number of shows and therefore asked about it. The response was to hand me this book.
Works brilliantly as a guide for playing Magic: The Gathering strangely enough.
An interesting read. I can see why this is a classic. Some of it seems like common sense and other parts are very informative.
Simple and clear war guidelines. Not sure why it became a business guide.
What I like most about this book is how relevant the strategies are despite being written thousands of years ago and how it promotes attack mode as the last resort of defence.
It's a classic, I know. But I didn't find it very enjoyable. The fact that every chapter starts with “Sun Tzu says” surely didn't help. Like we get it, the guy wrote the manual, stop with the repetition already.
It's a short book, with each chapter focusing on a different aspect of warfare, and providing wisdom on strategy, tactics, and leadership. The main point is that using deception is what achieves victory.
Outside of select few fields, I think we've grown past this as humanity. I hope, at least. We should be aiming for collaboration, not war.
4.0 ★
i was kinda bored and came across this book in audio form, and here we are. this was great, i'm glad i learned more about war. found it quite amusing that for sun tzu there were only 5 types of everything, and he's right
