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341. Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi 10/23/09
342. The Art of War by Sun Tzu 10/24/09
343. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 10/24/09
344. Wittgenstein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard 10/24/09
345. Adieu by Honoré de Balzac 10/25/09 341. Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi 10/23/09
342. The Art of War by Sun Tzu 10/24/09
343. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 10/24/09
344. Wittgenstein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard 10/24/09
345. Adieu by Honoré de Balzac 10/25/09 #51: I've only read 12 of those! Good thing I have another 7 years to go, although I don't think I will ever read The Art of War or Plato's Republic. 218: I entirely agree. The dimensions felt right for The Art of War. If I recall I even declared that book a triumph somewhere here. 216: Those dimension could be annoying for most books.
HOWEVER:
The Art of War has the same dimensions, and I really like it. The tall narrowness feels scroll-like, or otherwise archaic, and for that particular book, it feels just right to me. ... Adams - David McCullough
Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville
The Federalist Papers - Hamilton and Madison
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves
A Manual for writers - Turabian
-- Strunk and White's Manual of Style
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
How to Win ... ... also his Treatise on Logic.
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Analects of Confucius
Edited to add: The Art of War, by Sun Tzu.
(Some touchstones led to incorrect books or authors, so I omitted them.) ... read a few books on strategy and tactics. The operational level is often omitted for some reason.
The obvious ones are The Art of War by Sun-Tzu, which lays down the basic rules of the harsh game, and Clausewitz's On War (a German copy still lies unread on my bookshelf).
My interest ... ... Cultural Studies
38. Skinny Bitch - Nonfiction: On Health
39. All the Rage - Comics
40. Slumberland - Novel
41. The War of Art - Nonfiction: On Writing
42. Getting Started as a Freelance Writer - Nonfiction: On Writing
43. What Moves At the Margin - Nonfiction: Essays
44. Bird ... ... for my 10 hour round trip ride to Tupelo--$7
Mafia Summer-perfect light, summer read
War and Peace
Art of War
4 novels by Ernest Hemingway
Blue Blood
... know not - am I my brother's keeper? (KJV Old Testement, Genesis)
All warfare is based on deception. (Sun Tzu, The Art of War)
To the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. (Melville, Moby Dick)
Ma ... ... ica
344 Social, labor, welfare, and related law The clean water act TMDL program
355 Military science The art of war
362 Social welfare problems and services The glass castle
363 Other social problems and services Dark Tide: The great boston molasses ... ... do you own the most books by?
Howard Lovecraft (17)
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
Tie between The Art of War and Absalom, Absalom! (both 2)
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
What should they have ended with?
4) What ... Sun Tzu's The Art of War appeared in Firefly.... I'm sure that one has made countless other appearances. ... I wish they'd leave us alone.
I'll try to appease them by saying Guns, Germs and Steel, the Oxford English Dictionary, The Art of War, Plato's Republic, Escape From Slavery by Francis Bok (more for the humans' benefit), The Outline of History volumes 1 and 2 by H.G. Wells, The Audacity ... ... I wish they'd leave us alone.
I'll try to appease them by saying Guns, Germs and Steel, the Oxford English Dictionary, The Art of War, Plato's Republic, Escape From Slavery by Francis Bok (more for the humans' benefit), The Outline of History volumes 1 and 2 by H.G. Wells, The Audacity ... ... of working in that field, you should make that little book your bible. Arden compares it to no less than Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether the comparison is justified or not.
I rated it: ★★★½
Page count to date: 2,397
Edited for ... (Double post) ... Bible (and how much more beautiful King James' version is, compared to the modern renditions! Will get this one day)
- The Art of War
- Anne of Green Gables
- Emma, Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice
- Perrault's Fairy tales (So exceptionally good, I had to buy one :) )
I've ... A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy ... This leaves me with:
# 46 This Gaming Life by Jim Rossignol
# 47 Soldier's Heart by Elizabeth Samet
# 48 The Art of War by Sun-Tzu
# 49 Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
One more book to go and I've met my goal! >7 To be honest, I think the policy should be a "we know it when we'll see it" kind of thing.
There was the Art of War guy. He was annoying and would have put his book on anything Sun-Tzu related he could have suggested. And that was annoying - because it was clear he probably hadn't read ... The Art of War by Sun Tzu
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli
Room with a View by E.M. Forster ... Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
The Art of War
Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen
Health & Wellness
Eat This, Not That
The Best Life Diet
Quantum Wellness
Breathing the master key ... ... in the kitchen. Sorry about that, photo will be forthcoming.
Yes, I think I should put the naval history close to The Art of War but does than mean that the Chinese dictionaries and other Chinese language books need to be close?
You're correct in saying that the book cases are in ... 27. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
28. The Years of Harvest by Stan Turner ... is probably most often ascribed to Someone Said.
I have heard of both and know that I have On War; I may have The Art of War but can't bet on it.
Robert ... Here/Stranger in a Strange Land
The Big Girls/Little Girl Lost
A Welfare Mother/Poor Little Rich Girl
The Art of War/A Separate Peace
Under the Volcano/The Ascent of Everest
Among the Thugs/The Peaceable Kingdom ... I think it's a little better this way for now...I dread the day that the author that mass spam-friended any of us with The Art of War to promote his book gets his official day.
I like "On This Day" - I've added some CK in my day! Glad to see it put to good use.
ETA - 8, if you ... ... following:
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Illiad
The Odyssey
The Analects
The Oresteia
The Oedipus Trilogy
The Art of War
The Bhagavad Ghita
The Aeneid
The Pillow Book
Beowulf
The Rubaiyat
The Divine Comedy
The Caterbury Tales
The Prince
Don Quixote
P ... I went to a friends of the library sale and came back with a sack full. Some of the notable ones Desert Queen, The Art of War, The Chronicles of Narnia, Lost Nation, The Rule of Four, A Simple Plan, A Lesson before Dying, White Noise, Thunderstruck and the list goes on. ... appaloosaman listing this as one of his favorites in another thread.
Noting his initiating entry here, I'd like to uphold The Art of War as well. In addition to its stunning design, it is also an incredibly interesting read. ... introduced himself and in the process raised a question in my mind. Personally, I have several copies of Sun Tzu's The Art of War in my library, each one acquired for a different reason - often because a particular edition offered something unique in its presentation.
So, does ... ... see a group of Muslims try to get a specialty license plate for themselves in Florida.
Lunar, you encourage me to read The Art of War. I would add the recent edition of Machiavelli's Art of War translated and edited, with commentary, by Christopher Lynch, from the University of Chicago Press. I picked it up after seeing a number of good reviews and found it very interesting. The commentary is valuable because in a number of ... ... the compliment Venus. I'm going to try to be less annoying in my debating. I recently got around to reading Sun Tzu's Art of War and one thing I found valuable was the insight that you should not completely box in your opponent and that they should be given a way out. I think that wisdom ... The Art of War (not) by George W. Bush
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Bill Clinton
The Waste Land by Hollywood film-makers
Emily Post's Etiquette by Larry the Cable Guy
The Devil Wears Prada by Antonin Scalia ... and Other Plays, Euripides
6. The Histories, Herodotus
7. The History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
8. The Art of War, Sun-Tzu I got one from Sonshi and ignored it - he does seem to be targeting those of us that already own The Art of War. Given the comments back and forth, he does appear to be a social guy - answering and asking questions.
Seems more like a "psst, FYI on the friending etiquette..." kind of thing ... ... Into You
320 – The Prince
338- Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
342 - The Federalist Papers
355 – The Art of War
364 – The Gangs of New York
382 – A Time for Tea: Travels Through China and India in Search of Tea
387 – Cessna Integrated Flight Training Syste ... I bought two books, but astonishingly, not for myself *gasp*!
One of my Chinese friend's favorite philosophical books is The Art Of War by Sun Tzu, so I got him that as a joke present, since although I believe he already has one, I don't think he has one in English (typical language purist). Pl ... ... Maula by Robert Silverberg, The Worm Turns by Gregory Benford, Send Them Flowers by Walter Jon Williams, Art of War by Nancy Kress and Muse of Fire by Dan Simmons. (Alright, for those who've read it- I am sort of reading the book hop-skip. I do that with al ... ... far more successes than failures. This morning I received my two latest new FS books - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and The Art of War. I was immediately struck by how beautiful the binding was for The Art of War - quarter bound in black buckram and gold crushed silk blocked with ... ...
TL-- The UFO Phenomenon
TR-- Photography of Natural Things
TT-- Flintknapping
TX-- LCW Cookbook
U -- The Art of War
UA - In Time of Emergency
UG -- Castle
VM How Wooden Ships are Built
**Z -- Dreams: A book of Symbols
So that's 78/220. 1/3 of the way ... 79. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Yes, I really did read the translated version. It's not very long and actually very interesting. ... so that Americans are baffled by Tolstoy's Война и миръ or Sun-zi's 孫子兵法 instead of War and Peace and The Art of War?
ETA- Oops, Tim said the same thing (but more quickly!)while I was typing. I have started The Art of War by Sun Tzu today. The Art of War was actually one of the first books I bought in English (during an English summer course in Oxford). The interplay of The Art of War (500 BCE), the actual events (200 CE), the commenting on these events in the additions to The Art of War and their use in the Three Kingdoms (1300 CE ... Art Of War - Nancy Kress
Larrikin Wind - Terry Dowling
All Seated On the Ground - Connie Willis I've now also completed The Art of War by Sun Tzu.
Total: 54. ... without strategy who takes opponents lightly will inevitably become the captive of others."
Just a few gems from Sun Tzu The Art of War. Still true today. If only someone who mattered took this stuff seriously. ... spring to mind -- dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment - (Penguin Designer Classics) is my latest addition, as well as The Art of War: The New Illustrated Edition of the Classic Text by Sun Tzu. The Dostoyevsky book has been designed in the true spirit of the original -- it is completely ... ... read him. I suspect this reflected the amount of reading I had done since on the period's tactical and strategic ideas.
Sun Tzu I read after I read Clausewitz but before I read Jomini - in part because I found James Clavell's edition and I had enjoyed his novels about Hong Kong and China, ... The Art of War by Sun Tzu ... the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
Le Comte de Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Harriet the Spy - Louise Fitzhugh
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
A Room of One's Own - V. Woolf
Lolita - Nabokov
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
The Witching Hour - Anne Rice
The Joy of Cooking - Romba ... I keep The Art of War in my bag. It's a miniature and whenever I'm confronted with a situation I'm not sure how to deal with, out it comes. It won't necessarily have anything apropos (but sometimes it will), but it will cause me to think coolly and strategically, to start looking at problems from ... ... by David Anthony Durham
Pride of Carthage by David Anthony Durham
Bright of the Sky by Kay Kenyon
War of the Oaks by Emma Bull
Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
I love reading sci-fi, but I'm not a die-hard fan so I'm unsure what's good and what' ... ... it blew my mind and I wanted to savor it and each little bit I read gave me so much to chew on). Also, I carry a miniature The Art of War around in my purse that I only read when waiting in lines or find myself caught without a book.
About a year ago I decided to read one book at a time, so I ... ... of Hitler's SS (Classic Military History) -READ IT
Military Blunders: The How and Why of Military Failure- READ IT
The Art of War
Speer: The Final Verdict
Night Letters: Inside Wartime Afghanistan
General
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - READ IT
Politics and Passion: T ... Heroines: Demigoddess, prima dona,movie star
The Courage to be Rich
Achilles: His Armour
The Art of War
Breakfast at the Victory Sleeping with a Sunflower
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Rising Sun by John Toland
The Sun and Moon Guide to Eating Through Literature and the Arts
Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon Well, I would certainly have to recommend the Art of War, by Sun Tzu. Its military philosophy/strategy, not fiction, but its a classic of the genre. On my shelves at home, I have The Machiavellian's Guide to Womanizing next to The Art of War. ... on
4) Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard
5. Under the Tuscan Sun by Francis Mayes
and for good measure
The Art of War by Sun Tzu ... a couple that come to mind.
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
... of Vienna
several readings on chemical weapons including J B S Haldane's Callinicus (defense of chemical weapons) and The Art of War for next week :)
Three classes on war this semester! Ah, how I love my diplomatic history major. ... Truth and Ivanhoe, although it's been a while since I read either one. Not fair, you having both the Prince and the Art of War when I can't seem to get my hands on either one. ;^)
I can't see Narnia/cecilyk's (spoilsport :P)
Rappin' Ronnie Reagan/jadziadax: Sorceror's Stone and Chamber ... Someone has combined Sun Tzu with Lao Tzu. Please help. :/ Man, I wish that L.T. would lock down the "combine" function ... some moron has combined the Tao Te Ching into (Art of War author) Sun Tzu's page, and Lao Tzu shows up with no books!
I'm not clear on the art of combining/separating authors, but this needs to be addressed!
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