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Monday, August 22, 2011

First post. . .

I'm Reading Art of War by: Sun Tzu Also known as the book that was literally written on scrolls all the way in 2nd century B.C. Today it is still one of the most popular books for military personnel and war strategist around the world. This book has 13 chapters all covering the basics of war strategy and the ideals of generalship. I've only read about 6 chapters, but so far the book has been incredibly interesting to read. The book does get very confusing because it’s translated from 1000 year old scrolls by wise Chinese generals. And that was only the process to translate it to simplified Chinese. The process continues from this point to have the book translated into English. Which has left quite a lot of errors still in the text because the Chinese language does not translate fluidly into the English language? I've read about 277 pages in the last couple of days and that’s excluding the 256 page intro to the book. That has to be the longest intro I have ever read in any book by a long shot. I'll post more about the next chapter I’m reading tomorrow. It’s called Maneuvering it should be the best one yet.

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