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Summary: eternal
Review: This book cannot be adequately evaluated or appreciated in a single reading or even ten. It is the attempt to relate the life-experience of a man who was super-human by today's standards. Read it. Wait a year. Read it again. Repeat process as necessary. This book can help you deal with any situation life can throw at you, if you can comprehend the content and apply it properly.
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Summary: The Book of Five Rings
Review: I thought this book was very deep and spiritual, in fact I use some of the idealogies which are contained in this book with my daily outlook on life. This book has opened/reawakened my true-self, moreover it has made me appreciate my surroudings in a 360 degrees perspective. Furthermore, I apperciate life and what I have got and what I can give back in a positive way from reading this book!
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Summary: Invaluable and Timeless
Review: I have read this book twice. Once because the subject matter interests me, and once because you have to read it twice to even begin to grasp it. I think the translation by Victor Harris allows you to take some of the deeper philosophical lessons out of the book, but doesn't leave so much of the technical aspects in that you get confused. I think this book is accessible to any reader, and still has its value as a great classic. I highly recommend it to anybody...
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Summary: Victor Harris' translation is best
Review: For serious students of Japanese swordsmanship, Victor Harris' translation is best. Captures the essence of the meaning of technical concepts best.
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Summary: The book is good, the translation is not...
Review: Musashi's words are great but the translation is not so good. There are misinterpretations of the meaning of the text because it is not translated from any experience with Japanese swordsmanship and the special technical vocabulary of swordsmanship. Plus the author includes part of Yagyu Munenori's (another master swordsman) text in it. It is not focused but rather confused. It includes both to make the book more marketable. There are better and more accurate translations out there.
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Summary: A must-have.
Review: I have read this book twice, once looking at it from a martial artist's view, and second as a businessman. It is a must have for not only businessmen and martial artists, but for all. Strategies for life and all its aspects can be interpreted from this book, though it may be difficult to do so. A philosophical and deep view on the gears of life and how to run it with ease.
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Summary: Genius uncovered?
Review: A great work, not much to comment on realy, im not sure how a review of this book in less than 1000 words could do it justice, by far. if you like it try reading Eiji yoshikawas fictional about the life of musashi miyamoto.
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Summary: A good book.
Review: I read it after I heard a song called "Sun and Steel" that was based on the story and I liked it. It was kind of short, however.
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Summary: Wrong info is posted
Review: you listed : "Yagyu Munenori (Translator) " He had nothing to do with this book, I think it must be a typo.FYI JD
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Summary: A must-own for the businessperson & martial artist
Review: If you are in business or martial arts, this classic isn't just a must-read, it's a must-read-at-least-once-a-year. The text itself is short- it could feasibly be read in one or two sittings- but you won't want to read it that fast. In those short paragraphs Musashi has packed so much wisdom that it'll take you years to really absorb it. You'll be a better person for having read it.
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