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Upcoming Series Announcement

[kimberlysteele]

I'm going to be doing a book discussion series on Sun Tzu's The Art of War starting the 16th of March on this blog. I plan on using the book as fodder for various meditations on everything from personal improvement to world events.

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[(Anonymous)]

I’ll join in. Are you going to do Clausewitz too? He gets neglected these days, probably because his book is so much longer than Sun Tzu’s.

—Lady Cutekitten

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[kimberlysteele]

Great suggestion! I'll consider it.

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[(Anonymous)]

I look forward to the book club! I only found JMG recently, but I got a copy of the cosmic doctrine and did the whole thing, reading back. I enjoyed it immensely! I don’t have a lot of people in “real life” who like to read books the way I do.

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[kimberlysteele]

Nice! I used to work as a reference section library shelver, so maybe that's why it's fun for me to discuss nonfiction books.

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[(Anonymous)]

I'd put in a second thumbs up for both Sun Tzu and Clausewitz, and suggest stirring in Thucyldides History of the Peloponnesian War for a top three session of the classics of War. I'm currently reading the Landmark Thucyldides edition of it, with maps and footnotes; strong stuff.

http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=9B5253F14910102245CC0A158F72DEED

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[(Anonymous)]

Seconded! Thucydides for the win! (Warning: his book’s REALLY long.)

—Lady Cutekitten of Lolcat

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[lincoln_lynx]

I'll join in too. It's been a long time since I've read it.

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[tunesmyth]

I look forward to reading your thoughts on The Art Of War! Have you been following Steve’s excellent ongoing meditations on it at readoldthings?

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[kimberlysteele]

I didn't know he was doing that! Now that you mentioned it, I had a look. His analyses are deeply insightful and I love how he tied it in with Eliphas Levi's Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic.

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[(Anonymous)]

I was in the reading room playing BitLife, a phone game where you live out the character’s life and try to achieve whatever goal you set for them. I had my character buy a haunted house.

Sun Tzu was one of the ghosts. 😄

(Genghis Khan was another. I’d like to be a fly on the ceiling listening to their conversations!)

—Lady Cutekitten