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PhantomObserver Started conversation Jul 20, 2003
Entry: Sun Tzu : The Art of War - A1115632
Author: PhantomObserver - U232722
This is a substantial update of Merangadan's entry (A571862) which had been sitting in the Flea Market for some time. I added a bit on the book's publication history and cut down the number of quotations in favor of an outline.
Comments, as always, are welcome.
A1115632 - Sun Tzu : The Art of War
David Conway Posted Jul 20, 2003
A fascinating read. 
One minor issue, though... In the opening paragraph, the dating give a year as being BCE. The rest of the entry gives dating as BC or AD. Either that BCE should be changed to BC or all of the other dates should be changed to BCE or CE.
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PhantomObserver Posted Jul 20, 2003
All right. I've got that fixed. Thanks for the tip.
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David Conway Posted Jul 21, 2003
That really was all I could come up with by way of critical comment. Looking good! 
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xyroth Posted Jul 21, 2003
you could mention that this is downloadable from project gutenberg.
http://www.gutenberg.net/
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Otto Fisch ("Stop analysing Strava.... and cut your hedge") Posted Jul 21, 2003
This looks very good indeed - always great to see good things coming back from the Flea Market 
Otto
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Phoenician Trader Posted Jul 21, 2003
This is a really good entry on a widely quoted and, I suspect, unread book. It is amazing to get such a good feel for a book from so few words.
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Spiff Posted Jul 21, 2003
hear, hear!
Great stuff. Nothing to say on style or content, a couple of humbly submitted typos for you:
"This wass a similar state of affairs to the Sengoku period in Japan."
and a mis-typed 'espionage' in the last para.
see you on the Front Page
spiff
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Zarquon's Singing Fish! Posted Jul 21, 2003
I've read it, but not for a while!
My favourite part was the little story that went about being faced with overwhelming odds in a siege, where the strategy was to open the gates and appear to want the enemy to come in. The enemy didn't - suspecting a trick/trap. The enemy believed there was a much stronger force than there was. Must find the book and have a look. 
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PhantomObserver Posted Jul 22, 2003
Typos have been corrected -- thanks for pointing them out!
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Peer Review: A1115632 - Sun Tzu : The Art of War
- 1: PhantomObserver (Jul 20, 2003)
- 2: David Conway (Jul 20, 2003)
- 3: PhantomObserver (Jul 20, 2003)
- 4: David Conway (Jul 21, 2003)
- 5: xyroth (Jul 21, 2003)
- 6: Otto Fisch ("Stop analysing Strava.... and cut your hedge") (Jul 21, 2003)
- 7: Phoenician Trader (Jul 21, 2003)
- 8: Spiff (Jul 21, 2003)
- 9: Zarquon's Singing Fish! (Jul 21, 2003)
- 10: PhantomObserver (Jul 22, 2003)
- 11: Jimi X (Jul 23, 2003)
- 12: McKay The Disorganised (Jul 27, 2003)
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