The Art of War

The Strategy of Sun Tzu

By: Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Mike Borris

Length: 1 hr and 48 mins

Publisher's summary

This timeless text is required listening for any business person or athlete interested in strategy. It includes a soundtrack entitled "The Mysterious Sound of Wind In the Bamboo", a 43-minute collection of Zen-inspired Japanese music by the Matsu Take Ensemble.

Public Domain (P)2011 Trout Lake Media

Ending of book

The ending was weird! 30 minutes of flute music that just kept going and going. Overall good classic!

Fascinating insight into a great leader's mind

What did you love best about The Art of War?

The way the information was broken down. No long, winding explanations of the steps Sun Tzu believed were necessary to be successful. Just small, bite-sized nuggets of insightful information and strategy.

What did you like best about this story?

Appreciating the fact that information in "The Art of War" is still used today, thousands of years later.

Have you listened to any of Mike Borris’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No, I haven't so I can't credibly make any comparisons between his works.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

No real extreme reactions. A lot of "wows" when hearing the strategies.

Any additional comments?

I believe this book is a must for those in the cutthroat world of business and athletics. My work is not in those arenas so there aren't a great deal of ideas that I can utilize. It was a fascinating listen nonetheless.

excellent

Where does The Art of War rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

i think so far one of the best books i listen to. I can not complain best money i spent.

The last few chapters are just pan flute music.

I'm not sure why someone would do this other than to make the run time seem longer.

Incomplete

The last 12 chapters are nothing but music? If that was intended it wasn't mentioned mentioned before listening.

Book is good, music is not

what the hell is the point of an hour of music the end of the book?

10 Chapters with Chinese Music!

Too much Chinese music on this audio book. Its almost as if I bought a music mp3.

the last 10 chapters is flute songs

hour long book with only a flute playing for the last 10 chapters. don't waste your credit

Good reading but I don't think that is the whole book

The man who read this did very well and I found it quit information. But the entire last half of the book was music. A bad modern recreation of traditional Chinese music that may or may not have been written about war. So don't buy this book but look for the author. This is the first time this type of thing has happened to me in audible and I have listened to more than 200 hours with them so don't take this as a bash on audible!

Raw Military Advice

Sun Tzu's masterpiece is full of strategy wisdom and insight that can be applied to business or even life.

Yet this book is the raw material from Sun Tzu: there is no context, no summaries, no ideas on how to apply it to modern life. This is a book on military strategy that would be useful to any general building a man-to-man combat plan in a war.

Unless that fits your profile, then I would recommend looking for another book that applies Sun Tzu's wisdom to your area of work in a way that you will find useful.

Plus, the second part of the book is just instrumental music - Chinese, I suppose. I don't see how it fits in an audiobook unless you plan to practice some Wu-Shu after being inspired by it.