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The Art of War

By: Lionel Giles - translator, Sun Tzu
Narrated by: Deaver Brown
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Publisher's summary

The Art of War is the most famous and longest-lasting book on the practice of war. The book does not mince words: war is about winning; it is not a gentleman's game; it is about using every means at one's disposal to tip the odds in one's favor. Of the centuries, this book has been used by military figures, war departments, business people, educators, and politicians, to name a few. This is the original work without additional editorial comment.

Public Domain (P)2011 Christina Brown

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Aweful narration kills the spirit of Sun Tzu!

If you love your ears, go try finding a different narrator as I did! This is bad

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Annoying Voice

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

i enjoyed the book just the voice was unbearable.

Would you be willing to try another one of Deaver Brown’s performances?

No, the voice is incredibly annoying and makes the smartest insights sound stupid. It was difficult to judge the content of the book due to the horrible performance.

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Solid book

Narrator could’ve been better but it was terrible. Be nice if someone else did the narration.

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This is a brutal listen

This guy sounds like he's taking sips of a drink in between sentences. Embarrassment for this app.

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I want my credit back

I would like my credit back please. This reading could needs to be better quality.

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Reader killed an otherwise great book.

I have read Art of War several times in the past and decided to add it to my audible library so I could listen at work. Although I did finish the book the reader made the experience nearly unbearable. With the added " Sun Tzu said" after every few sentences. Literally killed an otherwise great story.

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Terrible narration.

I bought and didn't listen to until now. terrible. If I could exchange I would.

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Great book, horrible narration

The Art of War is a classic and contains great information. Unfortunately the delivery of the book is underwhelming and of unacceptable quality from what should be expected for Audible content.

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Read the book

The narrator ruined it for me. His accent was distracting and hard to understand at times.

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Good book Bad Narrator

The book is solid but this should’ve never been released with this narrator. If I wanted to hear someone stumble over reading I could’ve bought the book and recorded myself lol.
Seriously though, they need to re-do this whole audiobook. Luckily it’s a short a read because it’s very cringeworthy.

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