Reddit reviews The Book of Five Rings
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The Book of Five Rings
We found 9 Reddit comments about The Book of Five Rings. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
I made a list based on where you can purchase them if you want to edit it onto your post:
This Month's Book
January:
by Iain Banks]
(https://www.amazon.com/Consider-Phlebas-Culture-Iain-Banks/dp/031600538X)
by Aldous Huxley]
(https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0060850523)
by Ray Bradbury
by Oscar Wilde
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
by Jordan B. Peterson]
(https://www.amazon.com/12-Rules-Life-Antidote-Chaos/dp/B0797Y87JC)
February:
by Richard Matheson
by Frank Herbert
by Haruki Murakami
by Bret Easton Ellis
by Max Tegmark
by Friedrich Nietzsche
March:
by Ernest Hemingway
by Herman Melville
April:
(https://www.amazon.com/Dice-Man-Luke-Rhinehart/dp/0879518642)
https://www.amazon.com/Stoner-York-Review-Books-Classics/dp/1590171993)
(https://www.amazon.com/Crime-Punishment-Fyodor-Dostoyevsky/dp/0486415872)
https://www.amazon.com/No-Longer-Human-Osamu-Dazai/dp/0811204812)
May:
https://www.amazon.com/Spring-Snow-Sea-Fertility-1/dp/0679722416)
(https://www.amazon.com/Runaway-Horses-Sea-Fertility-2/dp/0679722408)
November
Books Pewds suggested but hasn't talked about in any of the episodes yet:
linking pewds to see this u/pewpewpewPEWdie
As mentioned about Carnegie is a must. Otherwise I'd recommend King, Warrior, Magician, Lover, Staying Healthy with the Seasons (some of the nutrition info is out dated but the core of the book is still great), The Book of Five Rings.
God, this is something I've thought about a lot...
I lived in Japan when I was in college, and one of the biggest things I noticed was the huge difference the two cultures have on learning, what I ended up calling The Cult of Originality and The Cult of Mastery.
In The Cult of Mastery, the Japanese method, originality isn't valued as highly as the complete mastery of the fundamentals, followed by the mastery of an already existing style. After multiple styles are mastered, that's when the learner can start melding them together, to create something unique, and perhaps his own style, but this is an afterthought, not the goal.
The other side of the coin is the American Cult of Originality, in which the goal is to create new material from day one, and the fundamentals are only a stepping stone to that creation of your own new material.
To put this in return top terms, in Japan, a flawless execution of a routine in Jensen Kimmet's style will score higher in a competition than a flawed original execution. In America, the reverse is true, originality will always win.
My biggest takeaway from all of this, as an American, is to not give a shit if people think my style is derivative. I've only been taking throwing seriously for about nine months, which ain't a long time. I will keep drilling the fundamentals, and mimicking styles I like, all with the faith that originality will come at when those fundamentals are not enough.
If you like this line of thinking, I would really recommend the books The Art of Learning (by the guy who Searching for Bobby Fisher was based on, who became a world champion in martial arts later on in life), The Road to Excellence (which is expensive, but you can find pdfs of on the internet), Malcom Gladwell's Outliers, and The Book of Five Rings
Like say the US Marine Corps' Professional Reading List? I think all branches have reading lists.
One's I've actually read::
I'm particularly fond of The Village by Bing West.
There's Power To The Edge which is more modern
Also yes, Sun Tzu's The Art of War, also Nicolo Machiavelli's Art of War, On War by Clausewitz, On Combat by Grossman even though I have some issues with it.
Hope this helps.
EDIT: I can't believe I forgot The Book of Five Rings by Musashi
The only ones I can think of is Hagakure and Go Rin No Sho. Obviously, you'd have to track down the japanese version of the books (I assume via amazon.jp), but I neither speak nor read japanese, so I would defer to you.
This is wonderful thank you!
Highly recommended from my own bookshelves, in no particular order
> That's last in the book so either I've read the book or I had read the wikipedia page before you mentioned it
You already said you didn't read the book, so yeah, the table of contents in the wikipedia article mentioned it, or you pulled it from a quote site. We already know you didn't read it.
> h, and it also happens to be very near the bottom of the wikipedia page, suggesting that I did in fact not only read the first paragraph.
Or one of those other options. Good job, though. I'm sure you totally grocked the book of the void in all its context by skipping to the end of the wiki article (assuming that's what you did).
> You still don't get it do you. The downvotes are there because you aren't even making arguments for your cause.
I don't need to argue. You haven't read the book, you don't know enough about it to make any suggestions about its material. It's a book about martial prowess and the mindset with which you approach combat. Trying to pull anything else out of it is a fool's errand- which you've proven by trying to do without so much as an initial reading.
You aren't equipped to talk about it. I tried to be nice, but you just aren't. Let me know when you've given it a nice, respectful reading, and then we can talk.
https://smile.amazon.com/Book-Five-Rings-Miyamoto-Musashi/dp/1590309847/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481739643&sr=8-1&keywords=book+of+five+rings
Here you go. It's cheap and if you use that link something will go to charity. Buy it, read it over a month or so (it's short, but not meant to be taken in a single brief reading), and come back when you have an opinion worth taking into account.
Thank you, I'm flattered
that you could be impressed by five book that I hold dear to my heart. I have strong feelings about adding books to my collection, as it's far more important to me to know a book, that to simply be able to purchase it. I have far too many books that I confess I'm only acquainted with, and do not know deeply :( A good book owns me as much as I own it. I carry it with me in my thoughts.
>I would love to read more about that but I have this fear of not understanding their way of life, of respect, of loyalty to the monarch/ shogun.
Instead, please take my offering of a small library of five books on samurai aesthetics.
I hope you are much more impress by the quality of the words written in these books, and what they might evoke in you, rather than their habitation in my life. I am but the humble reader.
Pick up a copy of The Book of Five Rings or The Dhammapada and add them to your study. You can still read the Bible and Mormon "scriptures" but approach them as literary works: character, dialogue, plot, theme, metaphor, philosophy, etc.