The Art Of War

Julia says:

I bought this book on sale, liking what it promised to deliver. It was supposed to be written for the professional or for the homemaker alike, and I thought the concept to be very interesting. After reading about two thirds of it, I had to stop. What an oversimplified, offensive book. It is clear the book was either written by a simpleton or for simpletons. Every page has one or more headings, as if to instruct the reader what the page is about, as if the reader is unable to decipher that for herself. There are random quotes scattered throughout these headings and subheadings, and at first it appears that the quotes are from the original text, as some are sourced while others not. One believes so until one realizes that some quotes are a bit too modern for such an old text. Then the confusion ensues: Is this the author randomly plucking a cheesy present-day quote, or is the author quoting original author of The Art of War? The idea is an interesting one: to speak and appeal to women, to bring them closer to intellectual ideas of Sun Tzu. The book is ridiculous. It is akin to incoherent stringing of cheesy and irrelevant quotes, past or present. While attempting to speak to women, the book even manages to be belittling and condescending, ‘teaching’ us about the “value of appearing more submissive than we really are”. This is an embarrassing and a failed attempt at empowering women while stringing random cheesy quotes together and using elementary and over-simplified examples to get across points that the author does not seem to understand. I consider this book to be a waste of my money and an ever bigger waste of my time