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  • The Strategy of Musashi
  • Written by: Miyamoto Musashi
  • Narrated by: Alan Munro
  • Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (40 ratings)

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A Book of Five Rings

Written by: Miyamoto Musashi
Narrated by: Alan Munro
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Publisher's Summary

This special edition of A Book of Five Rings contains one hour of traditional Japanese flute (shakuhachi) and 43 minutes of music by traditional japanese ensemble. The music appears track by track at the end of the two and a half hour audiobook and is included as wonderful compliment to this dynamic and elegant listening experience. Legendary 17th-century swordsman Miyamoto Musashi’s exposition of sword fighting, strategy, and Zen philosophy. Required listening for any martial artist, business person, or student of strategy.

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Instructif

Intéressant. Ce livre donne envie de s'entraîner à devenir de meilleurs stratèges. 2h de lecture et 2h de musique traditionnelle japonaise :o)

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Great book

love how techniques are explained. The story after is beautiful, shows how his life went and how humble and honest he was, even though very cruel. I don't understand why there's so much music at the end of the book. I think there's an hour of music and it's misleading, 25% of the book is music. Should have mentioned that

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Great book. One of the best book I’ve ever read on strategy

One of The best book I’ve ever read. We’ve heard about samurais and warriors and their story but it feels really different when you hear the story from their perspective

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Makes no sense

it's like it was written in Japanese. he's just saying things but not explainong them

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Maybe I'm missing something, but half of the audiobook is a flute soundtrack. I will look for another version of the book.

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Mostly music wich is really relaxing.

The voice just like the music is really relaxing. perfect to relaxe. the story is simple and short not that great. but it's usfull to have those sweat instrumental on my audible.

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