I am about 1/4th through, and it's interesting to see how connected this is with Cosmere, unlike the first 3 books. I think this book should be read after you have read at least 1 book of The Stormlight Archive. Looking forward to seeing if we learn anything else in it.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I finished the Classic of Tea, but am still struggling through The Legend of Darkness. As my backup brain-resting book I've now got The Thirty-Six Strategems on the side. It's an interesting new edition that has all the strategems and classic commentary examples but also adds more modern ones from around the world and from spheres other than the military. It is, as so many of my books in this vein are, trilingual: the original text and commentary are in Classical Chinese, modern vernacular Chinese, and English. The examples are bilingual vernacular Chinse and English.

[–] dresden@discuss.online 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Heh, The Thirty-Six Strategems is a brain-resting book? 😀

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 2 points 2 days ago

Well it's a lot less brain-smashing than Laozi or Yijing… 😱