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Originally Posted by Sytze Edit: I've been reading a bit of the text in fable's link and, combined with other searches, I have to wonder if Sun Tzu really wrote a whole book. I mean, all I come across are (translated) versions which explain Sun Tzu's writing very systematically. It's not really a story, but instead more a list of opinions and thoughts.

But that *is* his book. Like Musashi's A Book of Five Rings, it distills his accrued knowledge into lengthy advice. It is not meant to be read as you would read a modern work of non-fiction, for linear causes/results. It's supposed to be pondered, meditated upon, and learned as a philosophy that can be applied to the battlefield and by extension, to life. I'm not saying you or I should follow this--but that was the intent. It is a philosophical treatise, as much as anything else.