I'm wondering if anyone here has read The Book of Five Rings by Miamoto Mushashi.

Its an awsome book that talks of mechanics of combat. The writer was a Samuria that never lost a fight, and a master at many things.

So has anyone read it?

Sounds interesting, I could get my work (bookstore) to do a search if you like.q

you work at a bookstore and you never told us!?@ can you get us cheap books?!@#

yeah shotty. Do you work at a bookstore?

If you do, is there any way you can order a book from the USA for for me????

Please damn you, for the love of god. Think of the children.

8-)

you work at a bookstore and you never told us!?@ can you get us cheap books?!@#

Haha, sure. Just not too many at once :)

I've already got it, my most prized book. Next to that I have Art of War, then the Hitch hikers Guide then the rest are equal.

yeah shotty. Do you work at a bookstore?

If you do, is there any way you can order a book from the USA for for me????

Please damn you, for the love of god. Think of the children.

8-)

Usually yeah, depends on the size of the publisher. Also, there may often be a small fee when ordering a single book.

cool

It's cool. I'll pay whatever for it.

It's called...

http://www.members.optushome.com.au/gpahl/bruce

Money is no option if you can get it. I'll pay up to $100 for it.

8-)

* writes down name of book *

Can you give me some contact details?

ahaha, awesome

Sif Japanese fighting arts.... Chinese owns it so hard.

Do you want me to email my name and stuff to you?

Man, this is awesome.

It isnt the specific fighting art I'm interesting in, it is the ideas behind it that I am. Book of Five Rings was a damn fine introduction into such ideas.

since shotty is being such a legend ive got a favoured to ask aswell. Im having a lot of trouble finding a Clive Barker book called Imajica...could you help a bro out?

I have read the book of five rings. It was interesting, but its not as if I changed my lifestyle to be a 1337 ninja. I have not read any other of this sort of book though so I have nothing to compare it to.

You'd be a mad bastard to try and live the way the book talks of :D

[Q] If you liked it, you should read Art of War by Sun Tzu.

Anyone knoe of other books along the same lines as these?

sounds like a good read

Any half-obsessed Samurai fan must have read James Clavell's 'Shogun'... :)

A good read indeed - but I'm going to look into this Five Rings book.

I've just started reading The Art of War.

I wonder who's copy it is, Toll :P

I've read a little of it.
It was pretty good.
Crazy life style though :)

It is pretty j0r.

Its pretty bulls*** for its intended purpose really... doesn't really fit into the modern world, but I'm sure its a good read anyway! WOuld be very interesting.

i might try and read it
thx for the info

How dosn't it fit into the modern world?

I also notice that I spelt Know as knoe :/

Know, knoe
Tow, toe
Show, Shoe


WHICH ONE ODD ONE OUT TOLL?

Cos no one can operate in the way that it instructs and still live in the modern world, there simply isn't time, unless you want to be a hippy dole-bludger Samurai.... :P

I rekon you could if your willing, but who is willing to?

No one, thats my point!

So if someone really wanted to they could. So the book can be used in modern times ;P

I doubt they could really - there isn't enough time these days to have a career and a life and do that samurai lifestyle s*** as well. Plus you don't need to - there are much more efficient and effective modern styles of defence and attack that don't require you to live like and outsider.

cool

Yer but the book is talking more then just offense/defence its talking about a way of life.

A way of life that doesn't really make sense in the modern era: my point.

Go & hire the movie 'Ghost Dog' if you want to see a great (IMHO) example of a modern samuari...

Pffff... hollywood s***. If you want to see gifted martial arts you have to watch Hong Kong movies.

fool AnaRot :P

Don't think for one moment that my extensive Chinatown movie collection doesn't dwarf yours...

All the old (but good) stuff is in Cantonese with dodgy English dubs/subtitles - Jet Li, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan (before he went $$$), Balo etc...

Well, that all depends on what you want in life dosnt it :D

If you even watch the ones with English overdubs then you don't deserve to even know Bruce Li's name.... those things are sacrelige!!! At least on some DVD's you can turn it off and read the subtitles and hear the real voices instead.

shotty, have they released an omnibus of the peter f hamilton trilogy 'the nights dawn' ?


books are:

the reality dysfunction
the neutronium alchemist
the naked god


if they havent released an omnibus, how mcuh are the books by themselveS? prefereably in the normal novel size instead of the big gay big book size

Just got back from store (sorry tung, didn't see your post before I left, will check it out though).

Evil - If you weren't kidding about that chins book, it'll be (around) 50 dollars, specially ordered.

As for the imajica book, 25 dollars, not hard to get :)

Hell yeah dude. Put me down for it.

What bookstore can I pick it up from?? Where do you work??

This is unreal. Thanks man.

8-)

Can you e-mail me your details. ircShot_guN@hotmail.com

hurry up and check it for me shotty :p

Heading in now.

thanks a lot man...do you guys have to order it in or have you got it in stock? which ever it is i do want that book! :)

Well, good to see my thread was useful for something, and with good cause!

r0x0r

'Across The Nightingale Floor' is a good book I just read Brendan. You're more then welcome to borrow it.
Also, Kenshin tonight :D

I like to collect old sorcery books written in the pre 15th centuary. (old stuff is interesting)

A good one is:
LEMEGETON CLAVICULA SALOMONIS
"lesser key of solomon"
Written around 1400-1600...first known magic book made, was compiled from manuscripts and other documents found that were written by a guy named king solomon.
This book was the first book that catalogued all known demons summoned by the solomon fella, it is not an evil book, but all other dark magic books were created using pieces of this book that had been changed around and their true meanings distorted...which solomon warns not to do inside the book:
"Origen saith that the magical art doth not contain anything subsisting, but although it should yet that must not be evil or subject to contempt or scorn; and doth distinguish the natural magic from that which is diabolical."

I find this stuff interesting, some of you might, theres an online version avaliable here:
http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/lemegeton.htm
Allthough the new printed version is more complete and has lots more pretty pictures.
King solomon was a real guy.
and no i do not try to summon demons in my room.

Out of pentagram stencils and red markes? :p

Tung, call me ignorant (working at a bookstore no less), but what is an omnibus of books?

We have all 3 books on the shelves. Paperback, at garden city.

Glen, I've ordered the book and given them your number.

okay where is this super book store with my book?

VSFT - We can order it, thet usual 2-6 weeks etc... I don't remember if we had it in stock. The store is angus and robinson, at Garden City.

an omnibus is generally the 3 books in one, normally in hardcover form. just like a huge book, thats actually 3 1200 page books in one :p

peter hamiltion released one for a collection of novellas, i hoped he did so for this trilogy

paperback you say :/

Novel size paperback :)

Woohoo!

Thanks alot Shotty. So will the book be delivered to Garbo? And also, how long does it take to get something like that? A couple of weeks?

Thanks again for that.

Glen - Given where the book is (hopefully) being ordered from, it could take from 1-2 weeks all the way to a few months.

They are going to check on monday if they are 100% able to order it. They'll let you know.

Cool stuff.

Hopefully everything will work out.