But, all in all, there is not much here to justify 23 hours of listening. The narration is pompous and overly serious, but the narrator's pronunciation of Madame de Pompadour (and it happens many times) is funny enough to gain an extra star. Perhaps it's a satire that few have recognized as such. The whole thing is rather silly really, somewhat entertaining but not to be taken seriously. It's a repetitive book, for example Bertolt Brecht's testimony before HUAC is recounted several times each time illustrating a different law. The interpretations are often tortured, twisting and forcing the stories to demonstrate laws they often have nothing to do with. What follows is a lot of stories and interpretations explaining how each story illustrates the law being discussed. This book comes along and claims to have the secret, the 48 "laws" of claiming power for yourself. If only we could discover the secret to being powerful. Most of us spend most of our lives feeling powerless. I can understand why people want to take this seriously. Oh, an by the way, I am a Christian and a "Shodan" at weichi. With the average unabridged audiobook length typically being around 10 hours (depending on genre, word count, pacing, and many other factors), and because the abridgement process can reduce a book size anywhere from 30 to 75, the listening time can be. Especially when you yourself are the author of that threat. Abridged audiobooks exist for the purpose of quickening the listening time for the audience.
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Read it not only as a manual for knowing when and how far to press an attack, but more so as a loyal spy to warn you of an immanent threat long before it can take hold of you. With this book you will see the "games being played" by others and steer clear of them.
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However, With this book's Natural Laws, balanced with Biblical Morality there can be no stopping you. This world is brutal, as is this book, which reflects it. A Biblical scholar will say "This book is The World, Nature itself, The flesh." Yet in flesh we walk, under laws of nature we must obey at our peril, and in this world and under its consequences we live.
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Yet, its' understanding is mandatory as without it one can never tame the same wild animal into a beast of burdon from which comes success, prosperity and the very food on your table. It is morally neutral like a wild animal and just as dangerous. it is invaluable both for those seeking power and for those who would resist enslavement.
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Like The Art of War and The Bible, this book is a mandatory read for any true adult. A mandatory read for those who would be free.