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Title: Steal My Art: The Life and Times of T'Ai Chi Master, T.T. Liang by Stuart Alve Olson ISBN: 1-55643-416-2 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Shoplifters of the World Unite and Take over!
Comment: STEAL MY ART, the art form is hidden and not given away, the treasure lays buried. Can you find it? I love this book. Its unconventional. I was originally looking for good books on Taoism and found this gem (I don't do tai chi yet!). If you like Taoism/Chinese philosophy get this book. It shows you the real and humour-laden side of a Tai Chi master and that Liang is operating in a world of humor and pranks to reveal the inner stupidity of most people and situations. Most people are blindly following their own way and Liang provides the Kung Fu chop to their reality to try and wake them up (or not). There are some great moments in this book, especially when Liang gets tired of an annoying student and shuts him up and giving him a certificate and telling him he has nothing more to learn. This book is pure genius. You either get Liang or you don't. Sometimes humor is the only way to see out of the Matrix. Just be sure to take the red pill.
Rating: 1
Summary: This book isn't meant for everyone
Comment: I was very disappointed in this biography, it could have been so much better if it had been expanded and some actual insight into Mr. Liang's character and life had been included, instead of a collection of memories and stories loosely gathered and haphazardly put together. While I'm not trying to offend Mr. Olson with this review and I'm sure that he is a wonderful teacher and that his art is very good, I think that a ghost writer and more careful editing would have done wonders for this book about someone who was obviously a great man.
The book is confusing: it's poorly written and doesn't give sufficient detail on any of the topics that it touches on. To an extent, Mr. Olson seems to be talking to people who are already very familiar with Mr. Liang's life story - the book is written more like a summary of his life rather than a detailed biography. Frankly, almost everything that you'll discover in the book is written on the back cover. The only exception to that are the endless anecdotes included at the end of the book. These are included without context and while the author goes to great lengths to explain why they are included, it would have been much more natural for them to be written into the body of the work, rather than added as some sort of appendix.
Please ignore the reviewer who stated that this book is the one book on the internal arts that you should own. If you want to learn about Mr. Liang's theories on the internal arts, then I would suggest that you buy his book, not this one.
Unless you've got some personal connection to Mr. Liang or Mr. Olson, I'd recommend that you don't buy this book. And if you do, then maybe you can arrange for a proper biography to be written...
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent thoughts from a student to his master.....
Comment: A wonderful and thoughtful book by the author on his master, T.T. Liang. Reminds me of my Shifu, Mr. Chiang, who also spent time studying with one of TT Liang's teachers, Hsiung Yang-Ho. I highly recommend this to all Taiji players out there, whether just starting out or a seasoned student/teacher.
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Title: T'Ai Chi Ch'uan for Health and Self-Defense by T.T. Liang ISBN: 0394724615 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 August, 1977 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: There Are No Secrets: Professor Cheng Man-Ch'Ing and His Tai Chi Chuan by Wolfe Lowenthal ISBN: 1556431120 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: June, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Qigong Teachings of a Taoist Immortal: The Eight Essential Exercises of Master Li Ching-Yun by Stuart Alve Olson ISBN: 0892819456 Publisher: Healing Arts Pr Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: T'ai Chi According to the I Ching: Embodying the Principles of the Book of Changes by Stuart Alve Olson ISBN: 0892819448 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: 15 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Tai Chi Sensing Hands by Stuart Olson, Stuart Alve Olson ISBN: 1892515156 Publisher: Unique Publications/CFW Enterprises Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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