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Robert M. Pirsig

Robert M. Pirsig was born in 1928 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He holds degrees in chemistry, philosophy, and journalism and also studied Oriental philosophy at Benares Hindu University in India. He is the author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Lila.Photo by Ian Glendinning, en:User:IanGlendinning [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/), CC BY 2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5), CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) or CC BY 1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.

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Birth date: September 06, 1928

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Robert M. Pirsig's Books

Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals - Robert M. Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenanc...

The Devil Can Ride: The World's Best Motorcycle Writing - Lee Klancher, Jack Lewis, Kevin Cameron, Jack Lewis, Hunter S. Thompson, Robert M. Pirsig

Coffee with Plato - Donald R. Moor, Robert M. Pirsig

Lila's Child: An Inquiry Into Quality - Dan Glover, Robert M. Pirsig

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Remember When the Music rated it

10 years ago

text Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig is an iconic story chronicling a father-son American West motorcycle journey, peppered with philosophical musings and observations on American culture. This was a (530 page) book which I truly could not put down. Though Pirsig touches on ...

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Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd rated it

10 years ago

text A exploration of art, argument, and motorbikes

This is one of those books that I am wondering why it actually took me so long to get around to reading. I guess a part of it had to do with the title (when I was somewhat more fundamentalist in my faith, anything that reeked of another religion would be automatically discarded), but then I guess it...

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piratequeen rated it

11 years ago

text Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

I had to read this book in high school. It was an arduous slog, since philosophy has never really been a great interest of mine. To this day, I don't know why we read it for English class, or what I was supposed to get out of it. All I remember about it was the shock therapy.

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The Review Man rated it

11 years ago

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This book came to me at a strange time. Normally I would give a book like this two stars and be done with it. But not now. I am going through something of a minor existential crisis, and as a result, I am taking some time off so as to focus on things of import. The plot of this book is not really ...

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msleighm books rated it

11 years ago

text Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

This book would have better been titled Motorcycles, Science, Math, and Traveling in the West. I liked the motorcycles, I liked the traveling and I didn't mind SOME of the math, science and philosophy. Maybe it's just dated. IDK. I didn't complete it, so I'm not going to rate it. It will go back int...

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