this was the most confusing book i ever tried to read. got the audio book version and still got confused. told it was a life changing book but got so confused may have to try it again at some point
The author went insane and nearly took me with him! After years of putting this one off, I finally recently read it and was floored by how it was almost nothing like what I expected: motorcycle talk and philosophy. I did not expect the contemplations of a depressing, crazy person. But that's no reas...
My boyfriend gave me this book as I was leaving for a semester to study abroad because he read it when he was studying in a different country and he really liked how it was about traveling and finding inner peace. I desperately tried to like it. It was difficult to like, and many times I wanted to p...
I read this book about 35 years ago (really scary thought) when I was in library school and it was all the rage. Recently I read a piece in Skeptic Magazine (http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/10-04-28/#feature) that has me rethinking my originally positive view of Pirsig and his work. Chris Edwards pr...
This book is extremely good and also important. It's a treatise on metaphysics as well as a compelling story which the author says is autobiographical. It's exactly right about the scientific method, and the way we go about discovering truth as a society and as individuals. The analogy of working...
Pourquoi je n'ai jamais lu ce livre avant maintenant alors qu'il était dans ma bibliothque depuis presque dix ans, je ne sais. Quoi qu'il en soit, j'ai trouvé sa lecture dans l'ensemble assez intéressante, mais pas nécessairement des plus évidentes (disons que mes cours de philosophie remontent à p...
"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there. Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value."I love this b...
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