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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Community Reviews back

by Robert M. Pirsig
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Tolle Lege!.
Tolle Lege!. rated it 13 years ago
Amazingly, Zen doesn't speak about physics at all but seems to explain physics better than the others (very zen like!).
TwistedAlyce
TwistedAlyce rated it 14 years ago
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
KuntuZangmo
KuntuZangmo rated it 14 years ago
I read it when I was 13 and I faintly remember I liked it, but there was quite a bit I just didn't understand so I really must re-read it.
The Drift Of Things
The Drift Of Things rated it 14 years ago
It's beyond me why this book has had lasting appeal. It's pretentious and boring. Oh, and smug. Really frigging smug.
JasonKoivu
JasonKoivu rated it 15 years ago
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...
Page Turning Paula
Page Turning Paula rated it 15 years ago
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...
EricCWelch
EricCWelch rated it 16 years ago
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...
TatianaBoshenka
TatianaBoshenka rated it 17 years ago
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...
Yzabel
Yzabel rated it 17 years ago
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...
PJE
PJE rated it 23 years ago
"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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