Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

An Inquiry Into Values

540 pages

English language

Published April 25, 2006 by HarperTorch.

ISBN:
978-0-06-058946-2
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4 stars (6 reviews)

"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live and a meditation on how to live better. The narrative of a father on a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest with his young son, it becomes a profound personal and philosophical odyssey into life's fundamental questions. A true modern classic, it remains at once touching and transcendent, resonant with the myriad confusions of existence and the small, essential triumphs that propel us forward.

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Interesting, challenging, shocking, depressing, enlightening, frustrating, and often over my head. With no academic background in philosophy, this book proved pretty difficult for me to get through. I thought that I had read this book when I was younger, but it is clear now that I had only got through the first few chapters, yet I also know that those first few chapters changed my perspective on so much. Now that I have finished this book, I'm left with tons of questions, which is a great thing to be left with.