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A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions on how to live. The narrator’s relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence, this classic is a touching and transcendent book of life.Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance PDF
This new edition contains an interview with Pirsig and letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book came to be.
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The Writers
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.
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Proportions of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance PDF
- Publisher : Mariner Books; 1R edition (August 2, 2005)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 464 pages
- International Standard Book Number-10 : 0060839872
- International Standard Book Number-13 : 978-0060839871
- Lexile measure : 1040L
- Item Weight : 12.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.31 x 1.05 x 8 inches
Reviews From Customers
KW
Does not holdup
October 23, 2018
I read this book back in the 70s, and i dont think I finished it back then.
I decided to read it again because Im an avid motorcycle rider and follow eastern spiritual teachings.
The book is not informative on Zen, motorcycle maintenance or operation, philosophy, except on a very superficial level. The author has written a loose autobiography of his own troubled life and mental illness issues, which is sad and tragic, and offers very little except the chance to feel some empathy for the him and his family.
There are several points in the story where the author loses his credibility. When he talks about travelling to India and learning about Buddism from trained teachers, but then confesses that he never actually practiced meditation, and then rejected the teachings, his experience it completely invalid. Meditation is not something you talk about and grasp mentally and then progress. It is something you do. It is an experience that you engage in, it alters the way you think and your perception of the world. If he had actually sat down and practiced mindfulness meditation then he would not have become obsessed with words contests between Greek philosophers, and ended up having a nervous breakdown and being subjected to electroshock therapy. He rejected the teachers in India who would have helped him gain understanding, and ran off on his own path to personal destruction.
I dont know why this was a best seller in the 1970s. It does not hold up after all these years. If you want to learn about zen and Buddhism read the public domain book “Mindfulness in Plain English”. If you want to read a book that really touches on the zen of motor vehicle repair, get the original VW manual by John Muir “How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive”. Even if you dont own a vintage air cooled VW vehicle, it is a good insight into hands on mechanical work, and the positive mental state that this book fails to capture.
I wish I had found an honest review of this book before I purchased it for my kindle, I would have skipped it and read something else.
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Cameron
The most self righteous/pretentious thing I’ve read
January 25, 2019
Was recommended this book, and was so disappointed. I hated every moment of it, wishing for it to end. But I still finished it.
The best part is the narrative on the road with his son, the rest of the book, and ‘philosophy’ is rubbish. Pseudo intellectuals will love this book. Hipsters trying to be relevant will relish in it’s self righteous nonsense.
I didn’t care for anything he was trying to ‘discover’, nor did I think it mattered. Really was just one giant wank fest for the writer.
I haven’t been this disappointed in a book in a long time.
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Tim C
Word of Warning — Skip the Introduction
May 12, 2018
Just finished reading this book for the first time and I very much enjoyed it. I could easily see myself reading it again at some point; and I would highly recommend it to others.
However, if you purchase this 25th edition of the book as I did, BE WARNED. It leads with an Introduction that completely divulges the ending of the story as well as other major plot points throughout the book. I can’t fathom why it was ever decided to lead with this. It was written as if anyone reading the book now must have surely read the book before, and this is obviously not the case. The introduction would have been a lovely addition at the END of the book, but was infuriating to encounter at the beginning. It was enough that I considered writing a personal letter to the author, only to find out that he’s dead and that my only feedback can be here to act as a warning to others.
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Ari
Read this. Then read it again decades later.
March 14, 2017
In high school I would have told you this is my favorite book. I just re-read it 2 decades later. And I realize that I grasped about 20% of it at the time. Maybe. Something about the meandering philosophical flow captured my imagination at the time. But reading it now, as a father, I grasp the concepts underneath. I don’t readily admit this but I wept at the end. Then I read the afterward and totally lost it. Beautiful, courageous work.
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Nathan Dean
This book is full of mush
March 19, 2020
When this book first came out, I was a young physics professor. Everybody was reading this book so I did too. I thought it was full of mush.
I read it again, 45 years later. It is still full of mush.
There is a slim thread of a story, maybe a short-story’s worth, with an ending you can guess soon after it begins. But it is submerged by page after page of what the deconstructionists used to rave about – what is reality, what is real reality, there is no real reality, what do words mean, what do the words you use to say what words mean mean, etc etc ad nauseam. All of this is nothing but mush.
The universe exists. It is real, not just something we imagine. We can use any words we want to describe it, but the words won’t alter the reality. We can argue about what words mean endlessly but it won’t change the reality that is out there. Most of this book is wasted on such meaningless meandering. It is full of mush.
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