Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

An Inquiry into Values

Audiobook

Język English

Opublikowane 13 sierpnia 2000

(1 opinia)

"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.

46 edycji

not a good bedtime read

This is the second time that I stop reading this book. I really enjoyed the journaling of the motorcycle trip, but that's only half of the story. After a day at work, sitting in bed, trying to wind down, the whole discussion about classicism vs romanticism and rational analysis, etc is just too dry and tiring to follow.

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  • Biography
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  • Fathers and sons
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  • Maintenance and repair
  • Motorcycles
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  • Psychology
  • Self
  • Zen Buddhism and science
  • Conduct of life
  • Existentialism
  • Travel
  • Values
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  • Autobiography
  • 18.06 Anglo-American literature
  • Zen buddhism
  • Motorcycles, maintenance and repair
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