Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
September 17, 2019 - Comment
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR AND A READER’S GUIDE Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance caused a sensation when it was first published in 1974.The story of the narrator, his son Chris and their month-long motorcycle odyssey from Minnesota to California profoundly affected an entire generation.Both personal and philosophical, this book is a
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Challenging read This is a challenging book to read and I admit it took a while to ‘get to grips with it’.I feel; personally speaking, that this is a book I will need to re-read to fully understand all that it offers, but I can understand the criticism offered by others who find it puzzling, banal or just self-indulgence by the author.The author was clearly very intelligent and well versed in Classical literatureHaving completed the book, I found this to be one of, [if not the hardest book I…
Itâs good to be back. So good to revisit this book after 42 years. In all that time Iâve never come across anything quite like it. It had a profound impact on my life in 1976, and Iâm feeling it now all over again – still powerful, but in a different way.
Take your time I re read this book after a gap of thirty years. It means more to me now. First time it caused me to think. It still does but my thinking is coloured by reflection and experience.