Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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  • What? ... WHAT? You have not read this masterpiece? Why not?  

    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Paperback)
    A review of this book by me, or even a thoughtful critique, Could add nothing to what has been so well-said below in the numerouseloquent essays among the 200. Among the dozen best decisively, reviewer Barron T. Laycock, only a few reviews below, Des
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  • Best Introduction to Western Philosophy  

    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Paperback)
    Despite the book's title, Pirsig's journey is one Primarily through the history of Western philosophy, from the pre-Socratics through Plato, Aristotle, the 18th century empricists, and 19th century Idealists. On this level alone, the book succeeds in
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  • The hype is far greater than the book  

    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Paperback)
    Many, many people have recommended this book to me as "life changing" etc and there certainly is a big enough Following to the book to hype it. There are some good ideas in this book: the ideas on quality versus quantity, some dialectic stuff, e
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  • An intensely personal view of the history of thought.  

    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Paperback)
    My 10-year-old son asked me what I wanted for Christmas last year, and I suggested two books I had known about for 20 years or more, but had never Actually read: "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, and "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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  • Pirsig's philosophy Becomes more relevant over time.  

    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Paperback)
    I read this book as a psychology undergrad at age 20 and thought it was about mental illness. I read it again as a software analyst at age 30 and found That it's about quality, and indeed it contains relevant, useful, and powerful tools for solving q
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  • The paradigm shift  

    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Paperback)
    The book is revolutionary and has A Certain timelessness about it. It is revolutionary as it questions the very essence on Which our systems and beliefs are founded. It articulates a very strong case for the so called 'out of box' thinking and very l
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  • "Actually, Water is not perfect"  

    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Paperback)
    this book tries so blatantly to be metaphorical did it really ends up being quite shallow. The ironic thing is, indeed if one has this opinion, dissenters simply say "you do not understand it Merely". This angers me. I have spent much time study
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