Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Thoughts? Comments? Just wondering....

 

I love it!

So much though that I carry it around with me sometimes.

 

I started this book a long time ago, but never finished it- not sure why.

I love what i've read so far!

 

i borrowed this book from my math tutor but i havent started it yet. what exactly is it about ?

 

i'm starting to read this book again, as we speak... forgot how much i liked it and i'm only on page 10!!

 

One of my old faves. I have it on audiobook, and I listen to it all the time. After you've read it before and you're quite familiar with the story of it, you can just kinda start in a random place and space out! Doing that is awesome for when I'm working at my torch (I blow glass) because I can just space and be totally contemplative and explore other worlds, all with a different part of my brain than I am using while I work...
Enjoy it! It's a wonderful read!

 

Yeah, this is a fantastic book. It's about, I guess the problems with our current worldview. Actually it is almost like the biography of how one man, Phaedrus, comes to a new way of looking at the world, a way that resolves the gulf between the "classic" view (underlying form: technology, logic, rationality, thought) and "romantic" view (first impression sort of stuff: art, feelings, intuition, irrational understanding, experience). Classic reality is to romantic reality what a blueprint for a motorcycle is to the experience of riding one. The whole story is couched in this motorcycle trip west the narrator is on with his son and some friends.

Anyone who likes this book a lot should read it's sequel, Lila. It's heavier, denser and has less "storyline" to it but it expands on Quality into a whole workable system (a metaphysics of Quality, as it's called).

 

SmashNationalism

Have read both 'zen and lila.
Great stuff

Your name...agree totally. But making it pointless would be better

Occam [Citizen of 'earth']