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Summary: The most amazing book I have ever read.
Review: I read and reread the paperback until the cover fell apart. Eventually the tape could no longer hold it together. The book started me on a lifelong journey, seeking Quality. Not bad for a simple book.
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Summary: What a book!
Review: This book was reccomended by my choir teacher and it is the greatest book I've ever read. It has changed my outlook on things and has effected me in unexplainably ways as well. I'd give this book to anyone and thanks again S.V.
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Summary: What is this book about?
Review: I read this for a philosophy course--and, yes, I read it all the way through, attended class, participated in discussion. I still couldn't tell you what this book is about. Its subject is surprisingly inscrutable, despite the novel's very readable style.
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Summary: It's deeper than it seems
Review: I just finished ZMM on the recommendation of my brother who has read the book 4 times. With only one exception I have never been more pleased with a book. As I made my way through the well crafted prose, and beautiful philosophy I began to act quite differently. Not noticable to me, but people started commenting that I was more layed back, and seemed to be looking at life with a new perspective. I've studied far eastern religions for the past 3 years, and no books has made me realize what they are all about the way ZMM did. I really can't recommend this book enough, but the best way that I can put it is that the day when I read the last page, I flipped right back to the front and started again.
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Summary: A book to be savored, to be lingered over
Review: I first encountered this book in 1975 as my father was reading it, as we were (unknown to the rest of the family) retracing the journey of the unnamed narrator and Chris through the Dakotas, Montana, and on into the west.He gave me the book as I started college that year, and I read it through my first semester -- a few pages here and there. Read it while walking to the train station, read it while working on campus. I enjoyed it somewhat up until the middle, when it really caught fire for me. The second half is just fabulous. There are great little bits in the book that I've reflected upon often. The degrees-and-grading, the gumptionology, the geometry, the intro-to-philosophy. The bit about having a creative block because the topic is too big. These are all little vignettes woven very nicely into a compelling book. I loved it. I lent out my copy many times over the next twenty years...always making sure I got it back. My dad asked for it back last year, and of course I gave it to him...cover shredded, pages marked up by a dozen readers, yellowed and old -- but still as vibrant as when it was written. When I've heard and read what's happened later in Pirsig's life, the book becomes tragic, but that's not really here nor there. It stands on its own.
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Summary: brilliant
Review: i used to wonder how anyone could fail to appreciate this book and the issues it covers. then i realized that the answer is right there in the work itself. Pirsig takes you beyond the world you're comfortable in, whether that be classical or romantic in nature. i cannot really describe how powerful the message of Zen is; read it for yourself. but it's definitely one of the greatest books i've ever read, along with the Tao Te Ching and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. read it, it's amazing.
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Summary: A Necessity for College Freshmen!
Review: This is one of those books that you start because you feel that you should and finish because you love it. It has a telling message for students just entering the realms of adulthood and of higher education about the truly important things in life. It's easy to maintain the status quo, but Pirsig will influence you to pursue your own Holy Grail.
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Summary: As Hard to Ignore as a Harley Revving Up at 7 a.m. Saturday
Review: Work...Family...Relationships...Technology...Philosophy...School...Life. This is every entry on a best-seller list rolled into ONE GREAT BOOK. I should have listened to Dr. Herndl (my English professor) when he told me to read this in 1975. However, I do not think I would have appreciated its meaning as much then as I do now. Keep at this book, just as you would keep at any long task worth completing. "Lyfe so shorte, crafte so longen to lerne." Most of you will be glad you did. The rest of you will just throw the book against a wall. When you need a break, go for a ride and come back. Phaedrus will be there just like your father...alive or in spirit...to help you through the journey.
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Summary: A tremendous book -- must read!
Review: Pirsig's account offers a powerful challenge to the conventional wisdom and prevailing ideologies or approaches of our time. This book is a heart-wrenching (yet triumphant) story of one man's search for truth and value. It also poses several questions that will push a reader to reconsider his/her understanding of truth and reality. Pirsig's book is a pleasant and very worthwhile read, even if you just read it for his personal story. However, it is his plunge into metaphysics that makes his monumental work so great. This is a classic if there ever was one!
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Summary: Very good book. Must read.
Review: Like many other reviewers here I started this book more than once before I read it straight through. I don't know whether a philosophy major would find it interesting but to a layman it was fascinating. The motorcycle trip and philosophical journey start on the east coast and move through the midwest and great plains before making the heady trip into the Rockies. As the land is relatively flat so is the story and this is where people get bogged down wondering what the point is. But the rockies is where it all happens. If you make it that far you'll find an exhillerating philosophical discussion (again, for the layman anyway). At the very peak of the mountain the land and the philosophical underpinnings start to give way in small rock slides. Where it is too dangerous to climb higher, because the land is slippery and the philosophical concepts are more than he feels he can get into in a book for laymen, I wish he had taken the risk and climbed higher. I felt capable of understanding the concepts he was shying away from. This shortcoming understood, I still loved it.
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