Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintanace

Imagine traveling state to state on a motorcycle, the wind rushing through your hair and the vibrating of the engine massaging your body. Imagine traveling cross-country on a Honda motorcycle on a seventeen-day journey. Robert Pirsig and his son Christopher experienced exactly this. Pirsig saw this journey as a way to rediscover himself after a mental breakdown, to ponder the basic aspects of philosophy, and to decipher the way people think. His son was just …showed first 75 words of 1362 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1362 total…reader as well. The descriptions of the scientific method, the importance of quality, and the whole idea of living one’s life to the fullest are what makes this book what it is. Pirsig uses his real life experiences as a way to tell not just the story of a major part of his life, but to make the reader more aware of the world around him, and not to take a thing for granted.