"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," by Robert Pirsig.
I read it when it first came out in 1974. I was a 22-year old paratrooper with less than a year to go before getting out of the Army. I knew I was going to go to college, but I really didn't have any idea of what I wanted to study. Having gone to Woodstock and been highly influenced by the counterculture zeitgeist, I suppose I would have been an English major or something along those lines.
But ZAMM was a complete head slap. It opened my eyes to some stuff I had never thought about, and I... (read more)
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," by Robert Pirsig.
I read it when it first came out in 1974. I was a 22-year old paratrooper with less than a year to go before getting out of the Army. I knew I was going to go to college, but I really didn't have any idea of what I wanted to study. Having gone to Woodstock and been highly influenced by the counterculture zeitgeist, I suppose I would have been an English major or something along those lines.
But ZAMM was a complete head slap. It opened my eyes to some stuff I had never thought about, and I... (read more)