Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Abridged
Author: Robert M. Pirsig
Narrator: Lawrence Pressman
Genres: Self-help
Publisher: Audio Renaissance
Date: June 1999
Length: 6 hours
Ratings:
  • Book Rating: 3.5/5
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  • CD

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"Profoundly important... full of insights into our most perplexing contemporary dilemmas... It is intellectual entertainment of the highest order." -- The New York Times

"It lodges in the mind as few recent novels have... The book is inspired, original... As the mountains gentle toward the sea--with father and child locked in a ghostly grip--the narrative tact, the perfect economy of effect defy criticism... The analogies with Moby Dick are patent. Robert Pirsig invites the prodigious comparison... What more can one say?" -- The New Yorker

"It's a miracle.. sparkles like an electric dream. Freshness, originality... that seduces you into loving motorcycles, as tender in their pistons as the petals in the Buddah's dawn lotus." -- The Village Voice

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Maybe it was good 25 years ago

by Anonymous
  • Book Rating: 1/5

Zen and the Art

by Anonymous
  • Book Rating: 4/5

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Maybe it was good 25 years ago

Written by Anonymous from Los Angeles, CA on August 29th, 2007

  • Book Rating: 1/5

I'd heard about this book all my life. When I disliked the first CD, I thought I would stick it out to see what everyone had raved about. By the middle of the second CD I couldn't take it anymore. This emperor was wearing no clothes, as far as I was concerned. Or maybe these insights seemed monumental 25 years ago.

Zen and the Art

Written by Anonymous from San Francisco, CA on March 1st, 2007

  • Book Rating: 4/5

A book that puts daily life into perspective, helping to differentiate between trivial and transcendental, and how to deal with both. Engaging and enlightening.

thought provoking

Written by Brian Wells on March 29th, 2005

  • Book Rating: 4/5

very deep analysis of the contradictory views of the world as seen by scientists and artists (romantics). He suggests (I think) that neither view is correct, but are rather simply 2 different ways of looking at the same world. suggests that technology is neither good nor bad, but should bring "piece of mind". He inspires the reader to stop and see the world, and to do every job with "care".

Brilliant!!!!

Written by Anonymous on February 16th, 2005

  • Book Rating: 5/5

Great Book.!!! Everyone must read this book atleast once in their liifetime

ZAMM ... Very, very perspective driven. Throw out the picture frame and experience life vicariously!

Written by kk2again on October 22nd, 2004

  • Book Rating: 5/5

ZAMM proves to span the concept of time and being while some how connecting the two beyond geologic terms. Some writings define a culture, without setting out to do so. This is one of those. After renting it, you will want to own a copy. It is a vacation without leaving your CD player.

Selected Reviews

Maybe it was good 25 years ago

by Anonymous
  • Book Rating: 1/5

Zen and the Art

by Anonymous
  • Book Rating: 4/5

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