Book Reviews: Book Review of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values, by Robert M. Pirsig -- Blue Rectangle

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Robert M. Pirsig

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"I read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance because I was in the mood for a road trip of a book. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is more or less the concept of a father and son reconnecting through a road trip, not only of the son, who is I think maybe 11 or 12 years old or something, but also of the father. As the book proceeds, you realize there's a whole level of that relationship that you wouldn't even have suspected from the first 50, 100 pages just because you're really caught up in the romance of the father and son and also some friends of theirs taking a road trip. And just the prose itself is so Zen like, in my mind, at least; it's just very relaxing. The thing I liked most about Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was just reading it. It was just so relaxing. Every time I sat down with it, unlike so many other books, I felt like I was easing into a warm bathtub or something. Just this really beautiful language and everything was so detailed and kind of comforting. It almost had a fetal position quality to it. I'd recommend Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance to anywhere from teenagers to maybe young fathers, to -- I don't know, maybe anyone who feels like they've been disconnected from someone in their family or even a close friend. Because there's a lot of spirituality in the book, obviously through the title, but just taking yourself back from these moments and allowing the book to just kind of envelop you. If I had five stars to give out, I would give Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance four stars. I felt like it's very timeless. You could pick it up at many moments in history, and whether or not the motorcycle is still in use, the relationships are still strong and the lessons learned thereof; just the details in the book are so beautiful."