Insights on Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Instaread
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3.7 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) by Robert Pirsig is a heavily autobiographical novel about the author’s cross-country motorcycle ride with his 11-year-old son, Chris. Haunted by his own history of mental illness, and worried about Chris, who recently received a similar diagnosis, the unnamed narrator plots a route from Minnesota to California...
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Customer Reviews
interpretation rather than insightful explanation.
seems personal interpretations rather than what the book describes. For example, Instaread says that Pirsig provides a factually incorrect description of schizophrenia, i.e. "it is not a split personality, but a duality between reality and ...". But who is he to assume he knows what REALITY is? Which accidentally, is a question who plagued philosophers forever. I guess this is the problem with summaries.....can they REALLY summarize books like these?
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