zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance

[danny la rouge]

Didn't I comment on this thread when it was young? No? Well, I read this book when I was about 16. It taught me a lot ... about the sort of hippy bollocks the post war generation foisted on us all. CRM, them and their ponytails will be run out of town, with copies of this and Jonathon Livingstone Fucking Albatross rammed up their every orifice, the better to burn them.

 

[goldenecitrone]

I preferred the sequel, Lila, especially the bit when he meets Robert Redford.

 

[Blagsta]

self indulgent toss

 

[XerxesVargas]

It is one of the dullest book ever written. As a prententious teenager I ploughed through it and that is time I will never get back.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

yes, awful book, the narrator was a cunt and the story was tedium personified. really really pretentious wank of the worst kind.

good title, i suppose.....

 

[gentlegreen]

Must be an age thing ...

There's hardly a day when I don't think about what I got from reading it 3 or 4 times - in my attitude to technology and my approach to working with it.

I also did a fair bit of motorcycle maintenance in the past.
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[Chuff]

I read this when i was a teen and re-read it in my late 20's I think its a kwality piece of work (unlike the sequel)

looks at philosophy and insanity and relationships a classic

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Didn't I comment on this thread when it was young? No? Well, I read this book when I was about 16. It taught me a lot ... about the sort of hippy bollocks the post war generation foisted on us all. CRM, them and their ponytails will be run out of town, with copies of this and Jonathon Livingstone Fucking Albatross rammed up their every orifice, the better to burn them.

just spotted this, well said sah!

 

[Zabo]

self indulgent toss

Agreed.

Some dickhead American attempting to re-write ancient philosophy. Better off reading Sarte if you want some existentialism or Diogenes if you want purity.

If you want something more modern by an actual philosopher and biker you'd do well to read Craig Bourne's:

Philosophical Ridings: Motorcycles and the Meaning of Life

At least it makes one think.