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The Path to Tranquility: Daily Wisdom by Daili Lama
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig completely changed my world view, my life, and the way I live and interact with the world and the people around me.
Magister Ludi was also incredibly life changing for me, I read that in grad school along with Steppenwolf. B ... have you read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? He deals somewhat with that question. How do you know what to look for, when you are looking for answers. Ok, so the book is faddish, but still decent. ... by Sue Monk Kidd
22. Connections: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults edited by Donald R. Gallo
23. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
... dentist. It was a mistake:
Interrogating the Real by Slavoj Zizek
The Universal Exception by Slavoj Zizek
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Ronald L. DiSanto and Thomas J. Steele ... ... in my life, telling me that it was inspirational and would change my life... Not so much. Pure drivel, if you ask me.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was another book that I was told would inspire me...I just plain didn't get that one.
I couldn't even finish Your Best Life Now ... I am finishing up Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance then reading Simplexity for Early Reviewers. ... Sons Ivan Turgenev
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence
The Bourgeois Poet Karl Jay Shapiro
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig
Bush's Brain James Moore Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig ... enjoyed The Road and found it brilliant also. The father and son thing happened for me as well, reading it after I read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. A bit of an odd pairing, but completely unintended. Nonetheless, they were an interesting couple; both travel oriented and both ... I don't despise much, but I too, could not stand Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. My most recent "understood-why-the-writing-was-respected-but-totally-hated-it" was Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. I am a super bugs and bunnies nature lover, but that one was a bit too spiritual, lyrical and ... ... politics, totalitarianism, etc.
Last time I seemed to have a bit of a father and son theme with the Road Zen and the Art of motorcycle maintenance and The Heart Shaped Box.
I noticed this one came up a lot: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, I'm about halfway through it and already I'm in love with it. Some others that come to mind:
-Essential Zen (this is a collection of Zen poems, stories, anecdotes, proverbs, etc.)
-Walden by Henry David Thoreau
... Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig ... Story
The Outsiders
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
The Scary Stories Treasury
Brave New World
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
As a sidenote, when I walked in, there was a table with buy 2, ... Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance by Robert Pirsig. I was alone my first semester in grad school, I didn't get an assistantship at first so I was living in a $150 a month hovel by myslef and scared to death of leaving the building. This book changed my life, it got me to start thinking ... ... with above posts mentioning Sylvia Plath and Jack Kerouac. To which I'll add Richard Brautiganand Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I suspect these are period pieces, though re-reading is the only test. ... hotel room at the splendor of Mount Vesuvius and the Roman ruins.
And, last, but not least... my personal favorite: Read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance while on a cross country motorcycle trip... maybe with your kids? Or possibly just a friend or two. ... share more books with Tupac than the other authors, but for now it's a spiffy thing (and I would have never taken him for a Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance kind of guy).
Maybe I have too many original languages or too many only one other and my bar graphs take up too much space, but ... Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig is great.
My husband read a book called Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain by Michael Paterniti. I haven't read it yet so don't know whether or not to recommend it. ... couldn't list every book I read five years ago off the top of my head.
If, on the other hand, you actually did read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance at age 5, shunning the usual juvenile reads, then you equally have nothing to be ashamed of ;) ... whatever free time he's got getting drunk with his friends (again, *sigh*) I like mrgrooism's suggestion of giving him Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, but then, I thought about getting him some music & books for Christmas this year (thinking, hey! I could get him into these ... #8 - You could lend him Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig, LOL! (I say lend, not buy, since he probably won't read it, at least you could, it's a fascination book!) ... Narcissus and Goldmund, and Steppenwolf prior to that, but The Glass Bead Game made the most impression.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig I read in gradual school. I was completely moved by the idea of quality and started to question a lot of the ... ... by Manet
Chase the Buffalo by Pierce Pettis
Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Gulag Archipeligo ... ... re.
BA : Introduction to Philosophy
BQ; Freedom in Exile
C: The Dictionary of Global Culture
CR: Chivalry
CT: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
DG: The Twelve Caesars
DT: Sundiata
DU: The Tiwi of North Australia
GA: Maps and Their Makers
GE: global change and ... ... and I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT!!!! Seriously. I can quit anytime. I can.)
College--I discovered Philosophy. Read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which led me to John Locke, Immanuel Kant, and most important, Plato, who led me to Charles Williams and St. Aug ... ... pages of my catalog.
Reverse order is just as bizarre, with Mythology and The Mystery of Numbers appearing between Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Youth and the Bright Medusa.
Edited to add: Interestingly, this is not reproducible, although there are still numerous ... ... Divorce is fiction? Hmm, I didn't know that.
From mine I found just one:
917 Geography and Travel; North America - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
... World History - A History of the Modern World
915 Asia - The Places In Between by Rory Stewart
917 North America - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
929 Genealogy, Names, Insignia - Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
938 History of the Ancient World; Greece - ... ... in high school.
In order as I got through college:
(Friends' recommendations) The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
e.e. cummings's Hollow Men
Pabo Neruda's Isla Negra
Becket's Waiting for Godot
(Plays we mounted, ... lola, I'm not sure how well Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance fits into what you're looking for. It certainly deals with consciousness and Buddhism, but from what I remember the Buddhism isn't particularly emphasized. A good read, though. In high school:
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
High school through college:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
Golden Wind, Zen Talks by Eido Roshi
Since college:
The Way of Aikido by George Leonard
And to a lesser extent: Jorge Luis B ... Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance has mental illness as a basic theme.
Whatever its official classification, though, to me it reads like non-fiction as well as fiction. 12 days later and I'm now at 750 - was Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig.
I haven't decided yet whether I will enter books that I read that I don't own - probably not as that will never be a complete list, since I have read thousands of library books and can't ... ... Many of the first books will be re-reads that I'm reading along with others.
1) Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
2) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
3) Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
No clues in the lead in for any of you!
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values by Robert Pirsig
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton by Peter Weiss
The Devil in the White City : murder, ... ... to ride. I suppose the best way to get started is to ask what are our favorite books about motorcycles? The obvious one is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig. I first read it while I was in college for one of my philosophy classes, and it has stayed with me ever ... ... which was great fun--like a cross between Neil Gaiman and Kurt Vonnegut. Right now I'm about fifty pages into Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which I've never read. So far, it's not bad, but it's not what I expected. ... by Hugh Laurie
26. The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto
27. Smitten by Janet Evonovich
28. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
29. The Destiny of Miro by Julie Rae Rickard
30. Save The Cat by Blake Snyder
31. Family ... My high school chemistry teacher, Mr. Johnston, recommended Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance when I was 17. It was the first philosophy book I ever read, and it began my lifelong interest in the field. I read Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance at a time when I tended to look only at very large issues, and it helped me to see the importance of paying attention to details if you care about something. Brian Swimme's The Universe is a Green Dragon helped me to see ... I highly recommend the epilog to the recent edition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Pirsig's son was killed on the streets of San Francisco. Pirsig talks about how we really know people, and how their existence is really in our heads (Yes it is more complicated than that, and he ... here are my favorites:
1) Tao Te Ching version by Stephen Mitchell
2) Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
3) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
Integral Spirituality by Ken Wilber was published recently is worth the read / fyi: the link for this ... ... all the time - I just loved it then, while I had tonnes of time to think. I'm not sure what I'd make of it now.
Also, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance;Steppenwolf and The Glass Bead game by Hesse; The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov; Crime and Punishment by Dosto ... ... dogma and certainties, and that "everyone knows that's stupid" kind of attitude so prevalent in our culture, even today. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance had a similarly deep impact on me at the time. But then again lots of books simply made me realize how big the universe is out ... ... Castaneda in Castaneda's Journey: The Power and the Allegory, Capra Press, Santa Barbara, 1978.
Robert Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Michael Murphy: Jacob Atabet; An End to Ordinary History: A Novel. Murphy was co-founder of the Esalen institute. He ... ... Castaneda in Castaneda’s Journey: The Power and the Allegory , Capra Press, Santa Barbara, 1978.
Robert Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance .
Michael Murphy : Jacob Atabet; An End to Ordinary History. Murphy was co-founder of the Esalen institute. He also ... ... about this sort of speculation, which is all it is, in a way, but I found this book quite cogent and fascinating.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig influenced me mightily when I was young, and I read it several times. I read it again a few years ago, and I ... Some great books are being listed here, thanks!
I'll join the Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance recommendation. And definitely Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl is another must read for anyone.
I'd like to share another gem with you:
 BrettSchultz in A Pearl of Wisdom and Enlightenment : Books on Wisdom and Enlightenment. (Dec 9, 2006, 12:31am) There's a long list of books I could list here, but I think the one I think about most often is Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig. Ironically enough, I read most of it while riding around the Mojave desert on a 1965 BMW motorcycle.
And then, of course, there's always ... ... great books. But here are a few that immediately come to mind...
Awareness, Anthony DeMello
The Tao Te Ching
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
The Heart of Awareness translated by Thomas Byrom
Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi
Man's Search ... ... great books. But here are a few that immediately come to mind...
Awareness, Anthony DeMello
The Tao Te Ching
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
The Heart of Awareness translated by Thomas Byrom
Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi
Man's Search ... Lila, by Robert Pirsig
Although it is not, strictly speaking, fiction, it is written (as was Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) in a narrative form that can be read as fiction, around which the ethical structure is built.
I also strongly recommend The Last Samurai, by Helen ... I think I've actually slowed down a bit over the years. Some books I still can race through, but I remember trying to read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance years ago and realising that a quick reading was pretty much out of the question! Since then, I've found that some books seem to ... I've been wanting to read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance but that has been taking a back seat after all the business'y' books I have been reading e.g. Wisdom of Crowds, The seven day weekend, Social Intelligence, The World is Flat etc (see business tag in my library). But one ... The first books that come to mind that made me think would have to be Gödel Escher Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig.
Also, anything by Umberto Eco, Jorge Luis Borges, Steven Pinker, and Richard Powers get ... I am currently reading (on my commute) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and finding more in it than I remembered from earlier readings. Pirsig has so much to say about so many basic philosophical concepts. An amazing book.
For my relaxing bedtime reading, I am reading A Short His ...
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