Zen and Now: On the Trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Still reading, about halfway through the book. It's good writing and entertaining. Though I think it's a book detailing the travelogue and biography part of ZAMM rather than the philosophical side of it. I think I'm going to switch to Guidebook to ZAMM now that it has been delivered as well.

O autor se propõe a simplesmente fazer uma viagem, seguindo o mesmo roteiro dos "zen riders", Robert e seu filho. O que parece ser um relato jornalístico, ao longo das memórias da nova viagem, décadas depois, também a bordo de uma motocicleta, se transforma em uma revisão/renovação conceitual de todas as ideias da MOQ (metafísica da qualidade), proposta por Pirsig, a partir de seu livro "Zen e a Arte de Manutenção de Motocicletas".

If you read the original zen book then this may prove fascinating reading. Following the trail of the original zen journey is the sort of Sentimental thing I'd be prone to do, I don't live in USA so this is the next best thing for me.great reading about him meeting the very people who mr pirsig met on his original journey. Book have an interesting insight to the personality of Mr Pirsig too, who turned out to have a seemingly different personality to the one I thought he had from my reading of the original over 20 years ago.

Very interesting, I have always heard of the "Zen and the art of motorcycle repair", a book from my parents generations. This book lead me to read Zen and the art of motorcycle repair but I like this book better. The history of this cultural phenomenon is more interesting that the root cause for myself, then again I think most metaphysical mumbo jumbo is just plain hogwash (not because it is too complicated but because its nothing that someone tries to make into something, a twisting of words and meaning). I actually came across this book while looking into motorcycle repair and I'm glad I gave it a chance. Good read, well written and it kept my interest through out.

Probably like everybody else who has bought this book I am a longtime fan of Robert Pirsig's classic book from 1974, so I was of course intrigued by Zen and Now and finally got around to reading it. Well, given the subject matter I expected to at least like this book, but I actually fell in love with it from the very first page. It's a GREAT "road book", and the writing is superb. The author employs a similar method as Pirsig did, weaving a present-tense travel narrative with biographical reflections ( and updates!) on Pirig's life story. Both are fascinating. This book could have been entitled Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Travel. For one thing, the author is crossing half the country NOT on a decked-out Honda Goldwing or a BMW or a Harley but on a 600cc single-cylinder dirt bike! That alone makes this an adventure worth reading about. Pirsig did his trip on a 305cc Honda, with his son on board no less. This was back in the days before motorcycles had evolved into two-wheeled cars. There is little of interest to me these days in modern motorcycle "touring", given the size and luxury of these things they are driving. But Mark Richardson rode a simple out-in-the-wind ( and rain!) honest-to-God motorcycle to really "feel out" the terrain Pirsig traveled in 1968 and made famous in his book. Richardson's is a heartfelt pilgrimage and a wonderful trip and read. Now that I've read this book I think it might be time to revisit the original, for the first time in about 20 years.

An easy read after Zen & the Art.