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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
by Robert M. Pirsig
Read this one in college during my summer externship in San Francisco, along with all the really cool (at the time anyway) Carlos Castaneda books. Picture this, a bunch of 20 year olds camping on a mountaintop under the stars in the Sierra Nevadas--just sleeping bags and a campfire. No tents. Talking about Really Important Things, trying to sort out what Pirsig really means to us. This is not a book to read alone. It's a book to be discussed and revisited. I haven't read it in quite some time, but I have the memory of the main character going through a breakdown of sorts, trying to sort it all out, and experiencing the freedom of the road on a motorcycle, and us sitting on a mountaintop in the middle of the night wondering if he was really so free after all, or if all of his academic pondering made him more free or less free. Makes ya think.