joeypasco 's review for:

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig

3.0

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I considered rating this a 2/5 instead of a 3. In a word, I was disappointed. There is some wisdom in this book, and there are certainly things to think about, but many times the book simply lost me, and I had to keep going back and re-reading. I wouldn't have minded this, but there was just no payoff, no reward for trying to wrap my brain around the ideas being presented. I thought that by the end of the book things would wrap up in a way that made some sense, but it really didn't. Not for me, anyway.

All that said, there were points that I did enjoy, which is what prompted the 3rd star.