Thoughts on Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

• I found the references to the scientific method very useful – I currently had a broken guitar at the time, and was finding fixing it extremely frustrating – I was stuck in ‘Stuckness’ – reading this book made me set aside everything I knew, and really assess what was happening. Did I really know everything I thought I knew – writing my assumptions down were hugely helpful, as someone I had assumed was incorrect.
• I found it very sad when Chris died – I thought the book and road trip were semi fiction, and when the book concluded and Chris died I found it very sad. How does a fictional character die after the story has concluded. How are we attached to Chris, despite the constant frustration at him.
• The reinforced idea that the struggle is life well and truly comes through – the art of doing something slowly and doing it well comes through in Motorcycle maintenance as it does in every book.