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    <body><![CDATA[I like <strong>Lila</strong> better than its prequel, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" title=" Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance</a>, which is saying quite a bit - <strong>Zen</strong> is one of my very favorite books.<br/><br/>In the decades between the books' publications, Pirsig's philosophy matured considerably; this book is simpler, more direct, and more eloque...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1314231">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book started out quite promisingly. It had some really amazing, mind-blowing parts. But near the middle of the book there is a light drizzle and then a torrent of classism and a touch of veiled racism. The ending is also rather disappointing. The book hovers between epiphany and wrongheadedness...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8442379">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[1) The story is compelling. Post post midlife crisis man meets younger voluptuous woman.  They travel down the river together. The convention is quite cheap. But he never saves her or she him and neither victimizes the other either. That's good. It's not really sensual (except for one scene). And th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71643587">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fantastic read. There were two &quot;mind-blowing&quot; branches in this book.  The first centers around evolution and morality among the three basic forces: biology, society, and intellectualism.  The second talks about morality and ties into quality in terms of metaphysics and having &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8756670">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Love the analysis of intellectualism v. Victorianism<br/>Thoughts on socialism as a higher form of evolution (intellectually guided society) dislike the statement that only free markets have dynamic quality.<br/>Interresting discussion on mental health: insanity/sanity are culturally bound, no new...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68703198">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[You have to muddle through the first few chapters as Pirsig sets up his assumptions and recounts his key findings from Zen and the Art.., but what follows is a compelling read about a highly evolved metaphysical system- one that bridges the gap between Eastern mysticism and Western empiricism (or ro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57125639">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The philsophical inconsistencies between this and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, made me want to write an argumentative letter to the author .. . which I take as evidence that he had something of import to say.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Need to read this after enjoying Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I admit I had to put this one down before completing it.  I'd read Zen earlier that year, and was very interested in what a long hiatus would bring.  I was thoroughly unimpressed and fairly disenchanted.  Zen had a wonderful feeling of exploration, both in the narrative as well as his approach to st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45925628">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I started this book with a heavy bias. First of all, I got stuck on the idea of him being on a boat now instead of a motorcycle. Instead of traveling :into: America, he was hiding from it. The greatest parts of the subcontext of 'Zen' were the ways that he described the emotional landscapes, that is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37035914">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book because I liked <em>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance</em> so much. The thing is, where the philosophic musings of <em>Zen</em> seemed tangential to the narrative element, and helped illuminate it, <em>Lila</em> had a narrative that was tangential to the philosophy, and did little for it. <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21128404">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, this book has a lot of deep philosophical discussion interlaced with stories of a journey of some sort that Phaedrus (the author in his earlier life) is on. In this one, Pirsig is on a trip to sail down the Hudson River into the Atlantic and then down ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19751804">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great, great book ! <br/><br/>A bit different in respect of &quot;Zen and the art...&quot;, but with some points in common, as well....(narrative style amidst fiction and non-fiction; great reflections also in narrative style; the protagonist, Phaedrus, is the son of the protagonist of the better ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8510031">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I rate this book above &quot;Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance&quot;, which is what got me searching for more of Robert Prisig's works. It’s a quite sometime since I read this book.<br/><br/>This book is not for those who don't take to philosophy kindly. It is a slow read since there are...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/205578">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Robert Pirsig tries to tackle the difficult task of re-working a new morality based on his idea of the Metaphysics of Quality.  I found this book much more intriguing than his first book.  He surmises that our current relativistic morality is self-destructive because it leaves the individual/Society...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21677856">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was readable but worthless. Spirituality is not the same thing as getting high on drugs. Spirituality consists of putting your spirit in charge of your body and God's Spirit in charge of your spirit. This book suggests that you give up control of both instead.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals]]>
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    <![CDATA[The author of <em>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance</em>   examines life's essential issues as he recounts the journey down the   Hudson River in a sailboat of his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus.   Reprint.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The philosophy presented in Lila was thought provoking and accessible in the same way that Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance was. Also like ZAMM, Pirsig weaves his abstract ideas into a narrative that helps to illustrate his concepts without being didactic or artificial. He manages to expla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12543691">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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