Robert Pirsig has died

[LegoSkier]

https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...r-dies-aged-88

The man was a complicated genius who wrote a book of great (and frustrating) beauty. A work that can be taken at so many levels people are still trying to figure out the implications today. RIP Mr. Pirsig

[wyeaster]

bummer. i remember reading it in the hillcrest motel in gardiner, mt., waiting to go to my new job in the park. i had no idea he stayed there until i read it in the book while i was there.

[bodywhomper]

I still remember reading it obsessively while walking around campus. Very influential for me and directions taken in my life in my late teens.

[wyeaster]

haha siddhartha is my favorite book. i end up giving away every copy i read.

[bodywhomper]

Oddly enough, that photo was not staged.

[Tye 1on]

We were assigned a book report in our 11th grade Econ class. Any book relating to modern economics or- Zen and the Art. I've re-read it many times since and think of it every time I see a red winged blackbird.

[plugboots]

Zen was a great book. We lived only a few blocks from where his son was killed. Felt weird to walk by there. Lila was great as well.

[grinch]

"The only zen you find at the tops of mountains is the zen you bring up there" RIP

[::: :::]

never understood the appeal - i hated his prose...couldn't sit through it

[wyeaster]

i haven't read it in 30 years so my affection is sentimental. i read it a year after the shooting and had a mindbending evening realizing i was reading it where he was writing about.

http://venturearete.org/ResearchProj...7/107_0733_IMG

i have no idea how i would feel about it now. i remember having to work to get into his rhythm but it flowed easily after that.

[muted]

Siddhartha! Bought it in college, still own it, but haven't read it in awhile. (Stupid internet pretty much killed my book-reading.)

[GeezerSteve]

Not great prose writer, but a good story teller. For the young man with half a brain, ZATAOMM was an effective antidote to Ayn Rand garbage. RIP RP