“Loved the chautauquas. Have read this book several times and I like it more each time I read it. I would like to travel America on a motorcycle with no particular schedule or destination. Sad about his son Chris. Learning about meditation and buddhism as a result of reading this book.”
“I started this book out as a teenager and lost interest, now 20 years down the road I enjoy it more and understand more of what the author is trying to say. I don't doubt that it is understood less now in a consumer culture but for anyone that wants to question a throwaway society then this might be a good read. I am only on page 102 but enjoy every single page.”
“the most imp thing this book does is shake our belief in the "absolute truth" of religion, what the narrator calls "ghosts".it really helped me to get over the fact that god or religion is completely a figment of our imagination, and that there is no such thing as god.from agnostic i am now an atheist, all thanks to this book.did anyone else feel like it..??”
“Felt sorry for Chris, his son in the book. Totally empathised with him when he sighed 'Dad..I'm bored!'. what does Dad do? Sends him home alone! An utterly self-absorbed father takes him out on a month-long motorbike trip expounding academic rhetoric to anyone who will listen. If I was as obssessed with theory as he was it would drive me up the wall. All in all, interesting, in a preachy kind of way but really felt sorry for the kid. Not a fun trip.”
“I picked up this book from a second hand shop. The title was interesting. Sat at a coffee shop to start me off on the beginning chapters. Woaahh! What a discovery! I'm not even midway through the book yet but I'm liking it for the ideas in it that we don't often hear rationalized everyday. I say take your time reading this. Put the down the book if specially if there's lightning that strikes your thoughts. And then keep your thoughts going ... and don't let go til you've exhausted it. The book makes you break down your thoughts and and then you go further into rationalizing his thoughts to compare it with yours. Get it? Well anyway, thanks to the internet.. what great resources you'll find on the background of this book. Robert Prisig... now who's ever heard of this name? But then the you realize by browsing the net that you've stumbled upon possibly one of the great books written by a distinguished mind. Oh! And what a surprise to find out that Prisig spent some years in a mental institution... I guess partly because his non-conventional thoughts were either too much for him to control or that it was just too much for a conventional world. OH well.. so much for that. So now I continue reading into this book... ”
“The first time I read the book was in 1973. It was mind blowing in its scope and topicality. I've re - read it innumerable times, it covers a lot and I've tried to base my life and actions on it (sometimes well, sometimes not). After so many years I still find the message relevant. Living a life of quality has a lot of rewards, compromising on quality may be good materially for a moment, it doesn't last. Trust me, I've been on the rollercoaster.”
