What does /lit/ think of ZAMM, Lila and Pirsig?

>>8423256
Meme trash. Grown ups read books that actually have bearing on reality and could teach them a skill that would actually make their life better.

>>8423301
>a skill that would actually make their life better.
you are a little bitch. motorcycle maintenance is way more necessary than your shitty philosophical studies. your dad should be ashamed

in a world full of thinkers, the last thing we need is a headrunner of novelists writing about writers. you are a weak person. grow some figurative balls

>>8423301
Havent even read it, but this sounds like the kind of thing someone who reads self-help books would say.

Fine books. His philosophy is pseud tier but entertaining.

>>8425327
Basically this. I enjoy ZatAoMM partly as a fainthearted defense of Sophistry, but mostly because it's essentially a comfy road-trip story. It's a weird book that only got to be as popular as it is due to circumstances outside the book (Pirsig himself admits as much).

Lila's philosophy is (slightly) less pseud-tier, but it's not quite as fun to read. I liked the part about New York City as a giant organism, though.

>>8425706

I dunno. Maybe I need to go through Lila again sometime, but I found Pirsig's discourse on Quality to be lot more substantial than what he was saying in Lila. But that may be the adderall that I was taking while I was reading Lila.

what's Lila about? I've never heard of it.

johnathan livingston seagull was ten times the book that was, and had the luxury of being short and having a message that held fairly true even beyond childhood, unfortunately zen was a forgettable sequence of words.

>>8423433
>he thinks it was actually about motorcycle maintenance

>>8425706
this. i look at it like more of a memoir than a book on philosophy.

>>8425721
i also thought the part on Quality was the most enjoyable of all the chautauquas.