Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
Nov 2013 · Sold by Bantam
4.2star
20 reviews
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In this bestselling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work.
Instead of a motorcycle, a sailboat carries his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus down the Hudson River as winter closes in. Along the way he picks up a most unlikely traveling companion: a woman named Lila who in her desperate sexuality, hostility, and oncoming madness threatens to disrupt his life.
In Lila Robert M. Pirsig has crafted a unique work of adventure and ideas that examines the essential issues of the nineties as his previous classic did the seventies.
Instead of a motorcycle, a sailboat carries his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus down the Hudson River as winter closes in. Along the way he picks up a most unlikely traveling companion: a woman named Lila who in her desperate sexuality, hostility, and oncoming madness threatens to disrupt his life.
In Lila Robert M. Pirsig has crafted a unique work of adventure and ideas that examines the essential issues of the nineties as his previous classic did the seventies.
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4.2
20 reviews
Shenoa Schulte
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July 12, 2015
Interesting read - it expands on the first book's philosophy, but gets a little repetitive in its efforts to be clear to everyone. Lots of great tidbits to discuss or mull over in your day to day for weeks to come. Overall an easier read than the first that ties up the whole metaphysics of quality a bit more and expands the initial groundwork nicely.
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Mark Pepper
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October 9, 2022
Pockets of interesting thoughts, but a trudge to get thru. Maybe because I'm reading now in 2022 and it hasn't aged well. I did find the discussion about Victorians fascinating and astute. Rather sad about Lila's role in the story though...ending felt incomplete for me.
Luis Ibanez
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June 7, 2015
Overshadowed by his previous book. I found very interesting the exploration of morals, however it left me with the impression of being the beginning of a dogmatic position from where everything ought to be explained.
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About the author
Robert Pirsig was born in 1928 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He held degrees in chemistry, philosophy, and journalism and also studied at Benares Hindu University in India. He was the author of the classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and its sequel, Lila. He died in 2017.
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