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Title: Treatise or Fiction?
Review: If this is fiction, it lacks all the necessary ingredients: plot, character development, forward movement, and crisp dialogue. If this is a philosophical treatise, the "examples" are oddly formatted. As I slogged through this, I felt like a ball being volleyed between one player wielding a tennis racquet and another holding a badminton racquet, over a net that was constantly being raised and lowered. What game are we playing here? I actually like both philosophy and fiction and there are several authors that manage to combine them subtly and seamlessly (Andrews, Castaneda, Donner. and Villoldo being some authors that come to mind). In the case of Robert Pirsig, my perception is that the strength of his writing is as an essayist philosopher and shouldn't be confused by adding the fictional element.
