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Title: Brave enough not to like this classic
Review: Two stars! One for Pirsig putting pen to paper (all 514 dull pieces of them) and one for the apposite title. If Zen is patience, then I came damn close. What strength it took to not banish this book to my `begun but not finished' bookshelf. A dull pontification on the definition of `quality' (which is ironically lacking in the novel), and an unlikeable narrator who exemplifies the `genius is madness' slogan. His philosophical ramblings are not profound, just disturbed. And hellishly boring.
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