美国
阴间大法师 (1988) Eggplant.place 豆瓣 IMDb Min reol TMDB
Beetlejuice
7.7 (142 个评分) 导演: 蒂姆·波顿 演员: 迈克尔·基顿 / 薇诺娜·瑞德
其它标题: 비틀쥬스 / ビートルジュース
  经营着一家五金店的亚当(亚历克·鲍德温 Alec Baldwin 饰)与芭芭拉(吉娜·戴维斯 Geena Davis 饰)夫妻俩非常恩爱,两人虽然没有孩子,但把所有对彼此的爱都倾注在装扮自己的家上。这天夫妻俩出行时发生车祸,双双殒命。成为鬼魂的两夫妻不忍离开自己的家,但阴阳相隔他们只能眼睁睁看的自己的家中搬来了新主人。入住的迪兹与查尔斯一家将夫妻俩的房子大肆改造,亚当和芭芭拉想出闹鬼招数试图吓走迪兹一家却不起作用,反被迪兹喜爱呆在黑暗中的怪异女儿莉迪亚(薇诺娜·瑞德 Winona Ryder 饰)看破,做鬼也难得尊严。无计可施的夫妻俩按照亡灵手册指引,拜托流离于阴间主流之外的大法师“甲壳虫汁”(迈克尔·基顿 Michael Keaton 饰)帮助他们夺回自己的家……
星际穿越 (2014) Eggplant.place Bangumi IMDb Min reol 豆瓣 TMDB
Interstellar
9.1 (3093 个评分) 导演: Christopher Nolan 演员: Matthew McConaughey / Anne Hathaway
其它标题: Interstellar / 星际启示录(港)
世界在历经极端气候与粮食危机,地球濒临末日之际,一位电机工程师与一群专业研究者还有顶尖太空人,扛起人类史上最重要的任务,越过已知的银河,在星际间寻找未来出路。同时必须先割舍无法与家人见面的亲情牵绊,在爱与勇气、生存与挑战中,跨越星际拯救人类。
疯狂动物城 (2016) IMDb TMDB Eggplant.place Min reol 豆瓣 Bangumi
Zootopia
8.9 (2787 个评分) 导演: 拜伦·霍华德 / 瑞奇·摩尔 演员: 金妮弗·古德温 / 杰森·贝特曼
其它标题: Zootropolis / Zootropolis
故事发生在一个所有哺乳类动物和谐共存的美好世界中,兔子朱迪(金妮弗·古德温 Ginnifer Goodwin 配音)从小就梦想着能够成为一名惩恶扬善的刑警,凭借着智慧和努力,朱迪成功的从警校中毕业进入了疯狂动物城警察局,殊不知这里是大型肉食类动物的领地,作为第一只,也是唯一的小型食草类动物,朱迪会遇到怎样的故事呢?
近日里,城中接连发生动物失踪案件,就在全部警员都致力于调查案件真相之时,朱迪却被局长(伊德瑞斯·艾尔巴 Idris Elba 配音)发配成为了一名无足轻重的交警。某日,正在执勤的兔子遇见了名为尼克(杰森·贝特曼 Jason Bateman 配音)的狐狸,两人不打不相识,之后又误打误撞的接受了寻找失踪的水獭先生的任务,如果不能在两天之内找到水獭先生,朱迪就必须自愿离开警局。朱迪找到了尼克,两人联手揭露了一个隐藏在疯狂动物城之中的惊天秘密。
绿皮书 (2018) TMDB 豆瓣 IMDb Eggplant.place
Green Book
8.5 (2476 个评分) 导演: Peter Farrelly 演员: Viggo Mortensen / Mahershala Ali
其它标题: Green Book : Sur les routes du Sud / Green Book - Eine besondere Freundschaft
  托尼(维果·莫腾森 Viggo Mortensen 饰)是一个吊儿郎当游手好闲的混混,在一家夜总会做侍者。这间夜总会因故要停业几个月,可托尼所要支付的房租和生活费不会因此取消,所以他的当务之急是去寻找另一份工作来填补这几个月的空缺。在这个节骨眼上,一位名叫唐雪莉(马赫沙拉·阿里 Mahershala Ali 饰)的黑人钢琴家提出雇佣托尼。
  唐雪莉即将开始为期八个星期的南下巡回演出,可是,那个时候南方对黑人的歧视非常的严重,于是托尼便成为了唐雪莉的司机兼保镖。一路上,两人迥异的性格使得他们之间产生了很多的矛盾,与此同时,唐雪莉在南方所遭受的种种不公平的对待也让托尼对种族歧视感到深恶痛绝。
极地特快 (2004) 豆瓣 TMDB Eggplant.place
The Polar Express
7.5 (200 个评分) 导演: 罗伯特·泽米吉斯 演员: 汤姆·汉克斯 / 埃迪·狄森
其它标题: Polar Express / Polar-ekspressen
信则灵。小男孩始终坚信圣诞老人的存在,但周围的大人和玩伴都认为这只是他天真的一厢情愿。圣诞前夕,小男孩终于因为他的坚持而得到了回报,睡梦中的他忽然感到屋子颤抖起来了,一列长长的火车停在了他的家门口。当他战战兢兢打开房门时,和蔼的列车长邀请他参加北极的圣诞派对。惴惴不安的克 劳斯踏上了火车,发现很多和他一样的小伙伴们。于是,兴奋不已的小男孩开始了他的北极狂欢之旅。
2022年12月27日 看过
圣诞夜,跟孩子们一起看了。电影中小女孩的一句话,很适合评价这个电影,“符合我对圣诞节的所有想象”。电影的主线,是解决主角小男孩对圣诞老人存在的怀疑。怀疑是很常见的,若信奉“眼见为实”,那么,人们就会先是不信圣诞,接着就会不信父母,权威,政治领袖,直至上帝。然而,真的眼见到就信了吗?电影中安排了个“鬼”的角色,问小男孩,你相信“鬼”吗?小男孩说,不。这个情节就是提醒我们,我们只是相信,我们愿意相信的东西。说什么“seeing is believing”,其实都是“believing is is believing” 。信仰无需证据,只要信。况且,这个电影,让你在电影屏幕上看到了圣诞老人,精灵,麋鹿。那么,你可以信了么?
动画 喜剧 科幻 美国 美国电影
Thank You for Being Late 豆瓣
作者: Thomas L. Friedman Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016 - 11
A field guide to the twenty-first century, written by one of its most celebrated observers
We all sense it―something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your kids. You can’t miss it when you read the newspapers or watch the news. Our lives are being transformed in so many realms all at once―and it is dizzying.
In Thank You for Being Late, a work unlike anything he has attempted before, Thomas L. Friedman exposes the tectonic movements that are reshaping the world today and explains how to get the most out of them and cushion their worst impacts. You will never look at the world the same way again after you read this book: how you understand the news, the work you do, the education your kids need, the investments your employer has to make, and the moral and geopolitical choices our country has to navigate will all be refashioned by Friedman’s original analysis.
Friedman begins by taking us into his own way of looking at the world―how he writes a column. After a quick tutorial, he proceeds to write what could only be called a giant column about the twenty-first century. His thesis: to understand the twenty-first century, you need to understand that the planet’s three largest forces―Moore’s law (technology), the Market (globalization), and Mother Nature (climate change and biodiversity loss)―are accelerating all at once. These accelerations are transforming five key realms: the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics, and community.
Why is this happening? As Friedman shows, the exponential increase in computing power defined by Moore’s law has a lot to do with it. The year 2007 was a major inflection point: the release of the iPhone, together with advances in silicon chips, software, storage, sensors, and networking, created a new technology platform. Friedman calls this platform “the supernova”―for it is an extraordinary release of energy that is reshaping everything from how we hail a taxi to the fate of nations to our most intimate relationships. It is creating vast new opportunities for individuals and small groups to save the world―or to destroy it.
Thank You for Being Late is a work of contemporary history that serves as a field manual for how to write and think about this era of accelerations. It’s also an argument for “being late”―for pausing to appreciate this amazing historical epoch we’re passing through and to reflect on its possibilities and dangers. To amplify this point, Friedman revisits his Minnesota hometown in his moving concluding chapters; there, he explores how communities can create a “topsoil of trust” to anchor their increasingly diverse and digital populations.
With his trademark vitality, wit, and optimism, Friedman shows that we can overcome the multiple stresses of an age of accelerations―if we slow down, if we dare to be late and use the time to reimagine work, politics, and community. Thank You for Being Late is Friedman’s most ambitious book―and an essential guide to the present and the future.
2017年11月10日 已读
作者对2007到2016这几年的观察。
tech 美国
Who Gets What — and Why 豆瓣
作者: Alvin E. Roth Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015 - 6
A Nobel laureate reveals the often surprising rules that govern a vast array of activities — both mundane and life-changing — in which money may play little or no role.
If you’ve ever sought a job or hired someone, applied to college or guided your child into a good kindergarten, asked someone out on a date or been asked out, you’ve participated in a kind of market. Most of the study of economics deals with commodity markets, where the price of a good connects sellers and buyers. But what about other kinds of “goods,” like a spot in the Yale freshman class or a position at Google? This is the territory of matching markets, where “sellers” and “buyers” must choose each other, and price isn’t the only factor determining who gets what.
Alvin E. Roth is one of the world’s leading experts on matching markets. He has even designed several of them, including the exchange that places medical students in residencies and the system that increases the number of kidney transplants by better matching donors to patients. In Who Gets What — And Why, Roth reveals the matching markets hidden around us and shows how to recognize a good match and make smarter, more confident decisions.
How to American 豆瓣
7.4 (15 个评分) 作者: Jimmy O. Yang Da Capo Press 2018 - 3
Standup comic, actor and fan favorite from HBO's Silicon Valley and the film Crazy Rich Asians shares his memoir of growing up as a Chinese immigrant in California and making it in Hollywood.
"I turned down a job in finance to pursue a career in stand-up comedy. My dad thought I was crazy. But I figured it was better to disappoint my parents for a few years than to disappoint myself for the rest of my life. I had to disappoint them in order to pursue what I loved. That was the only way to have my Chinese turnip cake and eat an American apple pie too."
Jimmy O. Yang is a standup comedian, film and TV actor and fan favorite as the character Jian Yang from the popular HBO series Silicon Valley. In How to American, he shares his story of growing up as a Chinese immigrant who pursued a Hollywood career against the wishes of his parents: Yang arrived in Los Angeles from Hong Kong at age 13, learned English by watching BET RapCity for three hours a day, and worked as a strip club DJ while pursuing his comedy career. He chronicles a near deportation episode during a college trip Tijuana to finally becoming a proud US citizen ten years later. Featuring those and many other hilarious stories, while sharing some hard-earned lessons, How to American mocks stereotypes while offering tongue in cheek advice on pursuing the American dreams of fame, fortune, and strippers.
2018年6月26日 已读
原本希望凭借本书学一些美籍华人小孩成长经历的。
Jimmy是一个聪明孩子,只是兴趣不在学校,不在家长给安排好的路,而是自己走了一条不平常的路。
这本书通篇大白话,读起来轻松。
传记 成长 移民 美国 英文原著
The Right Side of History 豆瓣
作者: Ben Shapiro Broadside Books 2019 - 3
America has a God-shaped hole in its heart, argues New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro, and we shouldn't fill it with politics and hate.
In 2016, Ben Shapiro spoke at UC Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required from 10 UC campuses across the state to protect his speech, which was -- ironically -- about the necessity for free speech and rational debate.
He came to argue that Western Civilization is in the midst of a crisis of purpose and ideas. Our freedoms are built upon the twin notions that every human being is made in God’s image and that human beings were created with reason capable of exploring God’s world.
We can thank these values for the birth of science, the dream of progress, human rights, prosperity, peace, and artistic beauty. Jerusalem and Athens built America, ended slavery, defeated the Nazis and the Communists, lifted billions from poverty and gave billions spiritual purpose. Jerusalem and Athens were the foundations of the Magna Carta and the Treaty of Westphalia; they were the foundations of Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Civilizations that rejected Jerusalem and Athens have collapsed into dust. The USSR rejected Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, substituting a new utopian vision of “social justice” – and they starved and slaughtered tens of millions of human beings. The Nazis rejected Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, and they shoved children into gas chambers. Venezuela rejects Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, and citizens of their oil-rich nation have been reduced to eating dogs.
We are in the process of abandoning Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, favoring instead moral subjectivism and the rule of passion. And we are watching our civilization collapse into age-old tribalism, individualistic hedonism, and moral subjectivism. We believe we can reject Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law and satisfy ourselves with intersectionality, or scientific materialism, or progressive politics, or authoritarian governance, or nationalistic solidarity.
We can’t.
The West is special, and in The Right Side of History, Ben Shapiro bravely explains that it’s because too many of us have lost sight of the moral purpose that drives us each to be better, or the sacred duty to work together for the greater good, or both. A stark warning, and a call to spiritual arms, this book may be the first step in getting our civilization back on track.
The Unwinding 豆瓣
8.3 (6 个评分) 作者: George Packer Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013 - 5
American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and loser s, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political system to the verge of breakdown, and setting citizens adrift to find new paths forward. In The Unwinding, George Packer, author of The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, tells the story of the United States over the past three decades in an utterly original way, with his characteristically sharp eye for detail and gift for weaving together complex narratives.
The Unwinding journeys through the lives of several Americans, including Dean Price, the son of tobacco farmers, who becomes an evangelist for a new economy in the rural South; Tammy Thomas, a factory worker in the Rust Belt trying to survive the collapse of her city; Jeff Connaughton, a Washington insider oscillating between political idealism and the lure of organized money; and Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire who questions the Internet’s significance and arrives at a radical vision of the future. Packer interweaves these intimate stories with biographical sketches of the era’s leading public figures, from Newt Gingrich to Jay-Z, and collages made from newspaper headlines, advertising slogans, and song lyrics that capture the flow of events and their undercurrents.
The Unwinding portrays a superpower in danger of coming apart at the seams, its elites no longer elite, its institutions no longer working, its ordinary people left to improvise their own schemes for success and salvation. Packer’s novelistic and kaleidoscopic history of the new America is his most ambitious work to date.
2021年2月1日 已读
2021年2月3日 评论 解体 - 书名叫做解体。 很多书评也在写,这是美国40年来逐渐解体的过程。然而,美国为什么解体,其实并没有什么讨论或者insight。 美国出现对立的局面,书中写的最集中的表现,就是占领华尔街了吧。 占领华尔街运动时,我在纽约。我的同事还去过,去录了像。 占领华尔街运动,其实不能算是个运动,因为他并没有什么领导,也没什么诉求。或者说,每个人都有不同的诉求,或这想法。他们只是愤怒,只想用行动表达。于是,几乎什么也没有达成。 造成占领华尔街运动出现的,最直接的,应该是政府对华尔街的接盘。2008年次贷危机后,大机构大而不倒,政府用纳税人的钱注资这些大机构。而对于直接受害者,那些因为次贷危机而失去家园的人们,政府基本没有作为。 这种愤怒一直就没有消失。但,也不是08年才有的。 返回美国历史,与政府的对抗,一直就没有停过。越战时候的垮掉的一代,不也是一幅要解体的样子? 现在民主党控制参众两院,总统提出要Unity,不也是应对美国一幅要解体的样子? 美国的两党制,大家选总统时,不就得选边站? 群体心理学很清楚的,把两个群体以任何形式分开,都会造成群体内部的人内部认同和外部排斥,看上去就分裂的样子。 美国的解体,从两党制开始,就种下了。 跟经济下滑美国关系,跟如何解释经济下滑有关系。跟精英政治其实关系也不大,跟种族问题关系也不大。而是人们格子选边站,然后污名化另一方,与另一方势不两立开始。
政治 美国 美国历史
好的经济学 豆瓣
Good Economics for Hard Times
6.3 (7 个评分) 作者: [美] 阿比吉特·班纳吉 / [法] 埃斯特·迪弗洛 译者: 张缘 / 蒋宗强 中信出版集团 2020 - 4
为什么移民给经济带来的影响,不遵循供求规律?为什么贸易会导致失业率上升和工资下降?谁曾经真正解释了增长的原因和发生的时机?
从新德里到达喀尔,从巴黎到华盛顿特区,移民问题、收入差距、全球化困局、技术颠覆、经济增长放缓、气候变化加速等问题随处可见,如何妥善处理这些问题,或许是我们这个时代的核心挑战。我们已然拥有了应对这些挑战的资源,但缺乏能够帮助我们消弭分歧、重建互信的理念,以及,我们常常错用了经济学。
在这本革命性的著作中,2019年诺贝尔经济学奖得主、麻省理工学院著名经济学家班纳吉和迪弗洛直面上述挑战,以明晰优雅的笔触阐述了经济学领域的前沿研究成果,提出了诸多富有创新和启发性的解决方案,以令人信服的理由阐释了我们应该采取哪些明智之举,以应对经济增长、移民、贫困等迫切挑战。
2021年3月16日 已读
2021年3月16日 评论 作者想要人们了解经济学家如何回答社会问题 - 作者们的上一本书,叫做《 Poor Economics》,副标题是A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty,专注讲作者们在全球贫困问题上所做的一些工作,也兼顾讲这个议题下其他的科学,政策,商业,政府,民间等组织,为客服贫困问题所做的工作。重点在经济学研究。 作者们的这一本书,叫做《Good Economics for Hard Times》。取名字时,其实是和上一本书做了呼应。Poor除了是贫穷的意思,也有“不好”的,蹩脚,差的意思。比如, I speak poor English的意思就是“我英语说不好”。 除了这一点小心思,小文字游戏,两本书的内容其实一脉相承。比如,本书的最后一章,仍然专门讲了贫困问题。在本书第一章的介绍之后,讲移民问题的时候,也是从贫穷问题入手的。比如,贫穷并不足以让人们离乡背井去移民或搬迁。移民不会使得当地工资降低。 但这一本书的野心,其实比前一本书大。前一本书,其主要目的还是在如何改变消除世界贫困,并对一些观点看法用数据和实验的形式予以指导和验证。但是这本书,明显是想给当下欧美的政治开药方。 《Good Economics for Hard Times》中的hard times,不是其他什么时候,就是指当下的美国,西欧等国家出现的政治分裂。作者们似乎对特朗普当政,英国脱欧和其他一些国家民族主义抬头很不安。他的这本书里的“Good economics”专门用来试图debunk这些当权者的一些政治言论,比如,移民是不好的,移民都是穷人。比如特朗普的贸易战是否会使得美国工人受益。资源(金钱,教育机会等)如何在不同种族阶层之间进行再分配。如何在穷国和富国实现经济增长。如何面对自动化带来的工人失业和再就业问题。如何面对气候变暖和其他的环境问题,政府如何制定政策帮助人们有尊严的战胜贫困。还探讨了UBI的问题。 作者尽量克制了自己的政治倾向,而试图提出问题,对争论的各方的意见和方法均有呈现。他想要在这个过程中,呈现“好的”经济学,向读者呈现经济学家大体上是如何试图解决这些问题的。然而,他们还是某些地方,明显了表达了自己的政治倾向:比如在援引特朗普在Virginia 的Charlseton的暴力事件之后的反映时,他他们采取的是美国左派媒体的对事件的解读,认为Trump支持白人至上。 对待移民问题的的看法,也同样没有区分非法移民与合法移民见的区别。 这种偏见很容易让作者在右派读者中非常容易引起怀疑,丧失说服力。 无论怎样,作者其实非常聪明的采取了不回答问题,只是展现其他学者的看法和方法上。只除了最后一章回归自己的本专业,扶贫问题的时候,才重申了自己的工作发现。 对于我个人来说,本书让我了解了经济学家们都是在做些什么的。但并没有是我对经济学家更信任,虽然作者试图达到的目的,就是提高民众对经济学家的了解,而增加对他们的信任。 问题在于,对这些问题之所以有争论,就是因为经济学的研究很少只有一种确定答案的情况。也很少能找出因果关系。社会经济问题纷繁复杂,经济学有经济学的看法,政治家有政治家的看法,普通民众有普通民众的看法,都是没问题的。不像是物理化学这样的学科,是有唯一答案,而没有个人看法的生存之地的。即便是经济学家之间,对同样的问题,也常常做出不同的解读,给出不同的建议。 **但是,用实验的方法,数据分析的方法去探索人人都能发表意见的领地,本身就是一件有趣的事儿。 基于此,书仍值得一读。**
移民 经济 经济学 美国 贫穷
一想到还有95%的问题留给人类,我就放心了 豆瓣 Goodreads
We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
7.9 (22 个评分) 作者: [巴拿马] 豪尔赫•陈 / [美] 丹尼尔·怀特森 译者: 苟利军 / 张晓佳 北京联合出版公司 2018 - 12
这是一本“逆向科普”的科普书。你以为你知道的事情,其实连世界顶尖科学家都不知道。这本书告诉你那些“顶尖科学家都不知道的事情” 。但这并非一本“答案”之书。本书旨在告诉你人类最前沿科学的边界,带领你一起从未知探索到已知。
这是一本趣味和严谨并存的科普书。一个科学家,放弃科研,改画漫画。20年后,他邀请一位顶尖科学家共同创作了这本“科普未知”的科普书。
这是一本你不看就会“落伍”的科普书。为什么“黑洞” “暗物质” “暗能量”“宇宙”“平行空间”等概念对人类有着深深的吸引力?那是因为它们是“未知”的。只有未知的事物才能勾起人类强大的好奇心而好奇心正是人类发展的源动力。
医生的修炼 豆瓣
8.6 (18 个评分) 作者: [美国] 阿图·葛文德 译者: 欧冶 浙江人民出版社 2015 - 8
新手医生阿图满怀抱负进入梦想中的白色巨塔,他将遇到哪些意想不到的试炼?硬着头皮第一次拿起手术刀的他,将如何处理突如其来的变故?在错误切开病人气管的时候,他如何面对从手边一丝丝逝去的生命?在“成功是常态,失败就是一条人命”的职业生涯中,在每一个或者温暖或惊悚的病例故事背后,都是生与死的殊死较量。
本书精选了14个主题,从不同侧面展现了医生所面对的世界的不确定性,和做抉择时需要考虑的复杂因素。一个个医学现象背后,是外科医生群体的自我审视与修炼。
适合医疗界人士、政策制定者和普通大众阅读。
The Buddha in the Attic 豆瓣
作者: Julie Otsuka Anchor 2012 - 3
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award For Fiction
National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book
A gorgeous novel by the celebrated author of When the Emperor Was Divine that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” nearly a century ago. In eight unforgettable sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the extraordinary lives of these women, from their arduous journeys by boat, to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; from their experiences raising children who would later reject their culture and language, to the deracinating arrival of war. Once again, Julie Otsuka has written a spellbinding novel about identity and loyalty, and what it means to be an American in uncertain times.
2023年4月10日 已读
看题目以为是本讲佛陀的书,所以借来读。结果内容是美国的日本女性移民的故事。不个人视角,而是集体的,千百个人的经历凝结成的“我们的故事”。我们通过照片和信件相亲,坐船去美国的国度,寻找自己的丈夫。漫长的海上路程,我们怀着忐忑和憧憬完成。等待我们的丈夫,多多少少都说了谎,关于职业,财产,长相,我们也是。新国度的生活并不是享福,我们要劳作,家里,地里,果园。我们生子,家里,地里,果园。我们勤劳的名声传出去,进入白人的家里做仆妇。仍是劳作。我们经营农场,果园,餐馆,洗衣店……孩子们长大,喝牛奶吃培根,长得比父辈粗壮,说的一口好英语。然后,战争爆发,先是有的日本人被当作间谍。然后,所有的日本人,都消失。小说最后一节,叙述日本人一夜消失后,另一个集体性的“我们”的感受。而佛,静静地看着一切吗?
二战 小说 日本 移民 美国
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 豆瓣
9.6 (5 个评分) 作者: Robert M Pirsig William Morrow & Company 2005 - 8
A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions on how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence, this classic is a touching and transcendent book of life.</p>
This new edition contains an interview with Pirsig and letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book came to be.</p>This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.