Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance has a number of interesting aspects to it.
I've read it several times, and each time have brought something different away from it. (can't for the life of me remember what each of those things were, of course)
It was originally recommended to me by a friend who was SO into the book that he bought copies of it whenever he found it for cheap (25 cent copies at the bookswap were not unusual finds for a while) and would hand it out to people he felt needed to be enlightened.
We would sit and have long discussions about Phaedrus and the notion of "quality" ....
That was back in college, which is where most folks find ZatAoMM for the first time.
I reread it a couple years back when a big anniversary edition was published ...
Time and experience drastically changes perception.
Here's my take on it now.
Phaedrus was CRAZY. Off the deep end mad as a hatter crazy. (He's not as, but continuing to be crazy in
Lila)