It is positively the best book I have ever read. I have three copies of it, along with a guide book. I greatly anticipated Pirsig's second book (the title was "Lila"), and it was awful. I read Zen long before I got my first motorcycle, but I was always interested in them, so the title was probably responsible for me reading it the first time. Every opportunity I get, I try to convince other folks to read it. When I suggest it I usually get a strange look, but what the heck....