Review of "Lila: An Inquiry into Morals" by Robert Pirsig

I made it to about page 100 and then gave up. This is pompous, pseudy unreadable stuff, and if there are important philosophical ideas in there then I will have to find them some other way. I've had it on my bookshelf for years, thinking that I ought to read it one day because I had some vague memory of enjoying the author's first book, "Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". As I tried to plough through this I began to remember that I hadn't actually enjoyed that either...I just thought that it was somehow good for me, because it was supposed to be profound and all the cool people were reading it.

Now I know better and life is too short.