I would agree that I haven’t found Pirsig’s work to be the most life changing. It’s much more life affirming, and ‘hey, that’s what I’ve been thinking, but not

I would agree that I haven’t found Pirsig’s work to be the most life changing. It’s much more life affirming, and ‘hey, that’s what I’ve been thinking, but not quite putting my finger on!’ The same could be said for my recent dive into David Foster Wallace. Absolutely loving reading his writing, but more affirmation of my own thoughts than expansion. I also realize this is probably because I’m reading both decades after publication, which means time has caught up to their ahead of the curve ideas. The most I’ve gotten out of a book, in terms of altering the way I think about the world and life, is Simone De Beauvoir and the Ethics of Ambiguity. Man, I love me some Simone.