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Arguably one of the most profoundly important essays ever written on the nature and significance of "quality" and definitely a necessary anodyne to the consequences of a modern world pathologically obsessed with quantity. Although set as a story of a...(more) cross-country trip on a motorcycle by a father and son, it is more nearly a journey through 2,000 years of Western philosophy. For some people, this has been a truly life-changing book.(less)
This book is more a novel than a handbook. But more an inquiry into a cohesive philosophy of life than a story. I read this book several years ago, but still think fondly of the new understanding I have of quality that I gleamed from this book.
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This book is more a novel than a handbook. But more an inquiry into a cohesive philosophy of life than a story. I read this book several years ago, but still think fondly of the new understanding I have of quality that I gleamed from this book.