At first, I thought it was a blatant rip off of ZAMM, and I'm still not sure if it's not. But Richardson tries to follow Pirsig's route across western America, seeking to meet some of the people in the book, and putting a number of tidbits from Pirsig's life and his writing of the book into the journey. It does end up giving a lot more insight into Pirsig, but it doesn't have nearly the depth or the complexity of ZAMM. It makes a nice journey along the way, but somehow Richardson seems to miss the point of the original and seems just like another bozo on the bus rathern than contributing anything original to what was said. I liked him by the end of the book, but it took me quite a while to warm up to him. I think he tries to show Pirsig's feet of clay, but I also think anyone would recognize that before encountering Zen and Now.
Author: Richardson, Mark
Date Published: 2008
Length: 10hr 1min
Narrator: Schirner, Buck
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