How long does it take to read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?
An Inquiry Into Values
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig takes about 7 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 43 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1974. 421 pages, about 115,775 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 78 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live and a meditation on how to live better. The narrative of a father on a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest with his young son, it becomes a profound personal and philosophical odyssey into life's fundamental questions. A true modern classic, it remains at once touching and transcendent, resonant with the myriad confusions of existence and the small, essential triumphs that propel us forward.
Subjects: Pirsig, Robert M., Biography, Description and travel, Fathers and sons, Journeys, Maintenance and repair
