I really enjoyed this book — its final lines even surpassed The Great Gatsby as my favorite closing lines of a novel. But I couldn’t find myself justifying a rating higher than 4/5 when I broke it down and tried to explain what exactly I enjoyed so much in it. I caught myself after a few minutes, smiled, and realized in some ways that’s what Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was all about. I’m a very analytical person. I think that isn’t particularly surprising considering I...