Summary: While on a motorcycle trip across the country with his son, the narrator reflects on the philosohpical musings of his previous self.
Reaction: I can't help but think of that line from a song, "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen." Maybe trouble isn't relevant to my life at the moment, but it does seem to be the case that nobody knows what my experience is. This book is written on a far deeper level than people tend to experience on a day-to-day basis. And that's why it took me so long to read it: I needed to find the time to actually absorb it, to understand what it just said and how that fit with what it said previously so I'd have a foundation for the rest of the book. And I think that's what must be done with this book: one must take the time to reflect on what it says whether this has any applications in ones own life. This isn't a book that one reads simply for the sake of reading it. Overall, I really enjoyed this book but I wish I'd been able to finish it over a shorter period of time.
Why I read this book: We read an excerpt of it in philosophy class ~4 years ago now, and it intrigued me and I was interested in reading the rest of the book and then for whatever reason I didn't (didn't have time, forgot about it, etc.), and then last summer one of my friends happened to mention it and I was like "Oh yeah, I was planning to read that, wasn't I?" and then I didn't (did I ever mention how bloody many other books I collected to read last summer?) and then a conversation finals week with the same friend about a different book reminded me and after that I finally found a copy (mostly because I went to the library within about an hour of recalling an interest in reading this book)
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