Well, it belongs in a fiction section, with extra copies floating around in a Zen or Motorcycle section... I understand bookstores do these things..

But I just thought it was a little funny because the front cover of the book says:

"[this book] should in no way be associated with the great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It's not very factual on motorcycles either."

This is a true statement.

wow, nice to find this tribe!

I've probably read it ten times, and yes, every time I'm affected in different ways. The first time I read it I had this huge :"holy shit, I'm not alone" experience. Then I was motorcycling cross country, headed for Bozeman. When I got there I looked in the phone book and found Robert DeWeese; called him, met him at one of his wife's art shows. He didn't have a whole lot to say that I didn't already know: that Bob Pirsig was a strange duck, and sometimes quite difficult, but it was very cool to just find the guy in the Bozeman phone book and say "hi".