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Zen and the art of motorcycle maintainance on the BBC
I have just found out that a couple of weeks ago there was a dramatisation of Robert M Persig's book Zen and the art of motorcycle maintainance on BBC radio 4. Unfortunately it is not available on iplayer and I was wondering if anybody happened to record it and could e-mail me a copy?

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I've got an mp3 copy but it's 80mb. Not sure email could handle it. PM me if you still want a copy; sure we can work something out

It wasn't bad. The book has long been deemed unfilmable but it kind of worked on radio because radio does internal monologues rather well.

It was interesting to see what they kept and what they cut out and how some dream sequences were foregrounded. A couple of the scenes felt genuinely tense. Nice listen, though it's 1hr 26 mins and not 60 mins as the BBC iPlayer claimed
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This is something I'd enjoy, too.

I've enjoyed this book -- as difficult to read as it is -- for the love and care she showed to MC riding.

I'll look online for it; I'll PM you, as well if I can't find it.
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It's easily available online if you use bittorrent but if you don't use that system then I'll have to try and upload it somewhere, which could take a while
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This is something I'd enjoy, too.

I've enjoyed this book -- as difficult to read as it is -- for the love and care she showed to MC riding.
It's a brilliant book - my sig comes from it and it single-handedly got me interested in motorbikes when I first read it at a young age.

If you find it hard going, the key is to re-read it several times. I must have read it a dozen times and could probably read it again tomorrow

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Big, big thanks. Enjoying it now!

And you're right about reading it twice. Like many of the classics, I always get something new out of them when I've read them 2 or more times.

(Except Ulysses, of course. There's no hope for that one...)
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Sorted now thanks Sennen, that is my in-tent entertainment for this evening.
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It wasn't bad. The book has long been deemed unfilmable but it kind of worked on radio because radio does internal monologues rather well.

It was interesting to see what they kept and what they cut out and how some dream sequences were foregrounded. A couple of the scenes felt genuinely tense. Nice listen, though it's 1hr 26 mins and not 60 mins as the BBC iPlayer claimed
I'm another who struggled with this book and I had to go back to it a few times, over more than a few years.
I find it hard to conceive that it has been reduced to a mere 86 minutes though - you have me wondering what has this version lost in the conversion from a complex book to an audio presentation?
Maybe I should get hold of a copy to see
Initially, I started reading this book for the bike riding aspect (I guess we all did), but the philosophy of quality came shining through as I managed to make progress; the messages in there have lost no potency with time - if anything, they are more appropriate to modern, developed nations than ever.

As for the sequel, I never did get very far into reading about Lila and her morals; nor am I sure that I want to now.

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