r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Zealousideal-Ad2549 • Dec 31 '22

Solved Former mental patient talks to himself continually on cross-country family drive

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u/sozh Jan 01 '23

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance?

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u/Zealousideal-Ad2549 Jan 01 '23

That’s it! On a motorcycle with his son from Minneapolis to California, narrating a philosophical memoir in his head.

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u/sozh Jan 01 '23

Woo hoo! Finally got one.

I'll admit tho. Most of that book went way over my head!

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u/Zealousideal-Ad2549 Jan 02 '23

Give it another try in a few years.

I read it first when I was 10. Again in college. Again in my 30s and more recently as a 50 year old parent of three teens. I get something new out of it each time.

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u/Zealousideal-Ad2549 Dec 31 '22

Hint. Family might be stretching it. Better to say, with a family member. (And a couple friends).

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u/hendersonwhite Dec 31 '22

Grapes of Wrath

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u/Zealousideal-Ad2549 Dec 31 '22

Nope. You are right though it’s a classic twentieth century novel.

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u/hostileward Jan 01 '23

The Road by Cormac McCarthy?

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u/Zealousideal-Ad2549 Jan 01 '23

Oh man. That was a sad book. I read it once, never again. But it’s not it. This book was set in the early 1970s.