Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work

I had huge expectations for this book. After all, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is my all-time favorite read.

Shop Class was a huge disappointment, probably due to my huge expectations. It reads with a mix of the stilted verbosity of academia and the incomprehensible (to me) vocabulary of mechanics. I kept reading, hoping to see why others liked it, but it did not happen for me.

Love to know what others liked about this book. It is the rare read that I trudged through, flipping ahead on almost every page, hoping to reach the end.