Life of Pi
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- ISBN13: 9781565117808
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Martel’s novel tells the tale of Pi–fleeting for Piscine–an unusual boy raised in a zoo in India. Pi’s father decides to go the family tree to live in Canada and sell the animals to the fantastic zoos of America. The ship taking them across the Pacific sinks and Pi finds himself the sole human survivor on a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra with a broken leg and Bengal tiger called Richard Parker. LIFE OF PI brings together many themes including religion, zoology, dread, and sheer tenacity. This is a amusing, wise, and highly original look at what it means to be human.Amazon.com Review
Yann Martel’s imaginative and unforgettable Life of Pi is a magical reading experience, an endless blue expanse of storytelling about adventure, survival, and ultimately, faith. The precocious son of a zookeeper, 16-year-ancient Pi Patel is raised in Pondicherry, India, where he tries on various faiths for size, attracting “religions the way a dog attracts fleas.” Preparation a go to Canada, his father packs up the family tree and their menagerie and they hitch a ride on an enormous freighter. After a upsetting shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26-foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker (“His head was the size and color of the lifebuoy, with teeth”). It sounds like a colorful setup, but these wild beasts don’t burst into song as if co-starring in an anthropomorphized Disney feature. After much gore and infighting, Pi and Richard Parker remain the boat’s sole passengers, drifting for 227 days through shark-infested waters while fighting hunger, the fundamentals, and an overactive imagination. In rich, hallucinatory passages, Pi recounts the upsetting journey as the days blur together, elegantly cataloging the endless passage of time and his struggles to survive: “It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many terrible nights to choose from that I’ve made none the champion.”
An award winner in Canada, Life of Pi, Yann Martel’s second novel, should prove to be a breakout book in the U.S. At one point in his journey, Pi recounts, “My greatest wish–additional than salvation–was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending tale. One that I could read again and again, with new eyes and fresh understanding each time.” It’s safe to say that the fabulous, fablelike Life of Pi is such a book. –Brad Thomas Parsons
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So regularly I read with amazement reviews of second rate books, like this one, that are so highly touted by professional reviewers and the reading public.
This book, although it might be amusing for some readers, is far from deserving the praise it has recieved. Let me tell you why.
The intellectual level is low. The book doesn’t offer anything but the simplest and undeveloped level of thinking about life. The leader is not widely read enough, and/or educated. The research here, if you can call it that, is sparse and smattering. The leader acts like he’s done his homework by offering us a thumbnail sketch of life in zoo’s which he’s gleaned from a couple of books. His attempts at making a foreign environment, and culture, are more like a travel log approach than anything more substantial; the same for his comparitive knowledge of world religions which sounds like it was gotten out of an encyclopedia.
The lead in to the main tale is tedious,unastute,and worth skipping, that’s as far as I got. I wasn’t convinced that things were going to get any better. In all, an eminently forgetable work.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Yes, people who cannot know the meaning that is hidden in the book judge it is touching, wonderful, adventurous, miraculous, etc.
But, it essence it supports the captivity of animals through Zoos. It condones non-vegetarianism through desperation. It is not a book that supports non-vegetarianism for reasons of health or religious text — it is pure barbarism.
And not only this, it is vividly descriptive of these vile acts.
Before we mix religions, and cloud ideologies, we must know that this book is a skewed opinion of reality. Email me at gjagannath@ucdavis.edu for more on my opinion of this.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I thought it was painfully unfunny, misleading about zoology and snide about faith. Many zoo tigers spend their lives pacing a tiny area until they get euthenized or worse to make room for baby tigers and the larger crowds and revenue they draw. And I never expect excellent things when a discussion of faith starts off with the guy declaring his spiritual development is better than that of many people. I hope the Booker will resume honoring better titles.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
“Man eating trees?” I have never read such putrid filth in my entire life. This book has the worst plot and tale of any book I have ever read. I have no Thought where the leader was able to dig up such stupid Thoughts but he must have tried pretty hard to make a book that is this terrible. The only reason I ever touched such a stining pile of dinosaur dung is because I had to read it fo a language arts project. The book is full of completely random and stupid Thoughts that it kept leaving me with questions that I sure as hell did not want answered.I reflect that the writer should be blacklisted and never alowed to publish his work ever again.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Along with Cold Mountain, this is probably the most dull piece of literature I have ever read. I kid you not. I’m 55 years ancient, so I’ve read reasonably a few in my time. I nearly threw it away a third of the way through… It’s just a lot of Blah, blah, blah with absolutely NOTHING happening. Don’t waste your money on this overly-hyped, meandering and pointless book. You have been warned !!!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5