Life of Pi | Yann Martel | Couldn't Put It Down

Life of Pi | Yann Martel | Magnificent story

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Life of Pi

	Life of Pi Yann Martel Harvest Books, 2003 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 1821 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes.

The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional--but is it more true?

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Couldn't Put It Down

I read this book 3 years ago and was looking up the author on Amazon to recommend it to a friend and I couldn't believe it only has an average of 4 stars. Of course i remember the story but I can't remember every nuance that moved me and put such light in my heart. So without giving away details I will just say that there is a lot of symbolism and underlying meanings going on so even though it was fiction I felt like a better person for reading such a beautiful story. I gave it to a friend when his grandfather died and he said that was the perfect novel to have with him during that time. Hope you enjoy as much as we did.

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Magnificent story

This book is simply incredible. It felt like I was reading "The Old Man and the Sea" all over again. Martel weaves a beautiful tale that asks the reader to suspend disbelief for a while and delivers a classic in taking that risk. This book stays with the reader long after it is placed down.

A satirist equal to Jonathan Swift

I don't often review books that have 1800 reviews already, but I couldn''t resist.
Yann Martel is not only a consumate story teller but he does what a great novelist and satirist should: he make us think about our own folly and the folly of the world.
We get suckered right in from the absurd beginning with Pi an India boy named after a French swimming pool who grows up in a zoo with a tiger named Richard Parker.We fill out how all this came to be in good time.
Pi is a spiritually curious young boy and a practicing Hindu, Muslim, Christian all of which he practiced diligently until the religious authorities became infuriated and demanded his unwavering devotion to their one true path. This might be solely a jab at the state and absurdity of modern religion, except right now in India there is a village where the people joinly practice Islam and Hinduism and likewise the great Poobahs have decided that they could pracice religion that way.

We move on and Pi and his family are on their way to Canada zoo and all when the ship sinks and Pi, an hyena and Richard Parker the tiger are stranded alone on a life boat where Pi all but abandons religions in the name of day to day survival. What follows is a thrillingly probable, improbable set of adventures.

In case we miss some of the finer points, there are study question

Buy this box if you like entertainment or or if you want to delve deeper into the danger abyss of challenging our own believe systems

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Enjoyable and Refreshing

Perhaps what I liked most about this book is the fresh and unique story it told. Person lost at sea, what's so unique about that? Not much, but what is unique is the way the character deals with his dilemma, as well as his unlikely companions. The psychological twist at the end will have you introspectively engaged long after you finish the novel. I don't often read novels twice, but I picked this one up again just to make sure I didn't miss anything. Delightful, and quite sharable, you'll want to pass it along when you're finished.

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