After reading 20 pages of Yann Martel's Life of Pi, I was not enthusiastic at all about reading it. It was a very weird book about a kid named Piscine living in India who just talked about random things.
But I am so glad I stuck with it.
Life of Pi is an excellent book. It is much like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, but much, much better. The first half of the book is devoted to Piscine explaining himself. He is an Indian teenager. His father is a zookeeper. Piscine Molitor Patel was born and raised a Hindu, but adopted Christian and Muslim beliefs in addition to his Hindu faith. Piscine was teased by the other schoolkids because of a word his name sounded like, so he gave himself the nickname "Pi", and it stuck.
Near the middle of the book, Piscine's family gets fed up with Indira Gandhi and the Indian government, so they decide to sell all of their animals and move to Toronto. The second half of the book is the main storyline. While in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a great storm arises. Piscine is the sole survivor. The bad news is that now Piscine is in a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific with a Bengal tiger.
Life of Pi is very introspective. I personally loved it, but most of my friends did not. The book has little or no action at all, and can be very boring to any reader that thrives on adrenaline. A good 200 pages is just Piscine talking about himself and his interests (while foreshadowing events from the second half of the book), so that may bore many people.
All in all, I implore any patient reader to get Life of Pi. It is definitely worth it.
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Pi-Yann-Martel/dp/0156030209/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215633260&sr=1-1
Grade: 8.5
But I am so glad I stuck with it.
Life of Pi is an excellent book. It is much like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, but much, much better. The first half of the book is devoted to Piscine explaining himself. He is an Indian teenager. His father is a zookeeper. Piscine Molitor Patel was born and raised a Hindu, but adopted Christian and Muslim beliefs in addition to his Hindu faith. Piscine was teased by the other schoolkids because of a word his name sounded like, so he gave himself the nickname "Pi", and it stuck.
Near the middle of the book, Piscine's family gets fed up with Indira Gandhi and the Indian government, so they decide to sell all of their animals and move to Toronto. The second half of the book is the main storyline. While in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a great storm arises. Piscine is the sole survivor. The bad news is that now Piscine is in a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific with a Bengal tiger.
Life of Pi is very introspective. I personally loved it, but most of my friends did not. The book has little or no action at all, and can be very boring to any reader that thrives on adrenaline. A good 200 pages is just Piscine talking about himself and his interests (while foreshadowing events from the second half of the book), so that may bore many people.
All in all, I implore any patient reader to get Life of Pi. It is definitely worth it.
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Pi-Yann-Martel/dp/0156030209/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215633260&sr=1-1
Grade: 8.5
