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Title: Life of Pi by Yann Martel ISBN: 0151008116 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 04 June, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33
Rating: 5
Summary: Bound to be a classic for readers of all ages!
Comment: I admit it- I read this book because I liked its cover. An overhead image of a boy curled up in a fetal position in a tiny lifeboat, with a tiger three times his size at the edge of the bow, seeming ready to attack the sharks, fish, and turtles that surround them in the clear blue water.
The novel beautifully elucidates this image into a story full of wit, anxiety, compassion, and survival as the boy uses his exceptionally sensitive demeanor to 'tame' this tiger named Richard Parker (which, incidentally, is what I will name my next pet!). Pi uses his experience and knowledge of zookeeping to conquer his fear and what he believes is the tiger's killer nature. But most of all, it is Pi's faith which leads him to survive- his faith in Allah, Buddha, and God (yes, all of them), and his faith in his fellow shipmate. This book is an amazing and unique story which I will gladly pass on to all of my friends and family, and one I will read time and again.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best books I have ever read
Comment: From the wonderful theology in the beginning of the book through the whimsical and delightful Japanese interviewers at the end of the book, Yann Martel has written something really spectacular. Pi is a charming young man and he handles his life and adventure gracefully. Aside from a few grammatical errors (we no longer seem to have capable editors in this world), the writing is excellent and outstanding. Often when I enjoy a book I am sorry to see it end but not this time. The book was complete when it finished and created a satisfying and meaningful reading experience. I hope there will be more novels.
Rating: 5
Summary: Faith
Comment: Young Pi Patel, obedient son of a zookeeper in India, has embraced Christianity, Indouism and Islam, not to make an adolescent rebellion, but simply because he has found in all three religions one single faith and global understanding of the need to believe in a higher power. The ship which carries him, his family and some of the zoo's wild animals to Canada becomes a wreck and Pi is found adrift in the Pacific Ocean with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and Richard Parker, an immense Bengal tiger. After a vicious sorting out of animal supremacy, Pi is left with Richard Parker, wondering whether he will be the next victim of his co-survivor's fury and most of all hunger.
Yann Martel is playing with the reader, shows Pi's endless quest for the one and only truth, grants him with insurmountable patience and courage and gives us one of the best buddy relationships ever to appear in literature. Pi struggles, endures famine, manages to find a modus vivendi with Richard Parker and most of all keeps his faith to ...what? Survival, life, inner power. It will be trite to call Life of Pi a great book and Martel a great and promising writer. If you have wondered how you would react under conditions of real dispair, if your fears tend to overcome your will, if the path you have chosen to lead your life makes you stop once in a while and ponder whether you are going to get lost or have already missed the true meaning of your quest (whatever that may be), then reading this book will show you not which road to take or amendments to make, but that the only thing you need to keep, precious as your life itself and maybe even more so, is faith.
The true meaning of the scenery that Martel's depicts is that irrespective of the true realms of reality, we alone carry our fears and dress them up in different shapes and forms. But we should also do the same as concerns the true essence of the power we need to overcome anything and everything that casts a shadow in our own existence. Pi fought for his life, period. Pi won. The "how" and "how could that be" is something else. You need to read it, feel it, see it for yourselves.
There are people who have loved this book and a few others who have condemned it for mediocrity. I suggest noone should fall into the trap of categorising this excellent work. It is a view of life we encounter only rarely in our literary adventures. Just embark on it and enjoy what it offers and there is plenty there.
Not only do I recommend this book, but most importantly I humbly bow to Martel's genius and imagination.
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Title: Atonement by Ian McEwan ISBN: 038572179X Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 25 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown ISBN: 0385504209 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 18 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Bel Canto: A Novel by Ann Patchett ISBN: 0060934417 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Lovely Bones: A Novel by Alice Sebold ISBN: 0316666343 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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