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Life of Pi
Product: Life of Pi
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List Price: $15.00
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Manufacturer: Harvest Books
Book written by: Yann Martel
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Product Description: Life of Pi
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780156027328
ISBN: 0156027321
Label: Harvest Books
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2003-05-01
Publisher: Harvest Books
Studio: Harvest Books
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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-old Pi Patel is raised in Pondicherry, India, where he tries on various faiths for size, attracting "religions the way a dog attracts fleas." Planning a move to Canada, his father packs up the family and their menagerie and they hitch a ride on an enormous freighter. After a harrowing 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 elements, and an overactive imagination. In rich, hallucinatory passages, Pi recounts the harrowing 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 bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion." An award winner in Canada (and winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize), 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--other than salvation--was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. 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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Summary: Couldn't Put It Down
Comment: 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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Summary: very entertaining, but a bit of a weak ending
Comment: i thoroghly enjoyed reading this book. the imagination and execution of the the author's writing style is of high quality. the cadence and movement of the plot was impeccable.
my criticism, however, is in the implicit theme in the conclusion of the book that implies that epic stories and myths that come from the long lost past (and are often found in religion), if they can't be proven, must therefore not have happened. the lost city of troy was for so long considered to be a complete myth. well, we now know it existed. and almost exactly as it was described in the illiad! moreover, if we didn't have the actual specimens here to show/befuddle us, we wouldn't believe that the ancient pyramids could possibly have been constructed with an engineering ability far greater than our technologically enabled one.
i agree that great meaning, both individually and collectively as a society, can come from ancient myths that have been passed down from the centuries. however, i think it is a true mistake, and a symptom of ignorance and arrogance, to discredit the possibility of events occurring in human kind's distant past that seem very implausable and remote to us in this day and age. many of the events that took place in the seminal times of the great religions quite possibly did indeed occur and weren't simply the results of a creative scribes imagination. quite honestly, much stranger things than a tiger and boy sharing a raft at sea for a year have probably happened during the course of history.
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Summary: Great Story...I miss Richard Parker now that the story is over
Comment: 25 June 2008 - Great Story...it nice to read fiction again. I have been on a kick on non fiction for way too long.
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Summary: Great book, incredible ending
Comment: A great book that I couldn't put down. I had heard people either loved or hated this book and I absolutely loved this book. The last line I let out a great laugh. Just to give you an idea of how much I couldn't put this book down, I finished this book over the course of the week before my wedding and during the honeymoon. An awesome book that I think you should read.
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Summary: An Indian boy, a Bengal tiger, and the ocean on a journey to God
Comment: I'd heard a bit about Life of Pi by Yann Martel, not much, but the title was familiar. I wish that someone had said to me in 2001 when it came out that I needed to read this book. Seriously, shaken me by the shoulders saying: Read this book! Pi Patel is a serious minded 16 year old boy who is traveling with his family from India to Canada with a few of their animals from their zoo. But the Japanese cargo ship they are traveling on soon sinks leaving Pi alone in a life boat with an injured zebra, an orangutan, a hyena, and a Bengal tiger. The animals soon lay waste to each other until only the tiger, named Richard Parker, and Pi are left to travel 277 days across the Pacific Ocean. How does a boy who calls himself Hindu, Christian, and Muslim survive against a monstrous predator when he is the only prey within reach? Pi narrates his story with great humility. As he recounts each act he took to protect himself from the tiger and then provide for the two of them, you can't help but marvel at both his ingenuity and his spirit. This is one of those carefully crafted novels where each paragraph is a marvel of grace and fluidity. Martel upsets the apple cart a bit in the end forcing the reader to decide which story they would choose, and in the end, which view of life as well. It's a powerful novel beautifully told.
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