Life of Pi A Novel

A great book exploring the concept of reality and the horizons of human mind unleashing themselves in the vastness of solitute. This novel does not provide you with nice and neat answers easy to swallow but makes you think and choose your own truth, your own story. An incredible read.

It's remarkable that I've managed to read two stories of survival at sea within the same week not knowing what the subject matter of either one is. Life of Pi is my second attempt at reading Martel and I cannot express how different of a read it is from my first experience. Interestingly, Martel himself distances himself from his first novel but associates himself deeply with this one. I like...more

It's remarkable that I've managed to read two stories of survival at sea within the same week not knowing what the subject matter of either one is. Life of Pi is my second attempt at reading Martel and I cannot express how different of a read it is from my first experience. Interestingly, Martel himself distances himself from his first novel but associates himself deeply with this one. I like them both - on grounds very different from each other, but still... one can't help but wonder. This is a story that comes with a preamble that does not set up the rest of the story, but sets up our understanding of the main character. When he survives seven months at sea in circumstances more dire than any other story written, expressed or imagined I've so far heard, we are made to believe him, unlike the investigators that question him. Whether his story is a story, or truth itself does not matter much. Whether this story makes us believe in God as the author was assured by his storyteller that it would... also does not matter (to some extent). It is a wonder because it works as well as a document as it does as a story. And it's a wonder, either way. I was happy to read this story and it made me optimistic about something unnameable. And it's always good when a labourer skilled at his trade can still be amazed by something he cannot figure out many years into his practice and smiles about it... ;)   hide

If you like the films of M Night Shyalmanalamanananam, you'd probably dig this.

Really interesting and a very trippy story. A must read.