Life of Pi - Yann Martel

BossArky

I enjoyed this book, just finished yesterday. Which of Pi's explanation stories did you want to believe? Has to be the animal one. I was suprised that it took until 1/3 of the way through the book before he got onto the boat.

NoDayBut2Day

This is on my "list of things to read" ... list... haha.
I heard it was really good.

BossArky

Yeah I had been hearing good things about it from people on this board over the past 12 months and eventually found it on ebay. Worth the read.

tHE vAGGABOND

yea, not a bad story at all..

JackKelly

I've had it sitting on the bottom of a big pile of "books to read" for a good while. I've heard it's meant to be great. I read a few pages in and it seemed odd but i'll have to give it another try.

tHE vAGGABOND

the first 1/4 is not amazing , but the reward for sticking by the story is really quite good indeed [like book 1 of LoTR IMHO ]

Killaqueen!!!

I read it a couple of years ago and enjoyed it, though I was confused by half of it. I didn't even know that

the animals were actually humans

i mean what the hell?!!! nobody told me until about a week ago when my mate said it to me.

Pet

BossArky wrote:

I enjoyed this book, just finished yesterday. Which of Pi's explanation stories did you want to believe? Has to be the animal one. I was suprised that it took until 1/3 of the way through the book before he got onto the boat.

It could be either. I might go back and read it again, it's that kind of book.

What about

the weird island thing? How is that explained in the humans story?

?

toomevara

For me the classic book of two halves, once he hits the boat, looses alot of its coherence and tension, well worth a read though as stylistically it's excellent.....

Crucifix

I enjoyed it, but I felt parts of it were quite dull.

piccolina

must admit its been a good year and a half since i read it...id love to reread actually cuz i dont know what i want to accept at the end....dont know how to cover spoiler but ya know what i mean...whats everyone elses take? which story must we believe?

BossArky

Yes, I would like to re-read it too if I had time just for the sake of reading it with the end in mind. However, I will leave it for a year or two or three... too much other stuff to read.

_blank_

One of my favourite books.

I read it twice, and found it to be much better the second time, with the ending in mind.

Lexus1976

This was one of the best books i've read in a good while. But it does take a while to get into it.. starts off very slowly. But its worth it.

impr0v

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v._Dudley_and_Stephens

BossArky

impr0v wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v._Dudley_and_Stephens

interesting

_blank_

Very interesting.

Wow.

davyjose

BossArky wrote:

I enjoyed this book, just finished yesterday. Which of Pi's explanation stories did you want to believe? Has to be the animal one. I was suprised that it took until 1/3 of the way through the book before he got onto the boat.

a great, very well written Novel. without a doubt I think the allusion was made that the human characters were actually those on board, and that this was his less-painful way of telling the story.

EsmeWeatherwax

This is a fantastic book. I was disappointed by the end, the way it turned out....that Wikipedia link ruins it a bit no?

theCzar

I read it and enjoyed it in the middle of all the fuss about it, but was still underwhelmed, especially the end. But I may read it again less literally and see how feel, there's only a wet afternoon's reading in it.

Psychedelic

a wonderful book, one of all time favourites, this is what classic literature is all about.

Oul Wan

I read this book a few months ago. There were parts of it that I didn't find interesting but on the whole it was a great book. Thanks for that link. That's amazing.