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"Ok, so I'm starting to enjoy it. How will he & Richard Parker survive?" — Jul 22, 2009 01:48PM
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Read in July, 2009
What starts out as a story of a teenager in India and his quest for finding a connection with God by secretly sampling several religions, becomes a very grown-up tale about the importance of having faith, learning to survive, and maybe even learning to love the life that God has given us.
The book is not religious and the use of the word 'God' is used seldom in the book for the amount of spirituality and faith in this story. This is not a churchly or sectarian book in any way, but it is dee...more
The book is not religious and the use of the word 'God' is used seldom in the book for the amount of spirituality and faith in this story. This is not a churchly or sectarian book in any way, but it is dee...more
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a brilliant book, but gets points off for the out-of-the blue, tedious "mysterious island" section, where it strays into the land of fantasy sci-fi for no good reason. too bad, because the rest of the novel is such a great book about story telling and the importance of narrative fiction.
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Although nonsensical, this book is one of those wonderful wierd stories of a boy who survives on a raft with a tiger. The main character is also practices three religions at once. I remember being confused by the ending.
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