** spoiler alert ** I felt cheated by this. I wanted to believe in God after finishing this but was left with a feeling of disappointment and irritation.

I wanted it to be a magical experience
I bet the movie's gonna suck

This book will make you believe in God? That’s complete tosh! I felt harangued throughout the book just as much as someone might feel when talking to a person steeped in excessive religiosity.


Technical faults

I quite enjoyed it the first time i read it but looking through it again the writing doesn't seem to be brilliant and the metaphors Martel uses doesn't seem to be an organic part of the passage in which they occur.
Plus - there is a lot of stuff about religion and i feel like he was preaching doctrine which Virginia Woolf warned about in writing.

My reading was marked with a complete inability to suspend my disbelief.

And the idea of getting stuck on a boat with a tiger is completely implausible and I couldn't suspend my disbelief.