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Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
by Yann Martel
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Once, while riding the bus, I told a friend I hated this book. A guy I'd never met turned around to tell me that he was shocked and this was a beautiful book. I can sum up my hatred of this book by saying this: At the end of the book a character asks "Do you prefer the story with animals or without?" I can say with conviction I prefer the story without the animals--the stupid, boring, symbolic animals.
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Sep 15, 2008 06:47am
I liked it because I listened to it on CD, in the car, where I was too distracted to consider the stupid, boring, symbolic animals. I just listened to the story without giving it too much thought. I'm a bad driver. I can't intellectualize & manuever a car safely!
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It was awful. For the first time in my life, I threw a book into the trash when I was done. That's what I thought of it!
I understand how you feel that way when you first get to the end, but after you thought about it and some time went by - did you change your mind at all?
i loved life of pi. can't a book just be interesting without everybody reading all thses symbols and meanings into it, only to hate them?
