Life of Pi – part deux

Title: Life of Pi

Author: Yann Martel

Genre:LiteraryAdventure

Read: November 18-20, 2013

Summary: Effective and Affecting

The film version of Life of Pi stuck with me for days. I’mfascinatedby the transmutation stories undergo from one medium to another, and in the middle of adapting my own novel Untimed, so I picked up the book. Plus, when a film is based on a novel, the later is usually superior.

This is true here. The book is deeper and itsallegoricalpresentation much clearer, but the film trans...