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Sep 07, 2018
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This book has been on my bookshelf for a long time, even before the movie came out. I own the paperback, but I decided to listen to the audiobook since my library had it on Overdrive.
Piscine "Pi" Patel, a teenage boy, and his parents are bound to emigrate from India to Canada. Pi's father, who ran a zoo in Pondicherry, sold off the animals and some were put on the same ship bound for Canada that Pi's family was travelling on. The ship goes down, and Pi is thrown into a lifeboat. He sees someone ...more
Piscine "Pi" Patel, a teenage boy, and his parents are bound to emigrate from India to Canada. Pi's father, who ran a zoo in Pondicherry, sold off the animals and some were put on the same ship bound for Canada that Pi's family was travelling on. The ship goes down, and Pi is thrown into a lifeboat. He sees someone ...more
At first, I really liked this book but then it became long and very repetitive. I think it's a read that people eventually need to make in their lifetimes but there's no need to rush to do so.
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This is the kind of book that stays with you for a very long time. You find yourself thinking about the characters and comparing the overall story with the two stories Pi tells when he finally reaches land. I really liked the story, but I'm still not sure how I feel about the ending. I have gone back and forth so many times about which one I believe, that it's completely ridiculous. I think the story took a turn when both Pi and Richard Parker went blind. There must have been a reason for that,
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