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Life of Pi

Yann Martel

Start date: February 1, 2013

Finish date: February 28, 2013

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Feb 2013 -Life of Pi

* Part 1, Chapter 1 - 18 *might contain spoilers*
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Feb 19, 2012 Emong rated it it was amazing

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Life of Pi was about a young man who managed to survive a lot of tragedy which weathered not only his faith and belief but also his knowledge about life. Pi Patel, our protagonist, was a son of a zookeeper in India. Together with his family they are on their way to migrate to Canada but unluckily their ship sunk and took the life of all his love ones as well as their animals. He was wedged on a lifeboat together with a tiger, a hyena, a zebra, and an orangutan. The tiger soon diminished the othe ...more

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Feb 01, 2013 Beth Pizzuto rated it it was ok

I would say that this is closer to 2.5 stars simply because the ending was wonderful but the slow, journey-like plot was too slow and gory for me. A modern Odyssey?

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Jan 27, 2013 Inda rated it it was amazing

I've been at the struggling point of my life with religions, theism, and atheism. Reading this book has put me in the track where I can see more points and perspectives about those things Im struggling with.

Glad that the universe pushed me to read it - for the need of book's discussion by this weekend. I must say I had a hard time concentrating on the first few pages, I thought it was a bit boring but then I found what might caused such feeling; because I was reading two books at once, when anot ...more

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