Life of Pi by Yann Martel

[Claire__]

I give this book 5 stars.

A few months ago I got talked into reading the book Life of Pi. It was not very popular with kids about my age and the movie hadn't come out yet so I was not sure I wanted to read it. It started out a little slow but once I got into it, I LOVED it. It was so exciting and there was tons of action.
The main character Pi an his family has to move. His dad owned a zoo so he is trapped on a boat full of animals sailing across the ocean when the boat starts to sink. He manages to get to a life boat full of a variety of animals. Including a tiger.
The twist at the end of the book was crazy. It left me wide eyed literally wanting to scream.
Anybody who likes a lot of action and crazy endings read NOW!!!!! Has anybody read this book? Please leave your comments on it. :-)

[Melinda]

I loved it. I've read it twice, and still don't know exactly what I believe about the ending.

[Linnea]

This was a really good book. It left me confused in a good way, I still don't know what to make of the ending or the strange fantastical parts. The sad thing about the movie is that they left out the part when he is blind, which adds to the plot twist. This book is definitely for fans of survival, adventure, AND literature. A strange combination, but an original story.

[Linda]

I've read it twice and as the second time was quite a while ago, I'm ready to read it for the third time. To me, as I see fiction literature, this is on the top of it. I mean this is the BIG literature. With the same philosophical aim and feeling and artistic metaphor one couldn't have created a better book (a different, yes). It's such an amazing achievement.
I remember I too wasn't absorb into it all at once--not during the first chapter for sure--I thought: well, what the hell is this? Because it is so not-everyday, not-conformist, not-routine. I had to re-attune myself thoroughly. Martel puts together all the religions (to point to some common ethics) and Earth and what's on it. And it doesn't flow apart into different directions, it holds together and forms a monument.
A boy in a boat on endless ocean, the only companion being a tiger--what a metaphor of human life.