26. Read a book of your choice

[Martha]

An easy, open prompt - just tell us what you read and what you thought!

[Martha]

For this prompt, I read Life of Pi. I was pretty underwhelmed with this one, it didn't help that the book positions itself as a story that'll 'make you believe in God'...?!

Most of the book is just Pi, drifting along the ocean, stuck in a boat with a tiger. The problem I had with this, is that right at the beginning, you meet older Pi. So you know Pi survives his ordeal. Which means the pages and pages of ocean drifting have absolutely zero tension, because you know he doesn't die!! There's also a really random bit at the ending which I won't spoil, but for me it undermined the whole book. I still gave it three stars as I appreciated the lyrical language an incredible fantasy that the author created, it's just a shame the story itself wasn't great.