Miranda Reads's Reviews> Life of Pi

Big Bois.

Everyone's heard of them. The Libraries are full of them. But are they worth it?

Click the linkfor my video review of the big bois in my life.

The Written Review:

The beginning is rough.

It's all like - Why do we keep going on and on about religion? Where's the boat? Where's the tiger?

Stop and enjoy the roses.

The book will get to the tiger part when it wants to.

Young Pi ( Piscine "Pi" Patel ) spends the first part of the book joiningthe Christian, Muslim and Hindu faiths.

It's not a matter of he can't choose a religion - it's that he is able simultaneously believe in all of them.

Thephilosophical musings and religious proseprovide an extremely interesting insight on how these religions intersect:

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

And then...you get to the tiger part!

Pi Patel's life quickly shifts from one of religious philosophy and animal care (at his family's zoo) to one of great uncertainty.

His family is closing their Indian zooand they need to travel by boat to a new county. Whatever animals they couldn't sell or trade are on the ship.

Only, something goes wrong.

Very. Wrong.

Theship is capsizingand it looks like neither human nor animal will make it out alive.

Soon, Pi finds himself on a lifeboat with a menagerie of animals and within an adventure he will surely never forget.

Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.

Note:

(view spoiler)[Was I the only one who wasupset with the ending?

I was so mad that we were given the two scenarios at the end of the story. It was like the rug was being pulled out from under me.

According to Pi, either we are to believe the tiger adventure happened or it was the alternate version: cannibalism and watching his family die in the boat.

I felt cheated and turned what was a huge triumphant moment into a truly giant downer.(hide spoiler)]

Four stars because I have a selective memory and overall enjoyed the book.

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