Kindle, 480 pages
Published Dec. 13, 2006 by Seal Books.
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan… and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary works of fiction in recent years.
the struggle to stay alive in the story is mind blowing and the friendship as i consider it that grew up between the two main lead is amazing even though it's an animal and i seriously find it personally amusing
I read this a long time ago because a friend suggested it, but I remember enjoying it. (Definitely more than I did the movie)
I saw the movie first, and found it a visual feast, but I enjoyed the book a bit more. The lengthy first person narrative provides both a constant thread of humor and also an almost stream of consciousness philosophical musing. I read the critical reception in the wikipedia entry with the various philosophical messages attached to it (wikipedia calls it a "Canadian philosphical novel" which are three words I never thought I'd see together) but it is perhaps best enjoyed if you just read along and don't try to read too much into it.
Consistently entertaining. You'll fly through it.
Der erste Teil des Romans, das mit dem Ausprobieren des Glaubens, wirkt ein wenig wie ein Lückenfüller, um das Buch dicker zu machen. Die eigentliche Story ist dann aber packend erzählt. Der absolute Überlebenswille zählt! Und das gibt Mut und ist klasse!
In general, I liked the book, but I found the incessant animal death and injury distressing. At one point, I rushed out to DoesTheDogDie.com to see if Richard Parker lived.
Anyway.
As for the two endings, I reject the version "without animals." I don't know what that says about me, though.
Meh.
I watched the film and it was amazing!!! Can't wait to read the book :)
I started off with a children's book. Now I'm done reading, half mesmerized and half shocked. The way the story was built up, caught me completely off-guard, with equal shares of pleasant surprises and bitter truths.
It's all about hope and the perceiving the beauty around us.
Now, to watch the movie.
Enjoyed reading this, although things kept getting stranger and more fantastical as it went along. Loved and was disappointed as things wrapped up, but made it worth having read all the way to the end.
Das Buch war toll, von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite eine faszinierende Geschichte. Sie begann anders als erwartet mit dem Leben der Familie Patel in Indien und Pis Glauben sowohl an den Hinduismus, den Islam und das Christentum. Das Leiden auf dem Rettungsboot war gut nachvollziehbar und das Ende mit der alternativen Geschichte für die zwei JApaner vom Verkehrsministerium sehr überraschend.
This is one of the few books that I heard a lot about before reading it, but ended up liking it even more than I expected.
An interesting adventure that took a little too long to get going. Prior to Pi arriving on the boat I felt the story dragged, but once the boat showed up so did the story. There were times I felt this story was too whimsical, too make believe, but everything made sense in the end and the conclusion left me satisfied. I didn't read this book seeking a deeper meaning, I enjoyed the tale and looked at the book as a story of human desire and will to live.
Considering for Book Club.
I really liked the first part of the book, but then it got boring.
