'In my experience, a castaway's worst mistake is to hope too much and do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away. There was much I had to do.'
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan, a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger and Pi - a 16 year-old Indian boy.
Yann Martel's Life of Pi is a transformative novel, a dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound readers in equal measure. It is a timeless, thought-provoking novel that won the Man Booker Prize and became an international phenomenon.
Life of Pi was a really good story wrapped in chapters of tedious extras. The first section was interesting and I learned a few things about religion and zoology but I felt that it was a little boring and made the book hard to get into. Once I got to the middle of the book where Pi is now a castaway, trying to survive life on a small boat with a Tiger. After the religious heavy beginning, I was a bit surprised there weren't more tie ins back to that in the middle. The end brought back the spiritual feel but not in the way I had anticipated. Overall, a decent book.
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