Book Report – Life of Pi

I finally finished Life of Pi by Yann Martel last night. I am so thankful my bestie Leanne told me, “it’s quite slow at the beginning but just keep on reading, it will get better.” I completely agree. The beginning is confusing, and scattered and I wasn’t really sure where it was going. Although I thoroughly enjoyed everything Pi had to say about life in the zoo, it was really quite interesting.

For those that don’t know, or haven’t seen the movie yet Life of Pi is about an Indian boy whose family owns a zoo. They eventually decide to move to Canada, and his father sells as many of the animals as he can, which means they have to travel the ocean on a cargo ship full of wild animals. There is some sort of explosion and the ship goes down, Pi is the only human survivor that we know of. He was thrown onto a lifeboat as the ship went down. There are a number of animal survivors as well; a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan, and a Bengal Tiger who also ended up on the lifeboat. Seven months later is where the story ends.

It really was a great read. I couldn’t put it down at times, and it was really fun sharing what was happening with Kenol, as it was such a wild story in parts. I must say though there were sections that were quite sad. The author did a fantastic job of describing the struggles and loneliness Pi was experiencing and got me chocked up a few times.

All in all, not the best book I have ever read but still really good and well worth the read. I can’t wait to see the movie! Next on my book list is 44 Scotland Street by my favourite author Alexander McCall Smith.

Peace, love and tigers!

Rachel


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