ShareOk gang. It’s time for a poll:
I had heard a lot about this book, but never worked out exactly what it was about. You see, Life of Pi is one of those books that people get really excited about, but never actually read. It’s a little sad because it is quite the little gem of a book and a lot of people are missing out by just talking about reading it. Sure, the plot line is outlandish, but the characters are vivid and believable – which is vitally important to the story.
With that excellent little segway out of the way, I must ruin a bit of the fun by noting that, possibly, while the book is excellent and characters believable, readers should consider second guessing little Pi’s narrative. I know; I, too, would normally believe a sixteen-year-old boy that he had survived living on a lifeboat with a hyena, a zebra and a bengal tiger called Richard Parker, but Life of Pi has displayed something extraordinary before us: it makes us doubt our reasoning.
The interesting thing was that, while reading Life of Pi, the question of whether to believe little Pi or not was irrelevant – one does not even consider that the upstanding and multifaith Pi would lie. One simply presumes that his outlandish tale is the truth.
But whatever your brain decided to run with, there is one thing that I have to say: read Life of Pi. It is an excellent read, it is challenging, it stirs your emotions to the core, it is simply wonderful. Do it, you won’t regret it.
