Life Of Pi

I saw the trailer for the movie and immediately wanted to see it. I found this book on the Play Store and decided to read it, now I'm sure I'll not bother watching the movie. The book is made up of three distinct parts. The first is the introduction of the main character and a biography of his early life. There are some interesting sections in here with regards to animals, but the overbearing push of religion is enough to leave a sour taste. There are whole chapters talking nonsense about religion which can be safely skipped (22-28 if I recall correctly). The second section is a long and fanciful tale about the main character being lost in the Pacific on a lifeboat with a Tiger. The story progressively degrades from entertainingly quirky, to bad-acid-trip ridiculousness. All the while there are decidedly blunt, clumsy attempts to make the story spiritually significant. The final section is a short, almost epilogue style conclusion. He has survived, his story has been told, and the message that is pushed is that there is no such thing as truth, and as such, we should believe in whatever absurd trollop we want - and shoehorn this into the form of a religious epiphany.

It just carries on and on and on. At some point, I just skipped whole chapters because it just would stop. You can comfortably skip the first 100 pages until the ship sinks. The middle is great, and then by page 300, I would just go straight to the last 40 pages. It took me months to complete because it was just so tedious. If you're a story driven reader, definitely not for.

Most boring book ever. I gave it a good chance. I read every single drawn out word. But if I have to go through hundreds of pages before the book starts to get interesting, then I would have to say, the book's failed.