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Summary: Life of Pi Summary
Review: Pi is made fun of in school for his real name Piscine Molitar Patel. His parents hate the new government that comes into power in India and decide to move to Canada. Pi's father is a zookeeper so he sells as many animals that he can and prepares to move the rest with them. On the trip the ship sinks and Pi is the only survivor on a life boat. He is stuck on the lifeboat with a hyena, tiger, zebra, and an orangutang. His chance for survival becomes slim yet he manages to pull through. I found the book to be surprisingly interesting and informative. It encourages faith and that theme is one that should be shared with everyone.
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Summary: Not too bad
Review: Life of Pi is very exciting. Yann Martel turns Pi into a great single-person character. The author puts a twist of creativity into a story that appears to be normal in the beginning. I recommend this novel to all teachers who are trying to find one for their class(es). This novel can be enjoyed by everybody all ages. It can also be enjoyed over and over only to realize that it gets better each time. This is a novel that cannot be passed up and I appreciate my teacher for making our english class read it.
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Summary: The True Meaning of Prusten
Review: Dear Reader, please permit me this brief comment. It is not often a character from a novel has the opportunity to address the general readership. The reason you should read this book is not because of its insights into the nature of animal behavior, the survival instinct, religion, storytelling and faith, but because it beautifully demonstrates our creaturely kinship. Shortly after the shipwreck, Pi notices I am snorting in a friendly way towards him, making "prusten" sounds. How could I harm the boy who saved my life? Further, I had no choice when we made landfall than to flee because the rules of our engagement immediately changed once the trial was over. Tigers have impeccable manners, and on that occasion discretion and a quick departure were in order. My gratitude to Pi (and Yann) is enormous. I am hoping, in my next incarnation, to be a Hindu zookeeper located far inland. But that will be another story . . . .
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Summary: Trully Inspiring
Review: I am student from a small private school in the middle of a small town. Our World Literature teacher assigned our the for reading. When I first started this book I thought it was going to be another school book, the boring type. Well as i go t more into the book it got better and better. I soon became in gulfed in this boy's life, more so then i thought i would. The book tells a trully inspiring story of a struggle between life and death. I recomend this book to all, no matter what age. I warn those weak in the stomach, that this may not be your kind of book. I hope you enjoy the book as much as i did.
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Summary: La Lu Student Review
Review: I had to read Life of Pi for my senior english class. I think that Life of Pi by Yann Martel is one of the most interesting books I have ever read. The begining is a little long but once Pi is on the life boat after the sinking of the Tsimtsum the action really picks up. You are presented wiht many different options about what is reality and what is hallucination. Pi's ordeal whether it was fiction or not is a crusade across the pacific ocean and a crusade inside himself. His depiration and his triumphs are what keeps the book moving.
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Summary: A different story
Review: I am a high school student and for our world literature class we were required to read the "Life of Pi". The novel by Yann Martel is different. It is a novel about religion, zoology and a boy named Pi, who survived seven month with a tiger on a lifeboat. Pi is different. He sees life different and practices in his young age three different religions. The novel teaches a different view on life in a colorful way. It is a story about survival and like this a story about everyone's life. Dealing with all of those very different topics, the novel still gives a clear picture, close to reality and the pictures come alive while reading the book. Not only the story is very different from every other book I have ever read, but also the end closes in an unusual way. The novel ends in a contradiction and leaves questions behind after closing the last page of the book. The questions are what make the novel leave an impression that stays. What first came to my mind after closing the book is, that it taught me things I maybe would have never learned without reading the book. And I am thankful for that. I recommend you to read the novel "Life of Pi" if you are open for something new, interesting and different.
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Summary: Good to the End
Review: As a Muslim I know my religion and a lot of Christianity too and I found the writer has gone to a great lenght to ensure the accuracy of the facts about Islam and Christianity.
It's hard actual to have some inter-faith talk like Pi encountered and I found it refreshing to read about what I as a Muslim perceive other religions and people from other faith perceive mine.
In Malaysia,faith and religion are very sensitive issue. We rarely talk about them openly thus preventing us from knowing and understanding each other. Life of Pi has deepened my belief and understanding
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Summary: My Review On Life Of Pi
Review: I had to read Life of Pi for my English class. I thought the book was kind of depressing and some parts of the book were way too detailed. The parts that were especially way too detailed were the killings of the animals, mentioning of urine one too many times, and Pi's telling of the story without the animals. I kind of liked the book before the sinking of the Tsimtsum occurred, but after the sinking it just got too depressing and disgusting.
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Summary: Very...Interesting
Review: Yann Martel is an excellent writer who writes Pi Patel so well that I feel as though I know him personally. The troubled times Pi goes through during his fight for survival is touching. I was rooting for him all the way until the end. Although I was a little upset by the ending, it just made me think of how Yann Martel is using his story as an allegory to our world today. There is a side that most people choose to see that although it is not a fairytale world it is nice and the end turns out to be ok. But there is the uglier, more true side that some people refuse to see. Although in Pi's first story it is not perfect or easy by any means, it is better and easier to deal with than what happens in the second side of the story.
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Summary: Definitely worth reading
Review: Well, given all the hype and talk about this book, I'd say it was...fine. I liked it well enough. It started a little slow, but then picked up. I really liked the bits about the animals in the zoos. If it had been 300 pages about zoo animals, I would have loved it. Considering the tone of the reviews and blurbs, I was afraid it was going to be too, well, dreamscapey, for lack of a better word, for my taste. There was, however, plenty of action and not many delirious dreaming sequences at all. I have no patience for those in any book. I think my favorite chapter in the whole book was one of the last italicized chapters, which I assumed were intended to portray an author's interview with Pi, presumably to get the story and write it down (it took me a long time to figure that out!). It was the one when he meets Pi's little daughter. The love between the two is apparent, which I took to mean that Pi wasn't damaged by his ordeal and was still a happy person, and the narrator says, "I knew this story would have a happy ending." That bit made me smile and warmed my heart. I have one comment about Pi's relationship with Richard Parker. I thought the author did well by writing that as realistically as possible. I kept waiting for Pi and RP to become good friends and snuggle buddies, but that's not real. And Pi's disappointment in Richard Parker's sudden departure upon landfall was quite insightful. He did a good job projecting what might actually happen, and what Pi would have expected and the feelings he would have had. I never would have thought of it, but after I read it, I thought to myself, 'He's absolutely right. The ending was really interesting. It made me a little sad because after reading Pi's second version of events, I began to doubt, just a tiny bit, what actually happened. But it was a clever idea by the author. And I DO believe!
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