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Rent Life of Pi
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Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Penguin/Highbridge
Published: Jan 2003
Genre: Fiction - Action & Adventure
Retail Price: $36.95
Discs: 9
Synopsis
Pi, the precocious animal-loving son of an Indian zookeeper, loses his family in a shipwreck en route to North America--and is left alone in a lifeboat with a man-eating Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, with whom he manages (thanks to his zoo background) to strike up an ingenious truce. When they finally reach land and the tiger disappears, Pi finds that no one will believe his story--and so he creates an alternative tale, one that is false but sounds true. This whimsical fantasy was short-listed for Canada's Governor General's Literary Award and won the Booker Prize in 2002. Also a New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
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Reviews
there's me, trying to read the ny times bestsellers again... i guess this is about a boy who gets stuck floating in the middle of the ocean with a tiger, but i never got that far. it was SO BORING! if you like smart books, read it, but here you see the difference, the kite runner book was smart, but well written, this one is smart but written so that you have to work and prove it in order to have read it. ick.
This book is very slow and disjointed in the beginning. It is almost painful to get through and you do not really understand where it is going. However, once the story gets underway it is a pretty good read. What makes the book worthwhile is the end. I will not spoil it for you! However, to like the book, I feel like you definitely have to get there. Once you read the end, you can reflect on the book and see the themes the author wove into the story. Pretty good although I wouldn't say its amazing like Ive heard in the past.
in my opinion, this story doesn't begin until Pi and his family depart on their voyage. i struggled getting through the first 75 pages or so of this book - boring and disjointed it was like an entirely different book. once the story really begins, i couldn't put it down - disturbing, bizarre, funny and brilliant.
A big action packed story and just over 300 pages, but heavy philisophical and religious ponderings really have it dragging in spots. That plus the blow by blow descriptions of the slaughter of the animals cost the prize winning book a star or two in my rting
This story was so boring in the beginning that i thought I wasn't going to make it through. Once the boat sinks and Pi is on his own the real adventre begins. I was shocked I couldn't put it down . I loved the ending that suggested that Pi made up the story of the animals as symbolism for people who were actually on the boat with him. it's an enjoying read if you like books that make you think.