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#1 Photo Products - Life of Pi
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List Price: $25.00
Our Price: $3.99
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780151008117
ISBN: 0151008116
Label: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2002-06-04
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Studio: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Summary: A Story of stories
Comment: I cant think of a better story to recommend. Sometimes you do wonder if it is a novel. Pi is a great character, simple, physically weak, a non-hero, he could be any one of us. He goes through extraordinary experience out of pure luck. More extraordinary than this is the way it is described and perspective offered at every turn. It is simply beautiful. I cannot tell you more than this. As Pi says "My greatest wish--other than salvation--was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One that I could read again and again, with new eyes and fresh understanding each time." This can be that book.
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Summary: Incredible Literary Adventure
Comment: This is one of my favorite books. Yann Martel makes us realize how animalistic humans can be in the most enjoyable way possible.
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Summary: try it in audio form
Comment: I have listened to this novel 3 times. It is a wonderful story, that many people could take many ways. but to listen to it..... the readers voice is so perfect for the story, and it lets you use all of your imagination to picture what you hear. You may think it starts slow, but don't give up, you'll be learning. And it will all be worth it. This book is such a treat.
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Summary: Longer than necessary, slow, doesn't live up to hype
Comment: Honestly, this book is longer than necessary and moves WAY too slowly. Normally I can finish a book this length in a couple days. It took me weeks to drag myself through this book. It was by sheer will and determination that I even finished it. This book was recommended by a friend and Amazon based on other books I've read. It did NOT live up to the hype. There are so many books out there which are much better.
At no point did it ever make me want to believe in God. It's argument, God is the prettier story- or as other have put it, why not believe in God- it's a sort of hedging your bets strategy, is really not very compelling. I actually thought the "second" story was better and more compelling because it shows the truth of humanity.
I liked the contrast between the stories, and maybe that should have been developed more. And the beginning is completely confusing.
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Summary: Worst book EVER!
Comment: Save your bucks, people -- here's the theme: we should believe in God because...it's the prettier story. What the hell? Is this guy kidding? How incredibly naive!
Martel must be targeting an audience of children, because I can't see how a mature adult could take this nonsense seriously.
What a bunch of malarkey. What a waste of time. Hey Martel, you hack! Give me back my money!
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Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes.
The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional-but is it more true?
Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God.
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