The story of a young man surviving for over 200 days on a life boat with a tiger is fantastic. How is this possible? What keeps someone going for that long in such a dire predicament?
Life of Pi is both a book of faith and fantasy, of strength and imagination, it's the story of life finding a way.
Pi loves god so much he doesn't want to pick one religion, he wants to embrace the best of three of them. He is a Hindu-Christian-Muslim. Maybe it is this faith that gets him through.
Yann Martel writes so vividly that you can see the vast ocean, taste the salt, feel the odd algae island beneath you feet, and hear the roar of Richard Parker. There are a few cringe worth moments that also speak to the talent of the author to paint a word picture.
At the start of the book I was feeling like this was such an impossible premise that there was no way to make it feel real but by the end, as the shipping company guys are interviewing Pi I was feeling angry at them for not believing him.
(finished July 22, 2013)
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