Life of Pi

Had to read it finally since they study it at school and the movie coming out. Great! I was getting pretty bored at the 2/3 mark, but the ending sequences are brilliant. Also, Yan Martel really knows what he is doing; some of the passages are very very good writing. Even though I was getting bored of the general story, I never tired of his skill when describing an exciting situation between Pi and Richard Parker. As D. Boulding mentioned, its all about story telling. It is funny how there is so much written about what 'really' happened. Jamie said he thought Pi landed in Mexico and lived happily ever after until he was discussing the book with friends, and he realized they had a very different view of the story. After re-reading it he changed his idea. Many people talk of metaphor and what not, but I was never convinced that it was not all a dream after the boat sunk. The ending involves story telling, oral history, how one person's reality is different from others, that the facts are still the facts regardless of 'science' and bias is always evident.