Life of Pi

So enchanted with fantasy and beautiful mythologies that it loathes anyone with an ability to accept reality, to face hardship, to tackle life's challenges with grit and rationality.

This is an extremely violent book. My son read it at school and was scarred for months. Some parts of it are positive, but the gory details make this not a good book for children.

Read this book with my son as he was assigned it in class. He's 12. Although it's an amazing book to which I give 5 stars on goodreads, the shockingly awful violence and realities (weird word choice, I know) and very mature take on religion make me very sad to know that my son was obligated to read this. Too soon by my lights.

Hi,as you may know i am Hashna28.I don't know about you but I just love reading fictional novels that include adventure!This book had it all.Yann Martel is an amazing author,as I have read other books by him (e.g. Beatrice and Virgil).So in conclusion I recommend you this book to read!

The book starts out promisingly enough by setting up the conflict between the worlds major religions: why does each religion think it alone is the best way and all others are wrong? 16-year-old Pi is confused by this and takes the easy way out and decides he is all three: Hindu, Christian and Muslim. When he is cast adrift in the Pacific Ocean with a lame zebra, Orangutan, Hyena and Tiger for company, his ardent vegetarianism comes face to face with the worlds most fearsome predator - the Bengal Tiger. His story of survival is sometimes funny, sometimes pathetic, but mostly gory - and I mean explicitly gory. By a clever set of circumstances, Pi is left to carry his unbelievable tale with no evidence to back it up whatsoever to the folks who rescue him. The book does a good job of setting up the real question: why do we believe what we believe? This would be a terrific book for a mature teenager (especially one who is not squeamish about cutting up critters in AP Biology ) to explore. But the descriptions are so graphic, it would completely obscure the backstory - which in this case is the *real* story - for younger readers.