From the back cover: After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy name Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan...and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger.
This is my second read of The Life of Pi, the first being a good 8 or 9 years ago. I remember like it very much - enough to recommend it to my (now) husband, but didn't really remember much more about it than boy & tiger on boat. This doesn't really say anything about the book - I just have a shocking memory with books & movies (hence the blog to help me remember).
This time around I really enjoyed it and completed it in two days. I know it's a good book if it keeps me off my computer for any length of time. Being an animal lover, I loved reading the stories of all the animals, and Pi's dabbling in different relegions was interesting as well. I know nothing of Islam or Hindu so looking at them from the eyes of someone who is just discovering them is a comfortable way to read about them. And, having grown up in a Christian society it is refreshing to see how ridiculous Christianity is again, from the prespective of one just discovering it.
Sadly I am one of the people that believe Pi's second story - the one he gives to the Japanese officials, rather than the more beautiful and elaborate story.
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