Book Review: Life of Pi

I am actually really upset that I haven’t gotten to this books sooner. So I finally got to reading Yann Martel’s: Life of Pi thinking it was going to be a mediocre book but man was I wrong. I am hoping most people who read my blog have already read the book I will give you a quick summary of the plot. Oh and SPOILER WARNING for anyone who hasn’t read Life of Pi yet.

Life of Pi is about the story of Piscine Patel (Pi) and how he survives the sinking of a ship and being stranded out at sea with a Hyena, an Orangutan, a wounded Zebra, and Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.

Life of Pi is just such a cool story to me. It just shows one kids will to keep moving forward even though it looks like there is nothing to move forward towards. Yann Martel did an amazing job writing Life of Pi. Just how much character and life she gave Pi is so cool. Now I did personally have a few problems with the book, and they just may be my own weirdness but just go with me.

The two main problems I had with the book was the beginning and the end. See personally the beginning was really slow to me, and I felt like it should have and could have picked up a lot faster, and the beginning was still good I just wish that it could have picked up a little bit faster. Now the end is where I have my major problem.

See the ending just really confused me and didn’t make a lot of sense to me. I just didn’t get why Pi tells the original story and then changes it when he tells the men that are interviewing him so it’s humans instead of animals. My question was is that what actually happened, or did he just make it up so that the men would get off his back? (If anyone knows please leave a comment so I can understand the book better).

But besides those two things I loved the book. The detail that was put into explaining the scenery and the struggle that Pi had to deal with every single day was astonishing. Yann Martel again did an amazing job and I am still upset that I didn’t get to this book faster, because it is now one of my favorites.