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by proxam  - Top 500, Jun 23 '04
Pros: An amazing story
Cons: Starts a little slow
When I came across The Life of Pi by Yann Martell in the resident's lounge of an hotel in Spain, something stirred and I immediately grabbed it with both hands, furtively slinking off with it. Naturally, I left the book I'd just finished ...
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by goldmoon , Sep 07 '03
Pros: Very unique and thought-provoking.
Cons: A little difficult to get into.
You would think that, since I'm challenging myself to read and review as many books as possible in one month, I would choose easy reads. Well, I don't seem to be doing that. The first book, Dancing in my Nuddy-Pants was certainly a quick and easy ...
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by mike.holmes  in Books, - Top 500, Jul 02 '04
Pros: Poetic prose concerning an unbelievable believable tale
Cons: Not one
I had heard about this book months before I bought it. I bought the book months before I read it. I buy and read several books (sometimes 2 or 3 at the same time, well, not literally at the same time, but you know what I mean). "The Life of Pi" ...
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by t13monkeys - Top 500, Aug 06 '05
Pros: excellent prose, one of the original works ive read in a while
Cons: none
It's rare to come by books that seem to break the most conventional modes of storytelling. Life of Pi does that for me; it does not seem to fit into any genre, but is clearly a story, in the sense that it is not so radically written that it is the mere ...
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by Fargust , Mar 30 '04
Pros: Well written, character of Pi well developed, much to think about after reading
Cons: The cover
I saw Life of Pi sitting in the bookstore for a long time before I finally got to it. I had heard nothing but good things about it, but I guess I thought it was safer to stick with the stuff by authors I knew, often stuff that I had already read. This ...
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by martytdx - Top 200, Sep 17 '04
Pros: One of the best examples of story-telling I've seen in a while.
Cons: None.
This is a novel of such rare and wondrous storytelling that it may, as one character claims, make you believe in God. Can a reader reasonably ask for anything more? - from the dust jacket I'm not a religious man, so after seeing that ...
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by naphtalia - Top 100, Dec 19 '02
Pros: strange and wonderful once you get involved in it.
Cons: a bit hard to get into.
Yann Martel won the Booker Prize for Life of Pi. This alone was enough to make me pick the book up. It proved to be both imaginative and unforgettable. This is a book that will stay with me for a long time to come, and all for good reasons. The...
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by joshg2fl , Jun 19 '06
Pros: Great storytelling...
Cons: Slow start...
“Interpretation is not the art of construing but the art of construction. Interpreters do not decode poems, they make them.” – Stanley Fish (Is There a Text in This Class?) “The circus lions don’t care to know that their leader is a weakling ...
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by suvit_singh , Jul 09 '07
Pros: - Riveting storyline
- Full of unorthodox wisdom and truisms
- Great characterization
Cons: - Unstable rhetoric style
- Story drags in the middle somewhat
"This book was born when I was hungry." And so the yarn is spun, reflecting one of the most fundamental tenets of the human condition; that necessity is the mother of invention. Extreme tragedies and losses often provide the requisite platform for the ...
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by ice_smk , Jan 11 '04
Pros: Amazing! So much better than his first novel, it blows your mind.
Cons: A little boring at times and some discoveries in the novel hard to believe.
Yann Martel, an award-winning Canadian short story author, released his first novel "Self" to great anticipation. His novel was not only dismissed by critics but also ignored by readers (so much so that it is now out of print). As a result, expectations ...
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by zmongoose , May 09 '04
Pros: Funny, charming characters. Yet also serious issues. Reader's opinion is very important to story.
Cons: some sticklers for reality won't be able to get immersed in the story
319 pages, Harvest/Harcourt Inc., 2001 With reading group guide version available (questions in the back of the book). It is difficult to overstate the broad appeal of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. Witty, profoundly moving, achingly innocent, and at ...
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by baldandsexy , Jan 07 '03
Pros: Engaging. Witty. Powerful imagery. An honest-to-God STORY.
Cons: None
ATTENTION: Some spoilers below!!!
A sense of disquiet moves me to write this opinion/analysis/criticism. I defy any person to read Life of Pi and not gain this wordless feeling of unease. Oh, it’s a good feeling of unease - don’t get...
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by smadakcin , Feb 23 '05
Pros: A great story, endless interpretive possibilities.
Cons: Slow to get going.
Writing about religion can be a tricky business. If you're too controversial, you're pretty much guaranteed to upset an awful lot of people (although it never did Dan Brown any harm). Go too far the other way, and it can all seem a bit dogmatic, ...
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by dhandforth , Jul 04 '03
Pros: Magical, mystical, imaginative, and fantastical, blended beautifully.
Cons: Hard to get into, and hard to get through.
Multiple reviews have called this book accessible, imaginative, a high work of fantasy, and an award ...
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by abhaille , Aug 01 '04
Pros: GREAT Story, epic adventure.
Cons: Tragic in many ways.
My friend the librarian was reading this last year during one of our weekend long competitions. We spend a lot of time waiting on the kids between events. I can't scrape myself off of the wall long enough to concentrate on reading, but she dutifully ...
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