Life of Pi

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Score	Title	Author	Genre
8.7	Life of Pi	Yann Martel	LitFi

Technophilia	9
Secularity	9
Personal Tilt	8

Indian zookeepers' kid is shipwrecked on their way to Canada. Survival ensues. A tiger is involved.

This is a hard book to review, in part because I am still WTFing about the meerkat island episode. I think it was a meaningless red herring bit, but I could be wrong.

In some ways, this is ultimately a pro-atheism book. Pi's approach to reality from the start is -- as he himself puts it -- that "the details seem... bleak". The ending, in many ways, is synonymous with religion being his opium.

Fanciful imagination is the lens Pi views the world with. Religion and zoology provide the glass for the making of the lens.

In others, it's an affirming lauding of religion. Pi practices Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam with joy and fervour seldom matched. Their myths give his tongue powerful metaphors. Devotion drives his life and occupies his leisure.

Meh. It's a great book. Like all Literary Fiction, it's basically bubble gum^-^, but it's fun bubble gum. Read it.;)