'One Boy, One Boat, One Tiger'
This book is an excellent written adventure novel, full of detail leaving a vivid image in your mind. The book is split into three different parts. The first is about Piscine Patel's 'Pi's' life growing up and about his religious journey of being a practicing Hindu, Christian and Muslim. As well as this it explains Pi's family life of living with his dad, a business man and zoo owner, who likes to think himself as a business man from New India, who doesn't have time for religion.
The second part is when Pi and his family immigrates to Canada, taking along with them most of the animals from the zoo so that they can sell them to zoos in America. However the ship they travel on to Canada sinks and Pi is left on a life boat with a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger. The first three animals dies one by one leaving Pi with the Bengal Tiger, named Richard Parker. In order to survive, Pi is tested day by day by facing various challenges, completing tasks you could never imagine another human being completing.
The third is an interview between Pi and a couple of Japanese officials who questions Pi about the shipwreck and how he survive. Pi then tells the gruesome story of how he and Richard Parker survives. Of course the officials are not impressed as they feel the story is implausible so Pi tells a slightly different story changing the animals to human beings with similar qualities.
Over all I didn't really enjoy this book. As I stated earlier on it is well written and full of detail but I personally feel that it takes a while to get to the point, especially the first part which seems to drag the most. I also felt really disappointed reading this as I watched the film first and the film was a lot different. To be honest I wish I read the book first as then it probably wouldn't have seemed to drag as much. With all this in mind I will rate this book three stars as it is okay and brilliantly written but at the same time I feel slightly let down.
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