Nick+T.’s+Book+Review

Do you love stories full of adventure, suspense, and a dash of comedy? If you do, Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, is a story that combines all three of these things with some philosophy and insight on religion. This book truly makes you rethink what you thought was always right. Life of Pi teaches you to be open-minded about everything, especially religion. I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did!

I really liked reading this book because you can closely relate to the main character, Pi, because he wonders the same thing that teenagers wonder all the time. This book truly does test your own imagination because of all the incredible events that happen while he is on a lifeboat, with a tiger, a zebra, an orangutan, and a hyena. As life progresses in the lifeboat, the tiger, Richard Parker, stays under the tarp part of the book, leaving the other animals exposed. The hyena consistently and frantically howls and runs the perimeter of the book, terrifying everyone on the boat, until this finally becomes normal for everyone. Sadly, the zebra eventually is taken by the hyena, along with the orangutan, Orange Juice. One of my favorite parts in the entire book is when he visits the strange island in the middle of the ocean, which is inhabited with oddly enough, meerkats. I would highly recommend this book to someone who has a vivid imagination and really does enjoy to read. This book really does grasp you right in the beginning, with three toed sloths, and ends the book with a great ending.

As this book comes to a close, the story is very fulfilling when the book is over. A lot of book nowadays don't have the best ending, but not Life of Pi. The ending is closed perfectly in my opinion. It does leave you wanting more out of the book because it closes all gaps leaving you nothing to ponder except what Pi has wondered to himself throughout the book. This is probably one of the best books I have ever read, again, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.