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Just finished Life of Pi :(

>> No.2869187

Thinking of reading it before the film comes out, was it a good book in it own right?

>> No.2869192

>>2869187

Not OP, but it just struck me as useless. A good story, but nothing learned, no insight into the human experience, just a story about a boy that isn't a "Growing Up" tale.

Entertaining, nothing more.

>> No.2869197

>>2869192
Is the relationship between the boy and the tiger interesting at least?

>> No.2869201
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2869201

>mfw reading this

i don't appreciate being told at the end that it was all a pointless vision, even if the prose is good and i did enjoy the story up until that point.

>> No.2869205

>>2869201 - same poster
Also, one of my favorite parts was the aborted historical novel that the writer in the story says that he had dilignetly researched. I wanted to read *that* book, it sounded really good.

>> No.2869220

>>2869201

You missed the point. Read it again.

>> No.2869234

>>2869220

Was his hallucination just an extended metaphor for religion?

>> No.2869236

i only read the first few pages and instantly knew it was shit. it's artificial as fuck, the author is up his own ass, the writing is shitty and comparable to twilight, and there's too much religious projection. no wonder it was rejected for publication MULTIPLE times before it was finally published out of pity

>> No.2869237

Anyone else concerend about how the movie is going to turn out?

From the teaser it looked like it would be a PG rated movie for the family, which I don't see would work, because of the intense survival stuff, as well as the second story, which was pretty gruesome

>> No.2869262

>>2869234

Kind of.

>> No.2869267

>>2869236

You sure do have an opinion.

Yessir.

>> No.2869272

I tried to read that book. It was so fucking pointless I couldn't stand it.

>> No.2869281

Storytelling is also a means of survival. The “true” events of Pi’s sea voyage are too horrible to contemplate directly: any young boy would go insane if faced with the kinds of acts Pi (indirectly) tells his integrators he has witnessed.

By recasting his account as an incredible tale about humanlike animals, Pi doesn’t have to face the true cruelty human beings are actually capable of. Similarly, by creating the character of Richard Parker, Pi can disavow the ferocious, violent side of his personality that allowed him to survive on the ocean.

Even this is not, technically, a lie in Pi’s eyes. He believes that the tiger-like aspect of his nature and the civilized, human aspect stand in tense opposition and occasional partnership with one another, just as the boy Pi and the tiger Richard Parker are both enemies and allies.