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Is this book actually good, or is it something that makes soccer moms say it changed their life ala The Alchemist?

>> No.3633096

read it anyway.

>> No.3633102

Something in between. Good up to the ending which is really shoddy work.

>> No.3633114

>>3633096
>>3633102
Alright I will give it a try

>> No.3633128

>>3633114
So many things to read and you go for A Life Of Pi. Cheap Philosophy.

>> No.3633167

>>3633128
Oh get lost.

Yes OP it's a decent read.

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3633180

I liked it.

>> No.3633188

>>3633102
This. Really cool story with a pretty cool idea. Then everything gets all surreal and pretentious.
"Which story is real?????"
Hint: its the one without magic

>> No.3633197

>>3633188

My complaint isn't the message it's portraying but the manner in which the twist is revealed. It ends on pages of exposition which just seems clunky and lazy.

>> No.3633206

The Life of Pi isn't bad, but it's not great either.

I was annoyed as fuck at the beginning, because Pi wouldn't shut up about religion, and I kept agreeing with everything his "evil" father was saying, but once the ship sunk all that faith crap came to a stop and I found it an enjoyable story of survival, until the twist. The twist is just stupid.

But this was over eight years ago when I read it. I saw the movie shortly after reading the book "In the Heart of the Sea" which is a true story about a shipwreck, and the authenticity of that story really made The Life of Pi seem contrived and childish by comparison.

>> No.3633212

>>3633206
did it cross your mind that maybe it wasn't supposed to be a gritty tale of survival?

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>>3633212
Yeah, The Life of Pi totally is not a story of survival. There's a chapter entirely dedicated to Pi cutting up a sea turtle for food, but that wasn't about survival, it was about something else. The majority of the book definitely isn't about Pi trying his hardest not to die.

>> No.3633362

This book and its blurb.
While it isn't shit, its definitely the exact opposite of what I look for in a novel.

>> No.3633425

dream sequences are for fags

>> No.3633425,1 [INTERNAL] 

I know you said dream sequences are for fags, but I think it could work. We all gotta dream, don't we; not just fags? Oh, by the way, I don't think they like being called fags anymore, I think, now a days, they prefer homos.