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Old 04-11-2011, 08:12 AM   #1079
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Re: What book are you currently reading?
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Originally Posted by LonelyNinja View Post
Well, I didn't love the book, but I did find it very entertaining. The plot was easy to follow without being childish, it was fairly amusing throughout, and the take on religion was refreshingly different from what I've read.
I had a very similar opinion. I say many are divided between love and hate because, being a Canadian book, it was trumpeted to the highest hall and many were driven to read it based on that. I think the book was a lot different that most people were expecting and weren't able to get into it or missed the point and ended up hating it.

For me, being somewhere in the middle in terms of enjoying it, I took the story of the tiger as a fabrication made unconsciously by Pi's brain to help him deal with the stress and violence that he endured; a convention that allowed him to internalize everything he was seeing without experiencing a mental break. So he believes it and to him it is true but the real truth (probably told to him from what others think happened) is something different and unprovable. Still a bit cryptic and vague in the end, but that's where I stood.
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