reading (Life of Pi)
Apr. 7th, 2007 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eorI finished "Life of Pi" this morning. I read most of it in two days after getting bogged down around page 50 for the best part of a week.
The author seemed intent on exterminating all traces of suspense from his novel. On major and minor points you're told enough up front so you don't have to wonder how it's going to turn out. None of Schrodinger's felines were harmed in the writing of this novel. I found it majorly irritating.
I enjoyed the story once we got onto the actually story and stopped lolling about in India. Don't get me wrong, I would love to loll about in India, I just didn't enjoy the way author forced me to do it. It was like reading a young adult novel or watching an after school special. There was more happening once we were stranded on a lifeboat in the middle of pacific with nothing to look at.
The book is billed as a religious novel, but symbolism is slippery stuff when applied with a trowel. You could easily say that India is the zebra, America the hyena, Britain the orangutan, and China the tiger in political/social symbolism.
24. Yann Martel "Life of Pi"
The author seemed intent on exterminating all traces of suspense from his novel. On major and minor points you're told enough up front so you don't have to wonder how it's going to turn out. None of Schrodinger's felines were harmed in the writing of this novel. I found it majorly irritating.
I enjoyed the story once we got onto the actually story and stopped lolling about in India. Don't get me wrong, I would love to loll about in India, I just didn't enjoy the way author forced me to do it. It was like reading a young adult novel or watching an after school special. There was more happening once we were stranded on a lifeboat in the middle of pacific with nothing to look at.
The book is billed as a religious novel, but symbolism is slippery stuff when applied with a trowel. You could easily say that India is the zebra, America the hyena, Britain the orangutan, and China the tiger in political/social symbolism.
24. Yann Martel "Life of Pi"
