Life of Pi, is a story about a teenage boy named Pi, who was in a shipwreck and spends 227 days aboard a life boat and survives to tell his tale. What actually happens during those days in the Pacific is left up to the reader to decide. Pi tells two versions of his story, and its my guess that the truth is somewhere in between. The point of the story is to ask the reader which version do they personally want to "believe" and hence is a reflection on how they view religion and the world. I found the novel to be ploddingly slow and I was left feeling frustrated and saddened by Pi's suffering and detachment through his survival ordeal. If anything, instead of feeling like this book proved "the existence of God" I felt as the movie reviewer, Jonathan Kim, stated in the Huffington Post "[the book] would confirm that if there is a God in control, he's a cruel, sadistic jerk."
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