Most strongly and heartily NOT RECOMMENDED.
LIFE OF PI ZOO ZEBRA DRAWING FULL
Public notice: My spiritual debt to the opinions of others is, with the reading of this ghastly book, herewith Paid In Full For Good. But, in all fairness, people I love and respect lived it, so it's a mitzvah to read it, right? If I were Canadian or Torontoid (or whatever they call themselves), I'd be livid with fury over this crapulous insult to my homeland.īut hey, I'm Texan and Murrikin, if they don't care enough to run this yahoo outta town, why should I? The yodeling of joyous awakening that fogged this book on its debut."a story to make you believe in the soul-sustaining power of fiction" ugh! "could renew your faith in the ability of novelists to invest even the most outrageous scenario with plausible life" oh really? "a fabulous romp through an imagination by turns ecstatic, cunning, despairing and resilient" *retch*.made my "oh yeah?" follicle erect its sturdy little hair, so I avoided it. Piscine Molitor (Pi) Patel does not wring my heartstrings on his spiritual quest across the vasty deep, accompanied by a tiger named Richard Parker, to a carnivorous island, thence to Mexico to answer to a pair of noxious Japanese stereotypes and, ultimately, to Canada.sort of an anodyne for all the adventure he's been through, the way the author presents it. They emerged and flew about in the way of flies, in great, lazy orbits except when they came close to each other, when they spiralled together with dizzying speed and a burst of buzzing." (p118, paper ed.) Good, good stuff, nicely observed and handsomely rendered, and not enough to lift this dreary pseudo-philosophical rehash of Jonathan Livingston Seagull into greatness. Show More can write lovely sentences: "Those first hours were associated in my memory with one sound, not one you'd guess, not the yipping of the hyena or the hissing of the sea: it was the buzzing of flies.
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