Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

49 reviews

kendal_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Death, and Grief

kanjichris's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

schrödinger's cat

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Cannibalism, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Excrement, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Abandonment, Death, Grief, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, and Violence

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

The audiobook did not help me get past the religious overtones and graphic animal harm. When you are not bored and being preached at you are being slapped in the face with some cruelty towards animals. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, Animal death, Excrement, Blood, Death of parent, Death, Gore, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Religious bigotry

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

I tried so hard and yet I longed for the tiger to eat Pi's face so the misery would end. This book is wildly not for me. I cannot stand the animal violence and casual cruelty. I found the religious overtones frustrating. This is a book that was not meant for me and spent way too many years on my TBR.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Excrement, Gore, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Blood, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, and Cannibalism

Minor: Religious bigotry

lay_kone's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Death of parent, Violence, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Body horror, Cannibalism, Excrement, and Vomit

chelsisflwlss's review against another edition

adventurous reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

focuses on the significance of storytelling 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Blood

askurm0m's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

I really liked it. It kept me on the edge of my seat and I never wanted to put it down. Pretty slow in the beginning so you kind of have to bear with it but, it’s crucial background and character building. It is essential to the book. I really enjoyed it :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, and Death

Moderate: Body horror, Blood, Gore, and Murder

Minor: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, Confinement, Vomit, Child death, and Cannibalism

Less about the tiger, more about surviving at sea (valid).

blau_elmo's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

This entire book is an allegory to the question of religion: does God exist?

The author, or rather, Pi, presents how in the case where there's no evidence to prove two possible stories, is it not more hopeful and positive to belief in the one with less morbid and gruesome details, given that it does not change the way we experience existence in the first place?

In the case that we are not interested in pursuing the truth, or when the truth does not matter, yes, his view is valid and I agree. But in the case of discussing existence, I feel like knowing the nature of the universe is important for our understanding of physics and philosophy itself, to solve actual, worldly problems. It is not just a matter of the soul, because the soul is not mutually exclusive from human experience, and consequently the studies of philosophy, the physical sciences etc. Empirical data means a lot, and to present this narrative of potentially muddling the truth is rather contentious in my opinion.

Nevertheless, the adventure Pi goes on is riveting, chock full of metaphors, allegories and hidden meanings that can only be uncovered upon closer analysis, or a second read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and Death

lillypowell's review against another edition

challenging sad slow-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Death of parent, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, and Death

saeruh's review against another edition

challenging inspiring tense slow-paced

2.5

Read for my intro to literature class. There was some very beautiful bits of writing at times but the overall boredom and confusion I felt outweigh all of that for me personally. The animal death throughout made me feel really disgusting, which means it works quite well, but not sure why you would want to read all that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent and Cannibalism