Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

114 reviews

ineedsomemoretea's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Death of parent

Minor: Cannibalism

andreadmw's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I think part 1 can sometimes feel like where is this going until it gets into the meat of the story. But it is all good background for where the story goes. Good context. This was a reread and I was once again taken by the prose, the imagery and descriptions. I think it’s a beautiful story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

ckstrenger's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

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

ez2amuz's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring sad slow-paced

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

3.5

Loved it until the last 20 minutes when it just shattered. It just became sad and real and gross and disturbing after being so exciting and mostly hopeful. I understand why it went through way it did but it was such a a crash after such a surprisingly (to me) great story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Cannibalism, Animal death, Death, and Death of parent

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

toffeebox's review against another edition

mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

The twist at the end made it worth the boring bits in the middle. Anthromorphosis done correctly.

The middle was a lull and felt repetitive - it really makes you feel lost out at sea. Whhile beautiful, the descriptions felt too lengthy at times. Although those encyclopedic definitions of animals served to develop the character's interest in zoology, were overused and did not serve to further the plot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Animal death, and Cannibalism