Reviews tagging 'Cannibalism'

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

84 reviews

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).

kathrun006's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

This book is an allegory for trauma and spirituality. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Medical content, and Excrement

Minor: Vomit and Suicidal thoughts

This book deals with the extreme situation of being lost at sea for several months and everything that goes along with it. For the majority of the book, the main character is sevearly dehydrated. This is a book about trauma and survival and spirituality/religion.

rafacolog's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

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

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

jeremie's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

stacy_85's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

lukel's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Abandonment, Cannibalism, and Violence

Moderate: Excrement

mapleleaf_rag's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Animal death, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Murder

millyfox's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Vomit, Blood, Excrement, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Death of parent

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Cannibalism, Self harm, Alcoholism, Death, Murder, and Child death