A review by ravenbait
Life of Pi by Yann Martel

3.0

I know it won the Man Booker Prize. I know everyone--including Margaret Atwood--raved about it and Ang Lee turned it into a massive blockbuster. I found it a fun read, entertaining and lyrical, but it didn't rock my world. Partly the dense irrelevance of the initial text put me off kilter and so we had a rocky beginning, this book and I. Partly because I had a rather different idea of what the premise of the plot was, having suffered the Chinese Whispers consequences of trying to avoid finding out too much about it before I read it, but being unable to avoid finding out anything at all.

I enjoyed it, but I didn't put it down with a sense of regret and a burning desire to find more by the same author. I, like Richard Parker, was quite happy to bound away to the next adventure with nary a backward glance.