You can get the Life of Pi ebook today for .99. This book can be downloaded to your Kindle, computer, smart phone or iPad.
I read this book several years ago and if I remember it was on the best seller’s list and won all sorts of awards.
Here is the description of this book- if you are interested it is only available at this price today.
Yann Martel’s imaginative and unforgettable Life of Pi is a magical reading experience, an endless blue expanse of storytelling about adventure, survival, and ultimately, faith. The precocious son of a zookeeper, 16-year-old Pi Patel is raised in Pondicherry, India, where he tries on various faiths for size, attracting “religions the way a dog attracts fleas.” Planning a move to Canada, his father packs up the family and their menagerie and they hitch a ride on an enormous freighter. After a harrowing shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26-foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker (“His head was the size and color of the lifebuoy, with teeth”). It sounds like a colorful setup, but these wild beasts don’t burst into song as if co-starring in an anthropomorphized Disney feature. After much gore and infighting, Pi and Richard Parker remain the boat’s sole passengers, drifting for 227 days through shark-infested waters while fighting hunger, the elements, and an overactive imagination. In rich, hallucinatory passages, Pi recounts the harrowing journey as the days blur together, elegantly cataloging the endless passage of time and his struggles to survive: “It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I’ve made none the champion.”
I wouldn’t waste your money, I have read the first third and put it down because i couldn’t keep reading. Let me know if it is a good ending.
Lol- this book won tons of awards and was a bestseller. If I remember it was a little long so I can see why some might not finish it. I certainly wouldn’t say .99 was a waste of money though ;).
I saved it and just started- your description of it sounded good Charlene so hopefully I’ll actually read it….but anyhow, espec when books are long I think I have a better shot at reading them in paperback, something about holding my laptop that long!