Life of Pi : Student Edition

by Yann Martel | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0156030209 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingCordelia-annewing of Decatur, Georgia USA on 7/24/2005
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3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by wingCordelia-annewing from Decatur, Georgia USA on Sunday, July 24, 2005
So many copies of this book have left my hands, I can't count. I loved this 2001 winner of the Booker prize that much! And I've been pretty good about judging who will enjoy it. Religious people with a sense of humor seem to go wild for it. Those who don't enjoy religious or philosophical musings are less captivated. Pi Patel, the young adventurer of the book, explores Hinduism, Christianity, Judaisim and Islam in the beginning chapters. There are some very, very funny episodes here. Pi's later odyssey aboard a life boat with the man-eating tiger Richard Parker is a wondrous, compelling read. This fabulous fairy tale kept me on the edge of my seat throughout and it encouraged me to face my own tigers and the tigers all about me. Whatever we believe, each of us must meet one tiger or another everyday. *The Life of Pi* is a wonderful reminder that they can be endured.

Journal Entry 2 by wingCordelia-annewing at on Sunday, July 24, 2005

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For hotflash, I hope that you enjoy this book as much as I did and that this copy has a great, journaled life in bookcrossing.

Journal Entry 3 by LynnWrites from Tucson, Arizona USA on Monday, August 1, 2005
Found this wonderful book in my mailbox today! With it was an absolutely gorgeous ( and soulful looking) picture postcard of a tiger !! thanks so much!
Will journal my comments once I have read the book.

Journal Entry 4 by LynnWrites from Tucson, Arizona USA on Wednesday, January 18, 2006
This is an amazing book. It's a book that I have to read slowly, stopping to mull over the philosophical offerings presented throughout the novel. The Hindu perspective on Christianity stopped me dead in my tracks. I am still thinking about that one. The observations on the life of animals in zoos was a completely new perspective for me; one I found so fascinating I bought a new copy of this book for my nephew, who works at the Phoenix Zoo. Life of Pi gives me "food for thought" (to be horribly trite) - so much so that I bought myself a copy at a library book sale today. I had to have my own copy. I need a write-in-the-margins copy. I need a copy I can keep.

Now I must confess that I haven't finished this book as yet - another reason for not hogging this one and getting my own copy. I started reading it before Christmas, and life has been so hectic I haven't had the quiet reading time that I need to give this book the attention it deserves.

So, thank you so much Cordelia-Anne for sharing this copy with me. I will now make it available to someone else and will continue my reading in the copy I purchased today.

(the picture included is of a Bobcat who wandered into my friend's backyard, here in Tucson - he/she was part of a bobcat family, who soon made short work of the squirrels who were also hanging out in her yard !)

Journal Entry 5 by LynnWrites from Tucson, Arizona USA on Saturday, March 25, 2006
I am very pleased to be able to send his book off to fullfil one of the requests on Antof9's wishlist. Next stop, Colorado.
Enjoy!!!

picture from a web page about the arrival of two new Rhinos at Phoenix Zoo, where my nephew works - and yes - I DID buy him a copy of this book !

Journal Entry 6 by LynnWrites from Tucson, Arizona USA on Tuesday, April 4, 2006
Had to add an entry just to add this picture. My nephew sent it to me today. This is the tiger at the Phoenix Zoo; he was fed a quarter carcass this morning...after a lot of growling and posturing, he settled down to rip into it.

Journal Entry 7 by Antof9 from Lakewood, Colorado USA on Tuesday, April 4, 2006
Thank you SO much, hotflash! (and you, too, cordelia-anne, for sharing this book with the world) :) What a great RABCK!

I can't wait till my bookclub starts this one! We're in Catch-22 right now. I think (hope) this is next!

Thanks so much for offering me this book from my wishlist. I kind of put it on there as a whim, thinking I'd pick it up when it was time to read it, but this is much more special :)

update: I just saw hotflash's note about needing a "write in the margins" copy. hmmmmm I just recently started writing in the margins (actually, only one book), and it was in my bookclub book! I decided to try being like my friend S, who does, and see how I feel about it. I have to admit, I kind of like it :)

Journal Entry 8 by Antof9 from Lakewood, Colorado USA on Thursday, May 18, 2006
placeholder for real journal entry -- I'll probably finish this tonight (but won't have computer access), and release :)

edited 1/7/2007 -- I came across some of my notes from this book (although not all, as some of my "notes", are just conversations we had at book club), and thought I'd transcribe them here.

I made notes on page 7: ...but I love Canada. It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos. (HA!)

and on page 160 (spoiler alert): To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, sho is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures to people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trun supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you.

I loved this book, and will probably read it again in the next year. I remember one of the notable things in the book were that Pi always had food in his cupboards (noted by the interviewer), and the other, probably bigger deal, was that it wasn't until I was about halfway through the book that I realized the italics meant a different person was speaking. DUH!

Released 17 yrs ago (5/19/2006 UTC) at The Shops at Lincoln Harbor lobby bench in Weehawken, New Jersey USA

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Left (obviously) in a planter in front of Boogie Woogie Bagel Boys. I dropped it right in front of a man sitting on the bench next to it, and he didn't even notice!

It's pouring rain here and I'm ready to go home this afternoon to sunny Colorado :)

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