Life of Pi BOOKRAY
Registered by loopy1 of Herne Bay, Kent United Kingdom on 5/12/2003
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
18 journalers for this copy...
My copy of this book finally turned up this morning, and it will set out on its travels as soon as I've finished reading it.
This is the post order: (current/latest reader in bold)
1. Bookhogger (Canada)
2. Beatrice-s (canada)
3. missJAS (Canada)
4. seferim (US)
5. JKate (US)
6. gategrl (US)
7. JPandJo(US)
8. DrBrown (US)
9. solimano (florence)
10. pikapolonica (sweden)
11. lelley (UK)Being skipped
12. Arina (Portugal)
13. AngelKitty(US)
14. Symphonicca (Canada)
15. zibeline (Portugal)
16. fio-dagua (Portugal)
17. beladormecidaa Portugal
18. letra Portugal
19. Shelbycat Wales
20. digitaltempest Alabama
21. cat-w UK
22. Spaceystacey New Jersey, US
23. JesseBC Illinois, US
lakelady2282 Australia
jakaluma Australia
arakune Canada
pyan US
Anyone else who's interested please PM and I'll add your name at the bottom. You need to be prepared to post anywhere!.
This is the post order: (current/latest reader in bold)
1. Bookhogger (Canada)
2. Beatrice-s (canada)
3. missJAS (Canada)
4. seferim (US)
5. JKate (US)
6. gategrl (US)
7. JPandJo(US)
8. DrBrown (US)
9. solimano (florence)
10. pikapolonica (sweden)
11. lelley (UK)Being skipped
12. Arina (Portugal)
13. AngelKitty(US)
14. Symphonicca (Canada)
15. zibeline (Portugal)
16. fio-dagua (Portugal)
17. beladormecidaa Portugal
18. letra Portugal
19. Shelbycat Wales
20. digitaltempest Alabama
21. cat-w UK
22. Spaceystacey New Jersey, US
23. JesseBC Illinois, US
lakelady2282 Australia
jakaluma Australia
arakune Canada
pyan US
Anyone else who's interested please PM and I'll add your name at the bottom. You need to be prepared to post anywhere!.
Well I finished this book!
It was strange - it wasn't the sort of book I'd normally read, but as it's no. 1 on the wishlists, I thought I'd try it.
I did enjoy it, the writer has a nice style, but I have a funny feeling it's the sort of book that grows on you. While I finished it and thought "that's okay, but what was the fuss about?" I now find myself, a day or two later, thinking of it at odd times, and I feel it might well be a book that stays with me. I know the ideas about zoos will!
This book is now heading out to bookhogger in Canada. Happy travelling!
It was strange - it wasn't the sort of book I'd normally read, but as it's no. 1 on the wishlists, I thought I'd try it.
I did enjoy it, the writer has a nice style, but I have a funny feeling it's the sort of book that grows on you. While I finished it and thought "that's okay, but what was the fuss about?" I now find myself, a day or two later, thinking of it at odd times, and I feel it might well be a book that stays with me. I know the ideas about zoos will!
This book is now heading out to bookhogger in Canada. Happy travelling!
Just recieved this all the way from England. Many thanks. Will set aside my other books and get this one read and sent off to the next person.
I have finished it and sent it off a while ago.
I loved reading most of this book - made me smile a lot. The ending kind of bothered me - I though there would be more. Still, i recommend it - great ideas about religion
I have finished it and sent it off a while ago.
I loved reading most of this book - made me smile a lot. The ending kind of bothered me - I though there would be more. Still, i recommend it - great ideas about religion
Just came in the mail today to hopefully alleviate my Harry-Potter-anticipation-withdrawl syndrome :) Have been meaning to read this book for a scandelously long time.
I absolutely loved this book! I enjoyed the writing style, appreciated the objectivity of the religious discussion, was very taken in by the story, and thought that the characters - both human and animal - were extremely well formed. The amount of thought and detail that went into the story is striking. Particularly loved the bits about the main character's name (piscine being the French word for "swimming pool") and the relationship between Pi and the tiger, which was both unusual and emotional without seeming contrived. Sent to missJAS in Washington.
Took me by suprise and will not soon be forgotten! Fascinating and thought provoking in a variety of ways; cultural, spiritual, and the detailed observances of animal/human behavior.
Off to Seferim 7/23/03!
Off to Seferim 7/23/03!
I really enjoyed this book and was disappointed to see such an abrupt ending... but not so much so that I cannot give the overall story 9 stars. My favorite sections of the book were when Pi lived in India and described his life and his fascination with religion. I so much enjoyed the descriptions of the three religions that Pi practiced: Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. I loved how Pi did not see the three as mutually exclusive. There was the deeper allegorical side going on throughout the whole tale that touched on so many religious points.
The "meat" of the story comes when Pi is shipwrecked and lives for 227 days on a 26-foot life boat with an adult Bengal tiger, named Richard Parker. At first he deathly afraid of the carnivore, and begins to plot how he can kill the tiger. I was so happy to see Pi accept Richard Parker's existence, and realize that he needed him there in order to keep himself alive.
Like I mentioned above, the end wrapped up quickly, I could have seen the story go quite a but further. Yet, I loved the overall tale...It read very quickly and was much like a wonderful fable mixed in with elements of "Worst Case Scenario".
If you are interested in hearing a discussion about the book There is a nice download (it is nearly an hour long, so it takes awhile to download, but it is a great discussion between a theologian, a zoologist, and a writer. Check out the June 18th, 2003 Diane Rehm show
**Mailing to JKate on 13 August**
Thank you! I will start this one soon!
One of the best, original novels in years, telling the story of a boy who survives a terrible accident and forms a bond with a tiger. I know, I know, it's odd writing it, but on paper, it makes sense.
Off to another BC'er...
Off to another BC'er...
Journal Entry 10 by jkate at Pleasant Hill Post Office on Contra Costa Blvd. in Pleasant Hill, California USA on Friday, September 12, 2003
Released on Friday, September 12, 2003 at Pleasant Hill Post Office on Contra Costa Blvd. in Pleasant Hill, California USA.
Off to the next person at the ring!
Off to the next person at the ring!
Received this today and only hope I can get it read in a timely fashion. Which would be 1 month or less, right?
Thanks,
Andrea
Thanks,
Andrea
I really liked this book. It didn't end up where I thought it would and that was a pleasant surprise.
Chapter 17
In Pi's searching, I want to say for truth, but I think he was really looking for love, he says of Jesus, "This son, on the other hand, who goes hungry, who suffers from thirst, who gets tired, who is sad, who is anxious, who is heckled and harassed, who has to put up with followers who don't get it and opponents who don't respect Him-what kind of a God is that? It's a god on a human a scale, that's what."
Chapter 23 was most enjoyable.
Pi's parents learn the he is a practicing Hindu, Christian and Muslim. The "three wise men" from each religion gather with Pi and his parents, and Pi is told that he can't be all three. It's impossible. He must choose. His response? "All religions are true. I just want to love God."
In my own search for spiritual answers, I have come to the conclusion that we are a reasoning people without a reason. And in
Chapter 37,
Pi asks, "Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer?
I couldn't have said it better.
Thanks Loopy1
Chapter 17
In Pi's searching, I want to say for truth, but I think he was really looking for love, he says of Jesus, "This son, on the other hand, who goes hungry, who suffers from thirst, who gets tired, who is sad, who is anxious, who is heckled and harassed, who has to put up with followers who don't get it and opponents who don't respect Him-what kind of a God is that? It's a god on a human a scale, that's what."
Chapter 23 was most enjoyable.
Pi's parents learn the he is a practicing Hindu, Christian and Muslim. The "three wise men" from each religion gather with Pi and his parents, and Pi is told that he can't be all three. It's impossible. He must choose. His response? "All religions are true. I just want to love God."
In my own search for spiritual answers, I have come to the conclusion that we are a reasoning people without a reason. And in
Chapter 37,
Pi asks, "Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer?
I couldn't have said it better.
Thanks Loopy1
JPandJo and DrBrown (as per loopy1's list) both refused and said to go to next person on the list. Shipped this out to solimano, in Florence, Italy, 10-30-03. Go little book. Go on my dream trip. Sigh
Pi Patel & Richard Parker have arrived in Florence!
It's a wonderful book, you wouldn't finished to read.Sometimes it can appear "too much - excessive", with its detailed and hyper-realistic descriptions. But everything helps us giving thickness to the story, giving it a truth (or more...).
Only getting into this "odd" universe - limited by a life-boat, the sea, the sheltering sky, just with a young castaway and a tiger - we can understand "how deep is the ocean".
Pi and Richard Parker have reached Stockholm on Saturday and I have already devoured the book until Sunday afternoon. An amazing story, I have to say. But I did not like the abrupt ending and especially disliked the disillusionment that I felt when I "heard" the story without animals that Pi told to the two Japanese in the end. The book could definitely do without that. The best part for me was the part about Pi's life in Pondicherry and the insights into how a zoo owned by his family was run. The book will be off to the next reader, lelley, as soon as I get her address.
30th Nov: lelley asked to be skipped, so now I am waiting for the address of arina to send the book to Portugal. 4th Dec: I received Arina's address today and will send the book to her tomorrow.
I'm soory for not having reported the arrival of the book any sooner. It's with me now (for far more time than it should), but i'm almost done so it will not take me much longer to send it to the next one in line.
I must say that I'm enjoying this one very much...
I must say that I'm enjoying this one very much...
I really didn't expect to like this book as much as i did. It's a book that grows on you and lingers on your mind for quite some time after you've read and that is good.
I should know, i've read it a couple of months ago and i still remember it!
It was rightly brought to my attention that i have kept this book for far too long (for that i apologise). So as soon as synphonicca sends me her address it will be sent on it's way. And to all of you waiting for this book, my apologies for the delay and thanks for your patience.
I should know, i've read it a couple of months ago and i still remember it!
It was rightly brought to my attention that i have kept this book for far too long (for that i apologise). So as soon as synphonicca sends me her address it will be sent on it's way. And to all of you waiting for this book, my apologies for the delay and thanks for your patience.
This entry is just to let you know that this one is on it's way to symphonica's hand's since Monday last (16th August). Sorry for not having reported it sooner.
Yahoo! Just caught this book, and in the nick of time! I am moving to Austria in a few days, and was hoping this book would arrive in time for me to have somehting to read on the plane ride over! :) Will get to it as soon as possible, and send it to the next person soon.
This was a great book! I read it on the trip over to Vienna, and have enjoyed every minute (well almost every--- some of the graphic violent stuff made me a little queasy....) :)I understand why this book got some mixed reviews, and why there was a scandal when it won the Booker pirze (or was it the Giller.... I can't remember.) The end is a little sketchy, and the religious undertones and overtones, so well crafted and organized and explored in the first part of the book, fell to the wayside a bit, in my opinion, in the last third to fourth of the book.
But overall, I loved it. I just soared through most of it, feeling his thirst, his panic, his desperation. Very well described i thought!
Thanks so much for starting this ring, and letting me be a part of it. This stop for the book has been an appreciative one!
All the best! Will be sending on to zibeline as soon as I get an address.
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September 15: Address recieved--- will pop it in the mail shortly!
In the post on Septmeber 24th--- sorry for the delay!
Thank you Symphonicca, for the book!
I'll start what I hope a pleasant reading very soon.
I'll start what I hope a pleasant reading very soon.
Pi concluded the telling of his story - with or without some "elements of invention" - last night. It surely gave me a topic to sleep on.
Nonetheless, and despite all the good reviews I've read about the amazing part of the "Life of Pi" - both on the backcover of the book and on this very website -, nonetheless, I was saying, it didn't convince me. Though I may be considered suspicious about opinionating on the subject, since I have a personal aversion to the catholic god - but not to those who choose to believe. In the end, the book was more like a tale about the adventure of a castaway than an apology of religion. In fact, I was more caught up in reading part one than part two, the substantial part of the book. Moreover, even I consider the story with the animals more interesting than the sory without the animals - perhaps because the first one lasts for about two thirds of the book, being thus more detailed, even with horrific slaughtering descriptions; while the second one occupies merely eight pages in the end.
Guess I had set my expectations too high.
All in all - and I'm glad one book produces so many distint reactions! - it's a good friend for a two-week holiday between semesters. But it made me wanna read Garcia Marquez.
I'm sending it to fio-dagua as soon as possible.
After fiodagua's refusal and beladormecidaa & letra's silence, the book was finally sent to Shelbycat two days ago.
Nonetheless, and despite all the good reviews I've read about the amazing part of the "Life of Pi" - both on the backcover of the book and on this very website -, nonetheless, I was saying, it didn't convince me. Though I may be considered suspicious about opinionating on the subject, since I have a personal aversion to the catholic god - but not to those who choose to believe. In the end, the book was more like a tale about the adventure of a castaway than an apology of religion. In fact, I was more caught up in reading part one than part two, the substantial part of the book. Moreover, even I consider the story with the animals more interesting than the sory without the animals - perhaps because the first one lasts for about two thirds of the book, being thus more detailed, even with horrific slaughtering descriptions; while the second one occupies merely eight pages in the end.
Guess I had set my expectations too high.
All in all - and I'm glad one book produces so many distint reactions! - it's a good friend for a two-week holiday between semesters. But it made me wanna read Garcia Marquez.
I'm sending it to fio-dagua as soon as possible.
After fiodagua's refusal and beladormecidaa & letra's silence, the book was finally sent to Shelbycat two days ago.
Just to say i've received this, it's safe and well and has joined the small community of ring/ray books that all arrived in the past week :)
I really enjoyed this book, especially the descriptions of how animals live together etc. It was a little odd at the end and made me a little uncomfortable with what might have happened, you're just not sure :) Now all i have to remember if trapped on a lifeboat (with or without animals etc.) is "So long as no excessive water is lost through perspiration, the body can survive up to fourteen days without water. If you feel thirsty, suck a button."!!
Right, i'm going to get digitaltempest's address and send this on.
Digitaltempest seems to be ingoring PM's so i tried cat-w who has read it already, so am now trying spaceystacey.
Right, i'm going to get digitaltempest's address and send this on.
Digitaltempest seems to be ingoring PM's so i tried cat-w who has read it already, so am now trying spaceystacey.
Put in post yesterday! To SpaceyStacey.
received in the post this past Wednesday. Will be reading shortly and then sending back out on the journey.
Thank you for sharing. Just finished this one last night 3/28/2007. Mailed it off this am to lakelady2282 via surface mail.
Thank you for sharing. Just finished this one last night 3/28/2007. Mailed it off this am to lakelady2282 via surface mail.
Journal Entry 28 by lakelady2282 from Lake Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, June 7, 2007
Arrived safely yesterday. Sorry I couldn't catch it yesterday as bc seemed to be down. Looking forward to reading it. Thanks spacey and loopy.
Journal Entry 29 by lakelady2282 from Lake Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, August 2, 2007
Oh my God! The book has been travelling for four years and it is looking pretty good for the miles it has clocked up.
Like other readers before me I felt some of the scenes were too graphic and the ending rushed. However I believed in Richard Parker wholeheartedly and really enjoyed descriptions of the Pondicherry zoo and how it was run. I was expecting more philosophizing so was surprised by the lack of it. Or at least that''s how it appeared to me. Thanks everyone for sharing and will pm Jakaluma soon.
Like other readers before me I felt some of the scenes were too graphic and the ending rushed. However I believed in Richard Parker wholeheartedly and really enjoyed descriptions of the Pondicherry zoo and how it was run. I was expecting more philosophizing so was surprised by the lack of it. Or at least that''s how it appeared to me. Thanks everyone for sharing and will pm Jakaluma soon.
Journal Entry 30 by lakelady2282 from Lake Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Jakaluma hasn''t answered although I''ve pmmed her twice. Will try arakune.
Journal Entry 31 by lakelady2282 from Lake Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, August 22, 2007
No answer from arakune and I notice that they haven't registered any books for nearly two years. Will pm pyan.
Journal Entry 32 by lakelady2282 from Lake Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on Sunday, August 26, 2007
Pyan has answered asking to be skipped. Let me know if you would like the book back or I can post it off to be released at the Melbourne BC Convention in October. I am sending a bag of books next month for release and I can include this one. best wishes,
Debbie
Debbie
Wow, this book has been travelling for such a long time, and was just about the first bookcrossing ray I ever started.
I think it should keep travelling, so feel free to find a new home for it wherever you like.
I think it should keep travelling, so feel free to find a new home for it wherever you like.
Journal Entry 34 by lakelady2282 at Australian Bookcrossing convention 2007 in Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia on Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (10/4/2007 UTC) at Australian Bookcrossing convention 2007 in Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia
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Picked up from the Table of Temptation at the Melbourne Convention.
Journal Entry 36 by sarahbear at By Mail, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (12/3/2008 UTC) at By Mail, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases
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Bag filler being sent to Briz-cowgirl
Bag filler being sent to Briz-cowgirl
Received today with a massive pile of books from sarahbear, thank you!
I originally found this book a bit hard-going - a bit slow intially but I was determined to keep going, knowing what raves and awards this book has had, I didn't want to miss anything! Interesting story, at the end I was going a bit WTF?? A little too abrupt finish for my liking. I much preferred the animal theory of the trip rather than the alternative that is rushed out at the end. The book has kept me thinking for a few days after reading it though, which is a good achievement so it must have hit some spot in my subconscious! Thanks sarahbear for including this in the bookbag.
Journal Entry 39 by briz-cowgirl at Brisbane, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Monday, April 20, 2009
Released 15 yrs ago (4/21/2009 UTC) at Brisbane, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases
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Sending on to KLL, who selected this from the OZ VBB. Hope you enjoy it!
Sending on to KLL, who selected this from the OZ VBB. Hope you enjoy it!
Received today! I've actually read this book in 2003/2004 and really loved it. I mostly picked it up so my boyfriend can read it too (though I'll probably read it again too)
Thanks briz-cowgirl!
Thanks briz-cowgirl!
Journal Entry 41 by KLL at Sayers Cafe in Leederville, Western Australia Australia on Sunday, March 28, 2010
Released 14 yrs ago (3/27/2010 UTC) at Sayers Cafe in Leederville, Western Australia Australia
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Released during the March Perth Bookcrossing Meetup.
Find more about the Perth Bookcrossing Meetup at: http://www.meetup.com/BookcrossingWA/
Released during the March Perth Bookcrossing Meetup.
Find more about the Perth Bookcrossing Meetup at: http://www.meetup.com/BookcrossingWA/
