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Title: Way overrated
Review: This is not a great book. It is merely an okay book with pretensions to greatness. Yann Martel (or the narrator) claims that this is a story to make you believe in God. Wow. That sets the bar pretty high. The book begins with a story about a little boy that loves all religions with equal fervor. But this theme is forgotten almost entirely. Overal, the book feels disunified, as if Martel didn't have a clear idea about what he was trying to say or how he wished to say it. The component parts don't necessarily work together. On top of this, Martel's prose is occasionally quite clunky. There were more than a couple of sentences that made me grimace. Martel obviously has some talent but also needs to mature a lot as a writer. I won't say you would be wasting your time reading this book, but there are a lot of books that in my mind would take precedence.
