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Title: Eat or be Eaten
Review: Once past the horrifying thought of being cast adrift in a lifeboat with a tiger with only one waking thought that is to eat you, the story becomes charming. The stream of consciousness of a genteel adolescent Indian boy, the son of a zoo keeper, who must resort to savagery himself to survive is heart-wrenching. Martel's mastery of the language, vivid description and cryptic observations about the good and evil in all of us holds the reader entranced even though the situation is absurd. Pi finally lands on an island where the only living creatures are markeets and carnivorous plants. He is forced to set himself, and his tiger, adrift again. Based upon a true incident, we are not sure what is true and what is not. The opening line is "My suffering left me sad and gloomy." The overall affect of the events in the book left me feeling the same way. It is a bitter-sweet, yet brilliant read.Linda Ballou
