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Title: Empty, over-hyped, and dull
Review: 'Life Of Pi' is very much like the fictional novel 'Amelior' in Martin Amis's 'The Information': half-baked, ethically unsound, and bewilderingly popular. It's not only terribly written and unspeakably dull, it manages to inspire dullness in others. With very few changes, 'Life Of Pi' would probably make a half-decent children's book for precocious but lonely first or second graders; kids probably wouldn't mind or understand that the book's plot was plagiarized or that the central ideas are, well, infantile. Supposedly literate adults who rave about this book's supposed 'spirituality' or 'depth' or 'amazingness' clearly have no idea what they're talking about and should be judged accordingly. Life is exactly a million times too short for this kind of pseudo-intellectual, pseudo-philosophical bunk and the reaction to Martel's unreadable follow-up made abundantly clear what should have been obvious from the opening chapter of 'Life Of Pi': Martel can't write.
