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Title: good writing, boring story
Review: I heard great things about this novel, but I found it boring.The first 100 pages are set-up about Pi's life before the shipwreck. These are interesting and unique, a boy so in love with God that he joins 3 religions. But ultimately, this has little to do with the real story of the shipwreck.The next 200 pages are a boy stuck on a small boat with a tiger. Interesting concept, but nothing happens. It's about a 100 pages too long. I ended up skimming over most of it without missing anything.Martel should have cut out about half of the boat travels and interspersed the intro materials with the shipwrecked period as flashbacks to break up the monotony of the middle of the book, and tied his love of multiple religions better into the rest of the story.
