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Title: Erm... were we reading the same book?
Review: I felt compelled to write because so many of the other reviews seem to have missed the whole point. I don't wish to give away the ending but in the last ten pages or so the author neatly punctures all the tales of derring do and tiger-management that have gone before with an alternative take on Pi's life at sea.Rather than bringing the reader closer to god, Martel is lampooning the insufficiency of organised religion to deal with extreme situations. Young Pi is forced to abandon his vegetarian, egalitarian, humanitarian gentility and draw upon the darkest aspects of his nature including murder and cannibalism (choices which adherents to Pi's adopted trinity of Hinduism, Islam and Christianity are technically prohibited from) to realise the one true religion of self-preservation.After the enjoyably preposterous tales of life at sea with a bengal tiger named Richard, the book was saved for me and made memorable by the revelations of Pi's alternative story.
