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... just read:
Gone with the Wind by Margeret Mitchell
The Uncommon Reader: A Novella by Alan Bennett
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
I am now reading:
The Mitfords edited by Charlotte Mosley
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess ... with natural history or environemtal themes.
For example, Watership Down is one of my all time favourites.
So is Life of Pi. On some levels the book is more concerned with religion and philosophy, but the details on animal behaviour are exceptional.
I'll go young as well. I did ... ... with natural history or environemtal themes.
For example, Watership Down is one of my all time favourites.
So is Life of Pi. On some levels the book is more concerned with religion and philosophy, but the details on animal behaviour are exceptional.
I'll go young as well. I did ... ... het vooruitzicht, dus morgenvroeg begin ik eraan en waarschijnlijk is't tegen zondagavond uit. Op hetzelfde stapeltje nog Life of Pi en Gulliver's Travels. Maar die zullen voor een ander rustig weekend zijn. ... of the North by Sarah Hall (2008, 207 pp.)
53. The Road Past Altamont by Gabrielle Roy (1966, 146 pp.)
54. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
55. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (2006, 350 pp.)
56. Jacob Two-Two’s First Spy Case by Mordecai Richler (1995, 144 pp.)
57. Unacc ... ... liked it, so I will check into her others
213. The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King - audiobook
214. Life of Pi by Yann Martel - another LT recommendation that I really liked
215. The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman - audiobook
216. Lost by Hans-Ulric ... Had to start a new message there as the one above was starting to act funny (overload!) ^^
Finally, #33 was Life of Pi, which came very highly recommended by a friend of mine who has a good taste in books. I wasn't looking forward that much to the book, the story just didn't sound all that ... On the agenda for this week: The Life of Pi by Yann Martel, which I am greatly enjoying, The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason, Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne by David Starkey, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch, T ... 40. Life of Pi ... by Yann Martel
The meercat island was a great creation. Right now, I am reading Neverwhere, which is fun. Also reading New Moon, also a lot of fun. I am going to start Life of Pi and The King of Lies when I am done with the others. ... make it true.
If there's one way that I could say that faith plays a role in my life, it would be because of reading Life of Pi in which faith is just like the suspension of disbelief we take on when reading a story. The story may not be true and my life may have no real meaning in the ... ... matter)
I know I've got a few doorstoppers ahead of me, but even so I celebrating what I've done.
96. (129) Life of Pi - Yann Martel (319pp)
I read this one for my RL bookgroup. Afterwards I discovered that I'd actually given it to my father a few years ago - just a quick ... So, which story in Life of Pi did everyone choose to believe? Message 1: The two book are nothing alike. Also, I liked Life of Pi much better than The Old Man and the Sea.
Message 2: The ending really is pretty good, but it isn't going to impress you if you didn't like the first fifty pages of the book.
-- M1001. ... a boat in them, but other than that, they don't have that much in common. In my opinion at least. So I wouldn't give up on Life of Pi because you hated The Old Man and the Sea. You may still not like it, but I wouldn't toss it aside just because of that comparison. I just read about this one on another board.
My town used Life of Pi as it's One City, One Book book. I got a copy, read the back cover (in which is was compared to Old Man and the Sea, which I hated) and I think that turned me off the book. I started it, but kept thinking "If this is a ... Atonement and Life of Pi have been the only two this year that were directly inspired by people's reviews on LT. I liked the second one, but I liked the first one not at all. Life of Pi and Book of Lost Things are perhaps considered older than YA, but both would provide ample discussion points if it is a discussion-type book club. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis are always good, though I suppose are more in the fantasy genre. The Temeraire series is fun ... ... the Rain by Garth Stein. It will probably be one of those books like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night or Life of Pi that ends up selling a bazillion copies. Who'd have thunk it? A philosophizing dog and auto racing. A quick, charming, tear-jerking, easy read. Koalatees - I HATED Life of Pi, but I hear so many people refer to it as their favorite book! ...yuck... Life of Pi. It was a struggle to finish. ... are particularly compelling.
Dove Can you imagine sailing alone around the world when you're 16?
Fiction;
Life of Pi Rather fantastic story of shipwreck...with a tiger.
Robinson Caruso I was surprised and pleased with the religious overtones in this book.
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon:
"If somebody else knows how tough it is, then it's all right."
Life of Pi:
"Everything was normal and then...?"
"Then normal sank." ... by Jeannette Walls. Everything I've heard about it has been good, so we'll see...
Regarding the other posts on Life of Pi, I just gave my copy away last week. I'd held onto for so long thinking I SHOULD read it. But I can't stand the solitary shipwreck/animals being eaten theme ... kiwi, I have never been able to pick up The Life of Pi. It is like it jumps away from me.. lol
I never finished Life of Pi, I shouldn't be surprised. I never liked the ship wreck theme which is why I resisted reading such a renowned book for so long (as well as Robinson Crusoe for that matter) but I really enjoyed the first thrird of the book when he was growing up in India in a zoo and ... Woohoo! Finally.........
I read Life of Pi.
How about The Secret History by Donna Tartt? Ive read the island of dr. moreau - how about Life of Pi? From the used bookstore:
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
Drop City by T.C. Boyle
Clearly I went a little nuts with some of the books ... I'd have to go with Life of Pi, just because it was such an unusual book and had a great twist ending. I liked the theological discussions at the beginning of the book. I was also impressed how well the plot moved along despite the fact that most of the story occurs on a small life boat, with ... ... Melville
all Wordsworth Classics paperbacks.
- To Father / Dana Sobel
- The Brooklyn Follies / Paus Auster
- Life of Pi / Yann Martel
- De Rekenmeester / Dieter Jörgensen
- Het Tolhuis / Paul Janssen
- The Great Transformation / Karen Armstrong
- A Travele ... The Life of Pi by Yann Martel Didn't read much at all last week.. Still going with Life of Pi. When the hyena chewed off the leg of the zebra I think my desire to keep reading vanished. 16. Life of Pi: A Novel by Yann Martel - this book has been read widely and talked about so often i need not offer a repetition of its description. Thought I needed to lighten my reading fare a bit (after a succession and being in the middle of some dark, heavy reads, a small respite sort of), ... My favorite comes from the end of Life of Pi when Pi has asked Mr. Okamoto and Mr. Chiba which version of the story they prefer, with the animals or without. Okamoto and Chiba reply that the animal story was the better story.
"Pi Patel: Thank you. And so it goes with God."
Another is from Ma ... ... )
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
The Chameleon's Shadow by Minette Walters
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
... Grip"? "Sexing The Cherry"? "Hangover Square"?
Several suggested titles are ones that I've begun and abandoned: Life Of Pi, One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Henderson The Rain King, The Plumed Serpent, and The Satanic Verses. Maybe I should make a renewed effort to finish them ... ... I finished up City of dreams : a novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and early Manhattan by Beverly Swerling and have started Life of Pi by Yann Martel. I resisted reading this one for years because it didn't appeal to me and now that I am reading it I love it and am soooo glad I gave it a go.
... I'm reading Life of Pi by Yann Martel at the moment.
This is a book I really didn't want to read. A combination of the cover (yes yes I know "don't judge a book by it's cover") and what I had heard it was about: a boy lost in the pacific on a raft with imaginary animals as friends. It ... ... rm Michel Houellebecq Plateforme
29 Korrigeringer Jonathan Franzen The Corrections
30 Historien om Pi Yann Martel Life of Pi
31 "Velkommen til vårt Hillbrow" Phaswane Mpe Welcome to our Hillbrow
32 Austerlitz W.G. Sebald Austerlitz
33 Om forlatelse Ian McEwan Atonement
3 ... ... &
the devil's mode by Anthony Burgess
and from the discount book store...
A Chance Meeting by Rachel Cohen,
Life of pi by Yann Martel,
The Secret History by Donna Tartt &
House of Stone by Christina Lamb ... of careful research or just something the author made up.
For example - In Yann Martel's spectacularly gorgeous book Life of Pi the author claims (p167 Canongate paperback ed.) that
'the horizon, as seen from a height of five feet on a calm day, is two and a half miles away'.
I ... ... a book club) but I'm not sad I didn't. I don't think I've ever abandoned a book so thin before.
I didn't really give The Life of Pi a proper chance. I gave up after a chapter meaning to go back and then suddenly it was due back at the library. Again though, I haven't felt moved to ... ... the White
The Remains of the Day
A Prayer for Owen Meany
The Deptford Trilogy
The Magus
Jude the Obscure
Life of Pi
To Kill a Mockingbird
Great Expectations
As always with these lists, the problem is what to leave out, rather than what to put in. I've limited myself ... ... you are always trying to keep your hands on top of others!! I am also one of the few on this thread who has not yet read The Life Of Pi! easiest reply to Lord of the Rings would be Lord of the Flies, but its been done...
so having read LOTR, I'll offer Life of Pi... ... karenwardill. I've read 6 of the 28, but several of the others are on my TBR pile. I haven't even gotten around to reading The Life of Pi yet, but based on this, I think I'll move it right to the top of the pile. Weighing in about Life of Pi. I love to go to author readings and have been to a great many, including Ian McEwan, Atwood, Carey and Ishiguro from this list. I must say, however, that by far the most entertaining, illuminating and erudite author I have seen in over thirty years is Yann Martel ... ... (as a child)
A Great and Terrible Beauty
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hobbit
I Am the Messenger
Life of Pi
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (even though this is already included under The Chronicles of Narnia)
The Little Prince (assigned reading for ... ... Marktplaats.nl bird left a wonderful present on my doorstep (actually, he put it in the mailbox, how clever is that?!):
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
My friend was raving about it and although the titel is of course very familiar, I've never read it. When I thought about why not, I found ... ... have been summarized in 10, etc. And it is all info that has been done so many times.
Besides that, continuing on with Life of Pi aloud when hubs is home at night - about halfway now.
Chapter 7 of A New Earth by Tolle with the online class tonight after my Relay Round Table meeting.
... Thought of another one...The Life of Pi was our towns One City: One book selection a couple of years ago. I started reading it thinking "This is as bad as Old Man and the Sea. I flipped the book around and one of the reviewers compared it quite favorably to that novel. I couldn't make it any ... Sorry, double post ... dreams
6) Family matters
7) Gilead
8) The joyluck club
9) The life of insects
10) Midnight's children
11) Life of Pi
12) The poisonwood bible
13) The sea
14) Sophies choice
15) The things they carried
16) Vanishing Point
17) War and Peace
18) Catcher in the ... ... read only fiction? If so, I would also recommend Half of a Yellow Sun, The Road, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, and Life of Pi. In addition, I would suggest:
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Behind ... I'd recommend:
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Road - Cormac McCarthy #82 - I'd give the opposite advice. I loved Life of Pi and gave up (temporarily) on Catch-22. I just couldn't get into it at all. Haven't read Persuasion yet. In spite of my anecdotal argument, based on the fact that you liked Like Water for Chocolate, I'd definitely recommend Life of Pi ... ... by Margaret Mitchell
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Rabbit Rich by John Updike
Saturday by Ian McEwan
The Curious In ... I know lots of people loved Life of Pi, but I do not share these sentiments. Honestly, one of the lowest ranked books in my opinion that I have read from this list, and I'm closing in on 100. I have not read Persuasion, and Catch-22 is on my short list from my TBR pile. I think you know ... ... time as it's been a real joy to read, it's def one of my fav's now. But what should I read, I'm thinking Persuasion or Life of Pi or maybe even Catch 22) I know couldn't be more different, what do you think? 14. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Wow. So I wanted to take my next book a little slower because I felt I wasn't enjoying the experience as much with my book-a-day speed reading. I couldn't imagine speed reading Life of Pi anyway. This book is so full of questions, so deep, I don't even know ... ...
Still deciding what to read next in fiction. Still working on Tolle with the Oprah online group. And still reading Life of Pi aloud with HBB. This is slow because he is only home on the weekends and we only read at night before we go to sleep. ... ever been reading a book and a good friend, a relative, a perfect stranger, completely ruins it for you?
I've had both Life of Pi and Atonement ruined for me in the past month. For those who've read the books, you know the endings have a twist. I suspect I would have liked the books a lot ... |
