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Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition

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“Will the tiger be menacing; will the ocean be threatening; will the island be something out of Frankenstein or will it be an Eden?”—Yann Martel

Life of Pi, first published in 2002, became an international bestseller and remains one of the most extraordinary and popular works of contemporary fiction.

In 2005 an international competition was held to find the perfect artist to illustrate Yann Martel’s Man Booker Prize–winning novel. From thousands of entrants, Croatian artist Tomislav Torjanac was chosen. This lavishly produced edition features forty of Torjanac’s beautiful four-color illustrations, bringing Life of Pi to splendid, eye-popping life.

Tomislav Torjanac says of his illustrations: “My vision of the illustrated edition of Life of Pi is based on paintings from a first person’s perspective—Pi’s perspective. The interpretation of what Pi sees is intermeshed with what he feels and it is shown through [the] use of colors, perspective, symbols, hand gestures, etc.”

LanguageEnglish
PublisherMariner Books
Release dateFeb 1, 2007
ISBN9780156035811
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Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition
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Yann Martel

YANN MARTEL was born in Spain in 1963 of Canadian parents. Life of Pi won the 2002 Man Booker Prize (among other honors) and was adapted to the screen in the Oscar-winning film by Ang Lee. Martel is also the author of the novels The High Mountains of Portugal, Beatrice and Virgil, and Self, the collection of stories The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and a collection of letters to the prime minister of Canada, What Is Stephen Harper Reading?. He lives in Saskatchewan, Canada.

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I finished this and that's the best I can say about it. I kept reading in the hope that it would get better and I'd discover what all the fuss was about, well it didn't and I didn't.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Enjoyable read until...

    Disappointed he ripped off Max and The Cats.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Good but weird. I have NO idea what that island was all about.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I listened to this on CD. The reader did a great job with the accents, really bringing the story to life. If I had been reading on the page, I might have skipped some of the meandering facts with which the story began, the information on animal behavior, and then later the unbearable tedium of life on the ocean. But having gone through it all, I was rewarded with a sense of having shared his Pi's survival. I am not sure about the coda: why the alternate version of events, the reader's choice which to believe, the horrific seemingly realistic version, or the one where the boy lives with a tiger? It seems like a standard metafiction move. I can't decide if it really added anything, but I suppose the fact that it makes me ask that question is the something that it added.Addendum: can't stop thinking about this book since the tiger mauling in San Francisco.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    My impression of this book suffers for the circumstances under which I read it. I was ill in hospital and near bed-ridden, so the parallel of a boat drifting on the Pacific ocean and the monotony of my days in a closed room felt very much overlapped.I feel that the base story of this book is well known, or at least what makes up the bulk of the setting, and I'm not sure one can say much more without getting into a lengthy conversation about "why?" It is ponderous outside of Pi's daily survival activities, and few books have made both inclined to think and inclined to accept the face value at the same time.Perhaps I will read it again, to see just how much my state of mind was colouring my view at the time.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A shipwrecked boy has a tiger in his lifeboat.2.5/4 (Okay).The beginning and end of the book are good, but most of the story - the actual survival stuff and tiger training - was a chore to read. Maybe I would have liked it better if I hadn't already seen the movie. This is a rare instance of a movie based on a book making the book more-or-less obsolete.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I'm so damn confused. And did the middle section really need to be THAT long?! I found myself wishing the tiger had eaten him.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Enh, what can I say? I liked the tiger more than I liked Pi, and didn't really get into the allegory so I hated the ending. It did not live up to the hype.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    tedious, but a good story
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    It is an interesting book, and different in that, a boy is stuck with Bengal tiger in a life boat.Its a good read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This book is a mesmerizing testament of the human spirit revealed through the unwavering story of how far a young man will go in order to survive. The ending that will leave the reader thinking long after the book has been closed.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I read Life of Pi because I've always heard it was a good read and I agree with that after reading it. What I liked most about it was how it was set up, the beginning tells you the story being told is a look back on it from years after it happened, gives back ground, then delivers the sea tale, and the finally the huge twist that completely changes the readers perspective on the book. I didn't see the twist coming at all and I enjoyed that even though I felt somewhat upset that this incredible story might not be what it seems.

  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Worth pressing on; if you applied the Page 69 test here, you might well cast this book aside, irritated by the fussy tone and treatment. The first section is tiresome, just about redeemed by the interest of some of the quirky topics covered (sloths, swimming pools, a debunking of zoos that prefigures the main story). But when that main story eventually emerges, a fabulous Robinson Crusoe-style scenario of an individual coping with isolation and adversity, it’s gripping, and rolls swiftly along. And it’s a genuinely novel scenario, not one you’d have heard of or even imagined before. The third phase of the book becomes fanciful again – a phantom castaway, a meerkat world that suggests one of the later travels of Gulliver – but by then one is beguiled by the writing, the protagonist, the tale itself. Insightful, wise, credible at least? Doubtful. But the story has an elegance, beauty even, conveyed gently and calmly by that main character (Pi)’s distinct voice. Memorable.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Loved it. Wasn't too crazy about the end chunk on the oraganic island but whatever. Great stuff.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    As I approached the conclusion of this book I couldn't help but thinking that Pi managed to get his tiger managed just as he managed all of his gods.

    For me, this was a slow, uninteresting read. In the last third of there book there were some interesting snippets. Generally, this was a narration of a sequence-of-events with rare deviations in to embellishment.

    The first third of this book really damaged my ability to suspend disbelief and engage imagination in order to enjoy the story.

    I just glad this is over.



  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Well the book was good
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This book makes one think. It is engaging and discusses religion and power struggles. At first the story seems very random, and becomes even more unbelievable once he is on the boat with the tiger. The end of the book has a dramatic twist that put a smile on my face as it brought everything together.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The author does an excellent job of balancing the dark, gruesome, sometimes horrific nature of being human with the beauty and resilience of nature and the human spirit. Then the author challenges the reader to choose a moral compass with which to focus her perception of it all. I think Pi would agree with my perspective: all humans have a dark side, we should not dwell on the dark side, but instead choose to focus on and embrace the light.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book will be packed in my suitcase when I depart for my deserted island. I know, I know, I should rather pack booze.. but this is an amazing read. When I finished Life of Pi the first time, I just started reading again right from the beginning. The story is so unbelievable that you can almost believe it really happened. Try it.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    So awful. So long. So repetitive, and unrelenting. I couldn't stop, though, so I know I didn't care for the ending, although I was glad it came.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Sort of felt the book was overrated. It's good but not great, IMHO.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    When this book became a bestseller, and I read the blurb to learn that the bulk of the story took place in a lifeboat, containing one child, and one full grown Bengal tiger, I knew I had to read it. I was not let down. Psychologically compelling and destined to be classic.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This book was less sappy / sentimental than I expected. Also more puzzling. A worthy survival story with "magical realist" ambience. I found it "a little less" and "a little more" in many ways and I'm still scratching my head a bit over "the message," if there was one (not that there has to be). Is it really: "God makes a better story than No-God?"
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    It´s difficult to determine wich is the subject of the book. It begins depicting the life of an indian teenager and its religious interests. It tells a lot about animals and zoos. But most pages are about a survival story in the middle of the Pacific ocean. That´s a cruel and sometimes boring story. At the end of the book one even thinks that it has only been a fantasy of a teenage to cover a crueler story. One learns, but overall what one learns is that life can be incredibly cruel and go on.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    One of the most beautiful stories I read in a while. When I went into this, I thought to myself "How much can you write about being stranded at sea?"Well, it's significantly more involved than that.And the ending. Oh.My.God...Incredible.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Somehow me and Man Booker Prize don't mesh well. This was pretentious, religiously tainted bullshit so high on the bullshit-o-metre that I couldn't finish. Oh yeah, a tiger foregoing juicy boy. Not.

    Why can't books getting prizes be better?
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This was fun read. Life of Pi is a well written exploration of human frailty and strength. At first Pi's acceptance of all faiths as true bothered me (well, it still does) I realized that this is a common problem today, and well reflected in the book. I didn't care for the ending much, but I won't leave any spoilers as to why.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I really did not want to read this, but I am so glad I did. It captured my attention and read much faster than I thought it would. At the beginning, Pi says it is a story to make you believe; I'm not sure about that, but it does really make you think.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Martel presents an excellent biological description of the family zoo depicted in "Life of Pi". The ability to captivate the reader from the narrative of the only human character is phenomenal. As I listened to the audiobook, I felt as if I could survive if stranded at sea.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I had no idea what this book was going to be about when I picked it up. I found the story very interesting and it captured my attention for sure. The ending confused me a bit so I was left unsure of what the true story was. But I like the original the best.