Life Of Pi.1

I am enthralled by this novel. I cannot put it down. For the last few years, everyone who has read it and knows me has told me I "had to" read this novel and I said "yeah yeah ill get to it". Well now the time has come. And let me say- I am so glad. This is literally the only novel to date, in my present memory, that has made me think incredibly deeply about life, human nature, what it all means, and how we should go about living it... while making me laugh aloud at the same exact time. Martel seems to have a philosophic mindset with a splash of irony and a shake of situational humor all in the character of a young and mighty headstrong Indian boy with a first-year French vocab word for a name. Life is so philosophical, just trying to figure out how to live from day to day requires one to tap into his inner Derrida or Hobbes (lets leave out the Nietzscheans, thats a whole other blog). However, life is also laugh out loud funny with moments of bitter and sweet sweet irony. This novel sums it all up in a seemingly quaint story, with monumental lessons to teach.