REVIEW: LIFE OF PI
The age-old question concerning movies and books arose as I was about to enter the cinema to see "Life of Pi 3D..." should I have read the book after the movie (books are 99% of the time better)? By pure chance I had picked up "Life of Pi," a thick, small novel in my school's library based on the cover alone, of a small foreign child with a tiger in a tiny boat, both looking down at the sea. Of course with "Pi" you're expecting some math genius, "A Beautiful Mind" type-deal, but then I read the first few chapters that night. The novel was written in the form of a series of flashbacks, presented as one big story Piscine (Pi) Patel tells a couple of Chinese investigators. While it was a mammoth of a thing to get through, it was enchantingly rewarding, and was one of the most interesting books I've read in a long time. "Life of Pi" opens up quietly in a zoo, where Pi and his family make a living. Pi is so thoroughly in ...