Pi=3.14!

Long time since i wanted to read a good book or rather a book at that!the last book i read was ALCHEMIST by Paulo Coehelo.This is enough to prove that i aint a passionate book reader,a hungry bookworm or anythin tat even relates the book!But as everyone say..there is a beginning to everything,i read a book.Well, it wasn the ultimate intention to read the book..It was the fact that i had so much of useless time.. u knw!( i bet evryone does!)I had already read the prologue some six months back... Thank god i din try readin it again.. else i wud have met the same end of not readin the book(AGAIN).

So i jus thought it would be nice to write what i felt while readin it(i aint a swift readin buff.. i read line by line!)

The first thing tat struck me right away was the name of the book "LIFE OF PI".Oh god,pi=3.14... not a mathematical biography please!Who is bothered abt the Alphas Betas and Pis..All r the same confusin symbols in greek!However,you knw about the GUT feeling of humans... yeah yeah..so i opened the book when i was at the peak of boredom!It read part one 'TORONTO AND PONDICHERRY' sounds weird.. created curiosity!Thinkin how totally two different places could be related i started...
The first few chapters had a brief description of the protagonist's Majors at University of Toronto and his Thesis( So now i knew the topic made sense..and the protagonist was a HE..fair enuf.. but the 'Pi' part and the pondicherry part still running at the back of my mind!).Half n hour later i was readin chapter2..ITALICS .. took me sometime to understand tat Italic font refers to the author's way of talkie talkie!the other font was de story part...and suddenly i read a line "I WAS NAMED AFTER A SWIMMING POOL"... thats when my mind went...gee not bad.. there is sum stuff..go ahead.. u wud love it!!So the entire story went on n on and i found the answers for the other two questions...(pi=piscine molitor patel( the hero) n pondicherry ..his native)..now if u are thinkin why such a weird name... try readin de book(come on u don expect me to tell de entire story)!Believe me.. i loved the way how"PI" came into existence and the lil lil in incidents!!

By this time u wud have guessed that i totally fell in love with the book.. so i paced up and read on and on...it was a total surprise..the metamorphosis of the weak beginning into a solid work was such a feast to the eyes!!totally unrelated stuff weaved together in a systematic way..from PI to zoo to the H-I-C( guess wat it is? Hinduism,Islam,Christianity) I was so moved and touched emotionally..so i concluded.. I M GONNA FINISH THIS BOOK!So i read on.. the intricate details of the beach,the animals,the zoo keepers,the prayers...gosh it was lik i cud feel life flowing thro me( well i told u .. i wasn a bookworm and this new experience totally took me aboard!..M so sorry i aint disclosing any more details.. i cant and i shouldn)

on n on... i went on..for i felt the peace inside on readin it.Finally it was PART 2.. 'THE PACIFIC OCEAN'.. i was lik wat next..ANTARTICA,ANDROMEDA.. hmmm..first line struck me lik a thunderbolt..'THE SHIP SANK"(What the hell.. how can the ship sink out of nowhere!)..i continued..it was only pi and Richard Parker(R.P) al over..(two human beings wat big deal!) and it was after few pages that i learnt..R.P was a fully grown BENGAL TIGER(as pi said.. i felt a cold tingle goin up and down my spine...for i visualized evrythin written...my mind..cant do anythin abt it) and followin this was de entire story of how and why the ship sank and wat happened next(of course u can expect the dreadful existence and stuff lik tat)..It was indeed very boring sometimes... yet whenevr there was an element of boredom..a part fully mysterious came by..something i least expected was a ring master show on the life boat!so my mind was pushed further ...to read it..

Few parts involved a miniZoo on the lifeboat( u wud knw abt the residents if u read the back cover)....followed by life saving discoveries on board!beyond this...the PI character was so irritatin... god so many questions..(I was lik..OH MY..if he isn killed on de boat..he wud have definitely died of brain hemorrage...wat on earth is this guy's problem.. come on..die!)It was at this point the Oil ship came into picture.. followed by a big trash in the middle of the ocean and weird things happening on the Island( u wud be thinkin ... this guy reached the island so he was safe.. lived happily ever after..thats wat i thot.. i had around 60-80 pages left... so u knw it wasn the end...at this point.. i jus wanted to know the endin.. my mind and conscience fightin.. mind said read the last few pages and get over it... my conscience said..NOT FAIR..IF U WANNA ENJOY THE BOOK READ IT PROPERLY..come on now be a good gal and continue readin!..ultimately..It was CONSCIENCE(pl ppl.. now dun comment that mind and conscience are the same..))this was when the storm hit the seas..and the other castaway appearin out of nowhere..still m suspicious abt it..so i went on readin abt meerkats,the freshwater ponds and the tasty algae(sweet on the outside and salty on the inside.. i remembered KRACK JACK ad!) and the bizzare things that made PI abandon the island( it was more of a swamp kind.. so now u knw it wasn the end).... things became dull as usual... i couldn read anymore.. that was when i came across the next line "WHEN I REACHED LAND, MEXICO TO BE EXACT..."(what was he doin ?an all America tour or sumthin?)..it irked me to read further and soon i was on PART 3( began from chapter 95..with a topic..BENITO JUDREZ INFIRMARY,TOMATLAN,MEXICO)wow! was the expression with which i was left once i finished it...three characters..Mr.O,Mr.P(pi) and Mr.C.. totally... hilarious twists..with element of reality ,imagination n the ability of human to believe in something!!and thats when i reached the 426th page.. jus two more pages and it wud be over!yeah i finally finished the book.. left with the want to read more.. i nvr wanted the book to get over!

So what next.. i read the Prologue..finally.. and now it made some sense to me..i cud understand how and why this book came into existence(from the cover page..the short review excerpts from the leading journals and papers and YANN MARTEL..(The author,writter,the funny guy) his 'bamboozle'.. and as Mr.Adirubasamy said... It was a story that made me believe in God(more)!!

It took me two days..around 10 hours per day to finish this book..I would say...if u miss this u are missin sumthin in life..WORTH READING..on a more professional note(for a beginner like me)On a scale of 10... i would give it 8.5 on the whole with the plot and the presentation scorin a 9!( i aint an adept and the ratings are bound to change with the reader!)
No wonder it won THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2002

ENJOY READIN.. TC..until the next blog!