This book is worth reading just for this quote "Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?" This is said by the main character, Pi, to government officials who are questioning Pi about his journey. The quote provides the perfect perspective for reflecting on Pi's long and difficult albeit fictional trip. I don't want to spoil too much, but Pi's family embarks on an ocean voyage from India to Canada. They own a zoo so they were transporting some animals when their ship sunk. Pi and a tiger named Richard Parker are the only survivors.
Pi manages to train Richard Parker to obey him. Then they find an island refuge, until they realize the island is made from carnivorous algae. I checked it out, carnivorous algae exists in the real world. Martel didn't make that part up, though whether or not an entire island can be made of it is still questionable. The two survive 227 days on the ocean and finally end up in central America. Now anyone who reads this story is going to find it hard to believe. They'll just chalk it up to imagination and fiction and ignore the possibility of it all. But we all know that truth is stranger than fiction, so this is really not that hard to believe. Even if it is, what's wrong with hard to believe?
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