Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

28 reviews

ballista_2003's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I just read a masterpiece. What an incredible introspective story! I took of half a star only because when I first picked this up the beginning is so long and bat sh*t crazy that I was like “what is going on why are we talking about this” for at least the first 40%.

Life of Pi is one of those books that you can envision an entire unit in an English class being focused on. The amount of complex symbolism and significance that is portrayed in a book I just assumed would be about a boy surviving on a boat with a tiger is astronomical. Yes, life of Pi is about survival, but it is also about the complex surrealism of storytelling, religious exploration/symbolism, adaptability, the challenges of life, the duality of nature and so so many more. You could take an entire college course only going into the nitty gritty details and symbols of this story and you still wouldn’t be able to wrap your head around all the complexities of this story.

Yes, the beginning was slow and I was honestly almost tempted to quit because it took 40-50% of the book to really get into the deep stuff, but the exposition is 100% necessary to get to know Pi before the ship sinking and to get your brain pondering Pi’s dilemmas/thought processes.

Overall I do not care what anyone says this book is a masterpiece and to anyone who can’t see that they need to come back and read this in 5 years when they’ve become wiser and are ready to let their imagination run during this story.

HUGE TWs for animal suffering, animal death, human suffering, and human death.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Death

millyfox's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Vomit, Blood, Excrement, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Death of parent

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Cannibalism, Self harm, Alcoholism, Death, Murder, and Child death

josefineisreading's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

I mean I’m glad I read it. As another reviewer said it was like an info dump, an absolute overload of information. The plot moved along slowly that I really had to force myself to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Violence, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Body horror, Blood, Animal death, Death, and Vomit

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Child death and Suicidal thoughts

debosmitathereader's review against another edition

adventurous tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, and Death

Moderate: Murder and Death of parent

Minor: Vomit

wet_towlette's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

I thought I knew what was goes on and then the book ended and I feel kinda stupid. It was really good though     .

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Confinement, Death, Excrement, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Grief, Physical abuse, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Vomit

jenfacen's review against another edition

adventurous reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

Memorable last sentence: “Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr. Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

gabrielleclarke05's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Very good, I just wish it didn’t take half of the book to actually get into the plot but after that it was great. I enjoyed the characters and the twist was fun the pacing was just off

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Grief, Medical trauma, Body horror, Confinement, Mental illness, Vomit, Death, Religious bigotry, Dysphoria, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Animal cruelty, Excrement, Murder, Violence, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, and Self harm

joella82's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

kirstinbuchan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Animal death, Body horror, Torture, Vomit, Cannibalism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Excrement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

frankieclc's review against another edition

5.0

chapter 99!!!!????????

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Violence, Gore, and Cannibalism