Life Of Pi

The book that I am reading, Life Of Pi, is very good at using descriptive language, however, for me, I feel that the book is too slow, and isn't very climactic. I just think that the story takes too long to reach its peak. I think that if you do not like a slow paced book, then I don't believe that you will enjoy reading this book. But, if you do enjoy that kind of book, then the Life Of Pi would be a good book for you to read.

In Life of Pi by Yann Martel, I really like the way that Martel describes the setting of the zoo, in the beginning of the book. It states, " Every morning before I was out the main gate I had one last impression that was both ordinary and unforgettable: a pyramid of turtles; the iridescent snout of a mandrill; the stately silence of a giraffe; the obese, yellow open mouth of a hippo; the beak-and-claw climbing of a macaw parrot up a wire fence; the greeting claps of a shoebill's bill; the senile, lecherous expression of a camel." This is a great description of the detail that Martel went to, just so the reader could picture the setting at which Pi lived in. The characterization that it gives to the animals of the zoo really brings it to life in the readers mind. He could have just said, "the animals watched him as he left", or something like that. But he went the extra mile to describe each and every zoo animal that Pi passed. If you are considering reading the book, check out the summary I have attached to this post.
http://www.wikisummaries.org/Life_of_Pi