{"id":239,"date":"2008-06-26T18:00:28","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2008-07-17T20:24:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T19:24:28","slug":"the-life-of-pi-yann-martel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/06\/the-life-of-pi-yann-martel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life of Pi (Yann Martel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Fiction, 8\/10 &#8211; June 2008<\/em><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/BookReviewImages\/theLifeOfPi.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nFirstly, I realised with a shock that this book wasn&#8217;t going to have a hint of mathematics in it but I got over the disappointment because I liked learning about Zoo keeping and I found a boy wanting to be in 3 religions funny.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The extreme situation that the boy found himself in was an interesting read and a powerful story but because it wasn&#8217;t a true story I felt the factual nature of the book could be deceiving &#8211;  a tiger would not necessarily behave as described in the book! It&#8217;s like a adult fairy tale. The make-believe island comforted me because it reminded me this was a work of fiction &#8211; I wonder if this is what the author intended?<\/p>\n<p>I liked the ending an awful lot &#8211; Which version was the truth? It puts another spin on the potential fictional aspects of the tiger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiction, 8\/10 &#8211; June 2008 Firstly, I realised with a shock that this book wasn&#8217;t going to have a hint of mathematics in it but I got over the disappointment because I liked learning about Zoo keeping and I found a boy wanting to be in 3 religions funny. The extreme situation that the boy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}