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Post by rockhound on Oct 23, 2003 20:35:14 GMT -5
Anyone here read the Booker Prize winning Life of Pi by Yann Martel? It's a fantastic tale with many (coincidental) similarities to the Scar. From being "lost" at sea to potentiality mining, it's all there. "Pi" is the tale of the son of a zookeeper who finds himself adrift on the Pacific, with only one companion: A large, hungry Bengal Tiger...
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Post by Doul on Oct 24, 2003 4:37:11 GMT -5
yep, i read it. It was quite good, not bad. Although it always frustrates me to read booker prize winners because of teh fact that people like China Mieville, Jeff VanderMeer or even Chuck Palahniuk are never going to win it, despite being a lot better than those who do actually win.
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Post by rockhound on Oct 24, 2003 11:43:03 GMT -5
Have to agree there. SF has always gotten a bad rap from the critics. I sometimes think they'd diss Shakespeare if he had written an SF novel... And the TV/Movie awards are no different than the books. When's the last time a non-Lord of the Rings movie won the Best Picture? Or even Writing? They do clean house on SFX though
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Post by Cheryl on Oct 25, 2003 8:09:03 GMT -5
Shakespeare wasn't much into SF, I'm afraid, but he did write some great fantasy. The Tempest. Macbeth. A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Post by misuly on Jul 30, 2005 10:44:37 GMT -5
My SF&F book club read Life of Pi for a book selection. The person who suggested it thought it would be more fantasy than it actually was. It's a mainstream fiction novel, with all that applies. In my opinion, there are few similaities between Life of Pi and The Scar. Literary critics read Life of Pi and loved it. It doesn't have that "embassassing taint" of genre fiction. Bah! There's a commentary about Life of Pi on my book club's webpage for the book members.aol.com/tirfell/martell.htm
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