I cannot believe this is a work of a beautiful mind. All the while I thought this is a real-life story.

Piscine Molitor is a name of a swimming pool located in France. And so is the first name of the protagonist of the story. A teen, struggled with acceptance from peers, from religious groups, and from Richard Parker.

There were horrid chapters in the novel that gave me the same stigma as with the Lovely Bones. There were moments that I can reflect in terms of exercising faith and ways of loving God. There were chapters that are funny and weird, but all the same I felt the catharsis that we are alpha beings that can intimidate even the biggest Bengal Tiger Pi has ever known.

This is recommended to those who love animals, who had the same peer pressure in their younger years, who have the same struggle with faith, who experienced being stranded in a lifeboat or in life in general - whether you have a Bengal tiger as a pet or not.

Side note: A Movie Adaptation is set to embark on the big screen this December 21,2012 (or January 2013 in Manila).