day one hundred and forty-nine

quick update entry: i finished life of pi, recommended (and gifted) to me by my good friend kristen (#7). and i loved the story - shipwreck, survival, just enough gore to pique my interest without giving me bad dreams. with a lot of books i have to set a goal to reach a certain page number before giving up in favor of doing something else, but i would guess that i happily finished this one in five or six sittings. and the author, yann martel, had me up until the last two chapters. i mean, i was in it. but then he pulled a shyamalan on me! AND made me feel like a jerk for favoring science over faith. truly, i dug the twist. but part of me wants to get together with a group of folks who have read this and talk about what pi's message about god meant to them. never before has my experience and understanding of a story hinged so fundamentally on one sentence.