Mason Clark Clark থেকে Houston, TX, USA
Very entertaining. A great story. This is a story about religion and fiction. When Pi tells the investigators an alternate version of the story that they can accept, he a proving the point that religion and fiction serve the same purpose. People would rather have a false religion that they are comfortable with and that is easy to believe than have a true religion that is hard to follow. People would rather make up their own version of the truth that doesn't stretch their minds or beliefs. Having said that, it is a little ironic that the Pi himself has made up his own Christian/Muslim/Hindu hybrid religion. As he has the discussion with his parents, he comes of as being a young sage who has it figured out, while the adults in his life are ignorant. In the end he wants the reader to believe his version of the truth, that the three religions are compatible, rather that have an normal religion, one that "reasonable" people would accept. Is Pi doing the very thing he is condemning when he makes up his own religion, his own version of the truth?
Azazel is a wonderful read. Typical Asimov. Not perhaps his very best, but really, really good!