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BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  1
10-17-2003 09:56 PM ET (US)
In Case You'd Forgotten About Yann Martel...

There's now Life of Pi the movie! (Spoiler alert! The tiger to be voiced by either Sterling Holloway or Paul Winchell...)




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MadeleinePerson was signed in when posted  2
10-18-2003 08:43 AM ET (US)
Oh, great. A dull movie based on a dull book, full of pseudo-philosophical ramblings, one dimensional character(s), and lots of drifting about. Did any of you actually like this book? The story certainly did not make me believe in God, despite what one character promised.

Amidst all the praise, I have found a few reviews that pinpoint some of the problems. Here’s a brief one from BBC.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/reviews/2314089.stm
The Fat Kid  3
10-19-2003 01:34 AM ET (US)
Like it? Did anyone even read it?
Z  4
10-19-2003 02:09 AM ET (US)
Read what?
Madeleine  5
10-19-2003 09:41 PM ET (US)
I thought it would probably be lame, so I just got it out of the library. Stupid Booker winning piece of shit.
BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  6
10-19-2003 09:57 PM ET (US)
Thanks for the link, Madeleine. I keep looking at it thinking, why does the cover look like a cartoon from the 60's? I half expect some weird George Jetson to scoot in.
The Fat Kid  7
10-19-2003 10:13 PM ET (US)
Edited by author 10-19-2003 10:13 PM
...blib blib blib blib blib blib blib blib blib blib blib blib blib blib...

(Jeston spacecar sound effect)
Madeleine  8
10-20-2003 09:29 PM ET (US)
Nothing, alas, quite so cool as the Jetsons. If only...the Bengali Tiger and the Jetson robot maid (what was her name? She's moved onto doing dish detergent ads now) battling it out on the raft.
The Thin Girl  9
10-20-2003 09:58 PM ET (US)
I liked it. So did my mother and my sister-in-law. I tried Martel's first book out at the library. Yuck.
Son of Bry  10
10-20-2003 10:22 PM ET (US)
I enjoyed reading it. Didn't have great expectations. Read it before all of the awards, etc. Nice, simple, pleasant. La, la, la. As Paul McCartney sang: What's wrong with that? "I want to fill the world with silly love songs." (Okay, it can get irritating after a while.... where's my Sex Pistols CD????
BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  11
04-14-2004 09:44 PM ET (US)
"The biggest cities have certain advantages but at one point the hassles start to wear you down and the appeal fades. Factor in the cost of living, the traffic and the general stress of big cities and Saskatoon is really attractive. You don't have to live with those pressures here."

A wise man once said: "Sundown in the Paris of the prairies / Wheat kings have all their treasures buried..." And apparently Yann Martel was listening. (Thanks, Twinks)



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bill traynorPerson was signed in when posted  12
04-16-2004 08:51 AM ET (US)
And if Mr. Martel gets bored, he can always spend his time trolling the Saskatoon city limits for badly beaten Native Canadians that the Saskatoon Police have dropped off and left for dead.
angel o'hehirPerson was signed in when posted  13
04-16-2004 10:19 AM ET (US)
actually bill, this kind of systemic abuse is on view in the whole dominion. no need to single out Saskabush.
bill traynor  14
04-17-2004 09:21 AM ET (US)
Good point.

Although, I scoured the outskirts of Waterloo last night looking to perform a rescue or two and all I found was Jane Urqhart, sitting under an old, rusted bridge waxing poetic about its inherent beauty.

But don't worry! A roving band of discontent, teenage mennonites sneaked up on her as I watched and pushed her into the Nith River.

All is right with the world.
BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  15
06-14-2004 10:34 AM ET (US)
Divided by Pi

Yann on life after the Booker.

"Mountains tend to dwarf you," he said. "They reduce you to insignificance. Prairies elevate you, they heighten your sense of who you are without making you arrogant. And because it's so isolated, because the climate is harsh, you reach out to others. There's a sense of the importance of relationships, which might account for the political history of this province -- we need to help each other, we can't just get by on our own."



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BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  16
10-31-2004 11:21 PM ET (US)
Yann Martel writes music about pianist eaten alive by Indian boy, a Bengal tiger and a cellphone...

Or something to that effect.



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BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  17
11-17-2004 09:39 PM ET (US)
Yann Martel

Lyricist,* Mozart basher.



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Sopwith  18
11-18-2004 01:25 AM ET (US)
I find it more than ironic that a guy who writes a book wherein a boy is trapped on a lifeboat in the middle of an ocean with a zebra, orangutan, hyena and tiger would state the following:

"I often find opera intensely annoying," Martel says. "Mozart's the worst for that -- the stories are just so idiotic."

By the by, I attended the Opera Atelier / Tafelmusik production of Don Giovanni this past week. If you get a chance, you should see it. It's a gorgeous production, and well, it's Mozart.

Oh yeah, there was something else I wanted to say, along the lines of Mr. Martel's animal/ocean theme, something about swine and pearls, but it escapes me.
Name dropping  19
11-18-2004 03:33 AM ET (US)
I haven't read Martel's book and never planned too. However, I feel obliged to state that I find his ‘Mozart’ remark utterly appalling and brutal. As for Don Giovanni, I simply will not finish reading Kierkegaard's Either/Or until I have heard it for myself.
BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  20
01-20-2005 10:42 PM ET (US)
Reporting live, with tiger

Our man The Rake reports on a Yann Martel reading, Stateside.



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BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  21
05-18-2005 07:04 AM ET (US)
You know you've made it when you hit The Onion

Yann Martel distressed by Amazon customers' "also bought" purchases.


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idlereader  22
09-29-2005 03:20 PM ET (US)
never mind yann martel, let's talk about karen connelly's new book The Lizard Cage. why wasn't it on The Giller shortlist? or joseph boyden??
BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  23
10-17-2005 10:15 AM ET (US)
More animals: your chance to be part of the Martel cartel

Can you draw this cute cartoon character? You may have a career in art! But seriously, want to illustrate Yann Martel's The Life of Pi?

"The question is just how will they see it: what colours; what perspectives; what emotional tone? Will the tiger be menacing; will the ocean be threatening; will the island be something out of Frankenstein or will it be an Eden?"

I say, go opulent. That's what the kind of people who will buy an illustrated edition after they've already bought the hardcover will want.


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Jacque Cartier  24
10-17-2005 12:53 PM ET (US)
Is it ok to plagiarize some one else's drawings … or maybe that's a prerequisite.
BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  25
11-08-2005 01:13 PM ET (US)
Edited by author 11-08-2005 02:49 PM
Yann Martel and his novel-in-progress about the Holocaust

This sounds so surreal – Yann Martel reading to conservative Jews in Israel from his new book featuring a donkey and a monkey as stand-ins for the hardworking Jew and the clever Jew.

Martel acknowledges his identity as an outsider in writing about the Holocaust. He is neither Jewish nor has he experienced tragedy. "I'm going in territory emotionally sensitive to Jews," said Martel. "[But] I think it's the role of the artist to put on different costumes and display the results to the reader."

Anyway, "it's the non-Jews who have to know about it," he said. "There's no danger of Jews committing a Holocaust. Barring massacres like Deir Yassin it's mostly non-Jews who have committed massacres." During the 1948 war, Jewish soldiers killed over 100 unarmed Palestinian men, women and children in the village of Deir Yassin on the outskirts of Jerusalem.

Hot water. That's all I can think of to say.

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Benny  27
11-08-2007 03:07 AM ET (US)
Alert for all travellers to North America: Abuse of Human Rights and Privacy Violations:

Racially intolerant white canadian cops and security and their henchmen claim to be

despots; following parasitically in the footsteps of their american counterparts, and

wilfully engage in their racial profiling of non-whites, in racial harassment of

non-whites, and in racially dehumanizing attempts to racially harass non-whites through

intimidating physically, mentally, and spiritually; portraying their racial hatred of

non-whites through causing wilfull and dehumanizing disturbance to non-whites through using

illegal wall-see-through technologies and audio-bugs on non-whites' homes; through

listening and watching through the walls of non-whites' rented and owned homes, and

through their internet and private telephones. The perpetuators of these evil deeds do this

from their cars using illegal equipment slyly given to them by the unworthy cops, and then

accelerating their cars loudly and intimidatingly near non-whites' homes and driving

intimidatingly in presence of non-whites on streets, making threatening u-turns, driving

intimidatingly right up and over sidewalks when a non-white is on the sidewalk, and

throwing their ugly bullying weight around, in their shameless acts of cowardice. It is all

done slyly, supposedly smartly, however, they cannot fool all the people all the time. The

cops also participate themselves to wail their sirens abusively everytime non-whites move

and talk inside their rented and owned homes in daily routine living, in addition to having

their henchmen, and often, using their non-white gutless henchmen in cars, transport,

shopping centers, neighborhoods, etc, to commit these ugly harassing racially profiling

deeds at all times day and night. Using non-whites to engage in racial harassment of other

non-whites is an obnoxiously evil sinister humanely disgraceful intelligent move of the

whites well-known for their ugly divide and rule tactics through their non-white henchmen.

It's a shameful disgrace when the so called protectors of law turn into abusers of law

themselves and throw the weight of their uniforms and law around as cowards. So, they and

their henchmen, appear to be very law respecting on the outside; however, they network

cowardly to commit sly acts of provocation to non-whites all the time, which is supposed to

be legally acceptable. Is watching through walls of non-whites homes, bugging their homes,

working in networking syndicates against them, committing human rights and privacy

violations against them, supposedly lawful for the whites? Who makes those laws that favor

only the whites? The law itself has racism in its clauses. The ugly inner dirt of the

perpetuators of these evil deeds of racism do not deserve to step into religious

institutions for their ugly deeds - such as, if you ain't white, you ain't right? Oh!

Really? Nicely dressed, beautiful people, magnificient concrete jungles, clean roads and

lawns, sweet polite talkers on the outside, full of ugly stench in their souls, that is the

cause of these racist policies that are outrightly biased against non-whites. What a shame!

Most of these ugly acts of dehumanizing racial profiling depict the cowardice of the doers

of these deeds in the real sense, and are done at the behind the scenes insistence of the

racially intolerant white cops through their frontline stooges. However, without physical

evidence, the white cops, security, societies, and their henchmen are laughing sinisterly

at their heinous deeds and the legal system seems to support this evil through its

inability to take action without physical evidence. Their racial profiling penetrates

public transport systems, shops and stores to do all they can to make the non-whites feel

unwelcome in their dehumanizing acts of racial profiling against non-whites and those who

don't conform to their nonsense. The white cops, security, and white communities use their

henchmen who do just as they are told and from behind the safety cushion of their

oil-guzzling, pollution creating, often dark-glassed vehicles to intimidate and harass

non-whites in obnoxious racial profiling that reflects the immoral, despotic, and cowardly

behaviour of racially intolerant white cops, security, communities and their dumb henchmen

who do just as they are told, fuelled as they are in their racial frenzy, thanks to the

racially manipulative corporate controlled media.

For more information, visit:

http://www.yourluckytoday.blogspot.com

Volunteers are welcome to circulate this information to all they know to put an end to this

abuse and violations of human rights committed by immorally misbehaved white cops,

security, white communities, public transports, shops, stores, etc, and their dumb henchmen

who do just as they are told in their racial frenzy.

Save this information on your computers before any cowards remove it from the websites.

Racism is immoral and dehumanizing behaviour that reflects the "incapable to perform

humanely" quality of those who are racist and are being watched from God's court above in

ways they cannot be expected to be capable to perceive yet.

It's a shame when obnoxious stench of racism comes from people in so called rich countries.

It's even more of a shame when words are twisted by media to influence young minds with

lies. It's even more of a shame when so called authorities perpetuate racism and behave

racistly and enforce racist policies and behaviour through intimidating means amidst outer

sweet and polite talks. Racism seems to be prominent among so called white people in rich

countries who cannot bear non-whites from other countries of origin. Planet Earth belongs

to people of Earth. Highly educated people of high intellectual calibres, rich bosses and

CEOs, etc, of rich countries are a blotch on humanity and their material levels when they

haven't yet evolved to basic human concepts of all humans have red blood irrespective of

race.

Racism stems from social attitudes that are perpetuated by racist societies, the media, the

authoritarians, and the peers. It's time to say, shame on all those who perpetuate racism

and racist attitudes.

Thank you.
 
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