Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I read the reviews on Amazon, so it was with great anticipation that I started this book. The beginning is quite tantalizing, background on the teenage Pi, and his exploration of 3 major religions, his family's adventure to move to Canada via a steamer. What a great set-up! However, once the teen leaves India, in my opinion, the book slows down and bogs down into minutia that seems to have little to do with moving the plot along. How many ways can you describe how to kill fish? You will discover it in this book. I felt bludgeoned by the author in all the grisly details of killing and death over and over again. There were a several leaps of faith required by the reader to follow the plot. The greatest leap of faith I could not make was the book's promise, "You will believe in God": I didn't. I felt as though it was a bad remake of the Old Man and the Sea with more grisly elements of Lord of the Flies. I had mentioned I read the book, (without saying my opinion of the book), I was surprised by the the comments I have had from my own circle of book lover friends and co-workers: "...book was so boring I couldn't finish it...", "...I just lost interest and couldn't finish it...", "...book was disappointing...". I have yet to find a single person, outside the reviewers here that actually have anything positive to say about it. My apologies to the author, I really really wanted to like this book, but just couldn't.