Life of Pi

Can't recommend this book enough. Just finished tonight.
It is original. I've never read anything like it. It's very thought provoking about God, and reality. The author has a great style that I love and almost every few pages there are a few sentences that are so profoundly deep that I could chew on their meaning for days. Here are a few as examples:
"I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both."
"We are all born like Catholics, aren't we- in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?"
in speaking of agnostism: " To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."

Just lots of great thought in this book, and now that the ending has been revealed to me, I am full of even more thought. The end makes me go back mentally through the book and see things even differently.

The basic premise? An Indian boy age 16 survives a sinking ship and the pacific for 7 months in a lifeboat with several animals (they were being transported on the ship as well by his father a zookeeper.) Though really it is much more than that.