Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Intense and interesting. Full of fun facts and quite a lot of humour, but ultimately very dark and quite shocking. I wasn't sure how it would fill 200 pages with one long, mostly uneventful, lifeboat journey, but it did. I was gripped throughout (I suppose it had a tiger as well). The main thing that impressed me was the feat of balancing the tone and fitting humour and optimism into this very dark story. Certainly recommended. Although it didn't make me believe in God as the blurb promised.