so i did some poking around last night at amazon's website and actually came to a review of the book. it looks like that our little hero pi will be stuck on this little barge with a dead crippled zebra, a beheaded orangutan and a hyena.

its quite interesting still. i usually get bored halfway through the book when there are lots of internal struggle. i'm a typical guy when it comes to books. i like large explosions and big aliens. which is why ender's game was such a great book, but the latter books of the series seems to drag for me. thats a totally different story.