Watch out, Oprah: this is the Drew Troller Book Club

BUY THIS BOOK.

Seriously. This book is lengthy, at about 400 pages, but the chapters are short and make for an easy read. There's about 100 chapters, so do the math and each chapter's only about 4 pages. You could easily read this in a single weekend, and it's a wonderful book. My synopsis:

Pi Patel is a 16-year-old Indian boy whose family owns a zoo. One day, his dad decides to sell the zoo and move to Canada. So they set out on a huge boat loaded with various zoo animals. The boat sinks in the middle of the Pacific. Pi finds himself stranded on a lifeboat in the middle of nowhere...

Here's the catch: there's also a 450-pound Bengal tiger on board. Pi has to figure out how to survive for a long period of time without his family or any sign of civilization, not to mention figuring out how to keep from becoming the tiger's dinner. He eventually figures out ways to train the tiger to be obedient (it's cool) and survives an astonishing 277 days.

This book has an amazing twist ending which I'll try to avoid spoiling. Buy the book to find out.

Anyway, I'm putting it in this blog because there's a lot of mention of God. In the middle of his terrible journey, Pi actually finds God. (Nevermind that he practices Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity simultaneously). Pi claims that anyone who hears his story will believe in God. I don't know if it's exactly a religious book, but I'd definitely recommend it to any Christian looking for a relatively quick read that entertains and enlightens.