Life of Pi Secion 1

I tend to judge a book by it's cover and the cover of this book looked pretty interesting but I wasnt really expecing what I read. It's okay I guess. There are just a bunch of random things going on and it got kind of boring in some parts. I learned about the three toed sloth. I always thought sloth's would have really good hearing or something but I guess they're just as worthless as they appear. Well I guess its a good thing that his uncle is teaching him to swim since obviously at one point in the book he's going to be stuck on a boat with a tiger in the middle of the ocean. I'm intersted to know where all this background information is going to come into play. I'm hoping I didn't read it for nothing, because it was a bit dull. Personally, I liked the Color of Water better than this book so far.