Life of Pi tranquilizer darts while her cub escapes hiding in a bush. Parker names the cub Thirsty after his enthusiasm when drinking from a nearby river. The paperwork that accompanies the shipment of the two tigers to Pi's family's zoo in Pondicherry states that the cub's name is "Richard Parker" and the hunter's given name is "Thirsty" and his surname is "None Given", due to a mix-up with the names. Pi's father finds the story so amusing that they continue to call the tiger "Richard Parker". Brian Bethune of "Maclean's" describes "Life of Pi" as a "head-scratching combination of dense religious allegory,
The Bottom of the Bottle (novel) The Bottom of the Bottle (novel) The Bottom of the Bottle is a novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. The original French version "Le Fond de la Bouteille", written in 1948 when Simenon was living in Arizona, appeared in 1949. The novel is among his "romans durs", a term roughly translated as hard, or harrowing, novels; it was used by Simenon for what he regarded as his serious literary works. The story is set in Arizona near the Mexican border: a rancher's life is disrupted by the appearance of his brother, who has escaped from jail and is determined