Life of Pi is also not my fav book. I thought it wasn't really interesting before he got on the boat. In the meanwhile, I read
Donna Tartt - The little friend
George Orwell - 1984
Aldous Huxley - Brave new world
Philip K. Dick - Paycheck and 11 other short stories
and I started
Stephen Hawking - A brief history of time
I bought some more books, which I will read later:
Chuck Palahniuk - Haunted
George Orwell - Animal Farm
I forgot name - Man modified (about medical modifications to the human body, from 1969

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And some kind of biography and comparison between Hitler & Stalin