An intense look into the life of an Afghani boy as his life is twisted in many different directions including being torn from his homeland and sent to America along with his journey back to his home. I read this book in a literature class at my college and the discussions that were had throughout th...
Review I finished this book just in time for the interview and book signing with Khaled Hosseini in Chapel Hill (the interview was amazing; check out more details below!). This book is eye opening to what it was like to live in Afghanistan during the reign of the Taliban. I never imagined growing...
Back in 2008, when I read this book, I wrote: (please forgive me my bad English from when I was fourteen) I liked reading The Kite Runner. It's about a world I didn't know much about earlier. When I read this, I found out all kinds of new things, which made me understand some things I heard better...
bookshelves: published-2002, re-visit-2014, radio-4x, paper-read, lit-richer, lifestyles-deathstyles, afghanistan, contemporary Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from January 01, 2003 to February 15, 2014, read count: 2 Re-visit via R4xKulvinder Ghir reads Khaled Hosseini's 2003 internat...
I haven't had a visceral reaction to many books since I was a kid and my emotions controlled me rather than the opposite. But sometimes the writer takes me by the hand and pulls me right through the looking glass, and this was one of those times. A deep betrayal compounded by an even deeper one that...
Gosh. Where do I start? With the synopsis, I suppose. So, The Kite Runner is about a couple of boys who grow up together in 1970s Afghanistan. One of them does an awful thing and spends the rest of his life atoning for it. (Yes, I am reminded of Atonement.) It's written in the first person, which...
The story is almost tolerable in this abbreviated state, but just almost. The two star rating is to acknowledge the artist, otherwise it would be one star like its novel counterpart.Nevermind, I can't do it...this gets one star too. I think raising it to two stars would take a lot more than some pre...
I recently read A Thousand Splendid Suns and was surprised by the well-written, heartbreaking tale that Hosseini wrote. I was therefore looking forward to The Kite Runner. Turns out, had I read The Kite Runner first, I never would have even bothered with A Thousand Splendid Suns. The Kite Runner is ...
This story is told by Amir, who at the start is a young boy coming of age in an Afghanistan falling apart, and primarily dealing with his friendship with Hassan, the "kite runner" of the title. Taking us from the 1970s to March of 2002, this riveted me from the first page. The style is elegant and c...
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