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 enlarge | Author: Khaled Hosseini
Publisher: audible.com
Category: Book
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ASIN: B000R51QY2
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 enlightened November 1, 2008
This book was fabulous! I had all sorts of different emotions along the way. It is amazing how different it is in foreign countries. We truly are lucky to be Americans!
 Good insight into the history of Afganastan through women's eyes October 30, 2008
I read this for bookclub and really enjoyed it. The glimpse into these women's lives was both fascinating and difficult. While I felt I know a lot of the facts about women in Afghanistan, I now feel I have a better understanding of them.
 A Bit of a Disappointment October 29, 2008
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The Kite Runner is a once in a lifetime novel that touches both your heart and soul. Hosseini's follow-up, A Thousand Splendid Sun, was a bit of a disappointment to me. Although the novel offers much that is interesting, it never seems to reach its full potential.
The book is separated in three acts. In the first, a young woman sees her mother die. Her father has disowned her so she is sent off to marry a much older man in the hopes that she will provide him with a son, a thing she is never able to do. In the second act, a young girl is trapped in Kabul during the war. Although she grows up happy, the war destroys her existence and soon, she also finds himself married to the older man in order to try and provide him with a son. In the final act, both women try to run away from their problems, from their abusive husband and from the horrors of the war.
I loved the sections of the book that described a world I'm not familiar with. The country's customs, the way these characters act and think were all very different to me. But I couldn't relate to any of these characters. None are likeable. I wish I could have cared more about the two heroines. Instead, I never really did.
I think the book also suffers from the fact that it was written in three parts. During most of the second part, the entire first act is forgotten, only to be brought back in the third. I wanted to go back to the earlier character. Intermittent chapters like in the third section should have been the rule of the game for the entire book.
It's not that Hosseini has written a bad book. It's just that this one is a lot like other stories of this kind we've seen before. And the moment something becomes interesting, the author skips to something different. This doesn't create suspense, but it does annoy the reader somewhat. Maybe I was expecting too much out of this novel.
A very powerful book October 24, 2008
A very sad tale of those who were left-out in post-Soviet, war-wretched Afghanistan. I haven't read the "Kite Runner" but saw the movie and was quite disappointed with the quality of production. I hope that they do justice to the 2nd book if ever a movie is made on it.
I am thankful to be an American female October 22, 2008
This book makes all women appreciate having the fortune of being born in America rather than the middle east. These were incredible women who had amazing survival skills. This is from the female perspective and the Kite Runner is from the male perspective of growing up in the middle east.
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