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Cecilia Elena posted a review at .
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I read the whole thing, didn't really like it. Perhaps it's the subject, or the events that happened in the book but at the end of the day I felt extremely depressed and I try to read to distract myself rather than torment myself.
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Cecilia Elena posted a review at .
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Didn't really like this book. It is well written but the plot does not interest me at all.
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Divya Nithin :) posted a review at .
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very emotional and touching story
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Ted posted a review at .
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Set in Kabul in 1975 and in California, Pakistan and Afghanistan twenty years later, THE KITE RUNNER is the story of boyhood friends Amir and Hassan who have a falling out after the terrible events of the day Amir wins the coveted kite flying contest and Hassan volunteers to retrieve it for him. It is a story filled with secrets and well-developed characters set against the backdrop of the rise of the Taliban and its brutal regime. It is about deception and redemption and the ways a young man from a conservative Muslim world becomes a man on his own terms. It made me instantly go out and get A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS.
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Kathleen posted a review at .
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This story is a poignant illustration of what fear does to our ability to act in a compassionate manner.
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Jennifer posted a review at .
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Reviewed by Steph for TeensReadToo.com THE KITE RUNNER is a beautiful story written by Khaled Hosseini (not to mention the first Afghan book to be written in English). The novel follows Amir , a boy living in Afghanistan with his father, Baba. The two have been living by themselves since Amir's mother died during childbirth. Well, not really alone. The servant, Ali, and his son, Hassan, live in a hut in the backyard. While they may be servants, Baba looks to them as family. Hassan and Amir grow up together and became friends. As a child, Amir was always troubled. He felt that he didn't have his father's love, so he was constantly trying to win that love. Amir easily got jealous of Hassan, because Amir felt his father loved Hassan more, since Hassan was such a great athlete and such an honest person. But one day Amir witnesses an injustice done to Hassan, and although Amir could've stopped it from happening, he didn't. Shortly afterwards Ali and Hassan leave, even though Baba pleads for them to stay. Amir watches as Hassan and Ali climb into their Mercedes and drive off, never to be seen by them again. Soon after that, Amir and Baba escape to the United States to get away from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. There, Amir graduated high school and went to junior college to become a writer. Amir ended up marrying a nice, pretty woman named Soraya. Shortly after the wedding, Baba dies of cancer. Amir is even more depressed when Soraya and he find out that they can't conceive a child. Amir and Soraya keep on living life and the years passed. They led normal lives; he as a writer she as a teacher. They lived in a comfortable house with a dog. But one day, Amir's past caught up to him. He received a phone call from an old family friend, Rahim Khan, asking Amir to come to Pakistan. Amir arrives in Pakistan to see his old friend close to death. But that's not why Khan asked Amir to come. The fact is that Hassan was killed by the Taliban a few months ago, along with his wife. The two left behind their son, Sohrab, who is living in an Afghan orphanage. Khan asks Amir to go find the boy and bring him back to Pakistan so he can live with a nice couple and get away from all of the death and destruction the Taliban has created in Afghanistan. Amir decides he will go find the son of his late best friend. Only after saving this boy from all the evil in Afghanistan will Amir be saved from the sin he committed so long ago as a child. This riveting and emotional story catches the readers from page one until the ending. The readers learn about the important history of Afghanistan and the impact of those events on its people. Hosseini wrote a true masterpiece in this novel. It is sure to please all who read it.
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Christina posted a review at .
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This was a powerful and moving portrait of life in Afghanastan during its golden period of the 1970s and modern day. Hosseini writes his characters so richly that their struggles are universal but also never lets the reader forget their culture and social obligations.
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A reader posted a review at .
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I had a hard time putting this book down. The author really gives the reader an inside look at another culture.
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Jen posted a review at .
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This book is amazing. I read it at the suggestion of a friend and was so glad I did. It was heartbreaking yet so uplifting. I saw the movie a few years after I read the book, and although I liked that too, the book is so much better. In the book, Hosseini goes into greater detail about: what life was like for these boys growing up in Kabul, Afghani customs/traditions and the importance of honor and loyalty. Fantastic read!
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