I just finished reading the kite runner and I think it might just be one of the best books I have read. The way the characters were portrayed, the descriptions- short yet vivid, and to be able to imagine something I had no proper information on(am talking about Afghanistan’s history) was truly exhilarating. I have searched for books which can capture my attention, and be able to have the ability to keep me motivated enough to finish the whole book. This book has been able to do exactly that. Kept me on the edge of my seat, as I turned every page, nearing the end of the book. Along with being relevant this was truly something. To be able to interwine fact and fiction so gracefully, is exactly what I wanted.
What about you guys? Have you guys read The kite runner? If so how did you find it? … ngl the movie did not do justice to the original book that’s for sure.
Khaled Hosseini is no doubt a great writer, but I ended up disliking this book. It went from a tale of friendship and betrayal to really just being poverty and terror porn. The bad guys are bad. Not just a Taliban, the bad guy also admires Hitler, because he’s half German and one dimensionally evil. There’s no historical discussion of how Afghanistan came to be. There’s no understanding of the complexity that exists in quagmire situations. It’s just simple characters in a war torn land, and wouldn’t be half as popular but for the fact that NATO was currently at war in Afghanistan at the time.