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  • I listened to the audio version of this novel shortly after I finished in paperback. I loved learning the pronunciations of some of the words. It was a wonderful audiobook, although it made me uncomfortable at times becasue of the graphicness of the scenes.

    

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  • This powerful first novel...tells a story of fierce cruelty and fierce yet redeeming love. Both transform the life of Amir, Khaled Hosseini's privileged young narrator, who comes of age during the last peaceful days of the monarchy, just before his country's revolution and its invasion by Russian fo ... Continue

    This powerful first novel...tells a story of fierce cruelty and fierce yet redeeming love. Both transform the life of Amir, Khaled Hosseini's privileged young narrator, who comes of age during the last peaceful days of the monarchy, just before his country's revolution and its invasion by Russian forces. But political events, even as dramatic as the ones that are presented in The Kite Runner, are only a part of this story. In The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini gives us a vivid and engaging story that reminds us how long his people have been struggling to triumph over the forces of violence - forces that continue to threaten them today.

    

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  • Riveting...

  • i haven't read any novels for some time and when i started reading this book, i just couldn't put it down. i was deeply moved by what happened to the characters and the author has an uncanny ability to tell stories in such a way that's incredibly vivid and inviting. Great book, and i can't wait to s ... Continue

    i haven't read any novels for some time and when i started reading this book, i just couldn't put it down. i was deeply moved by what happened to the characters and the author has an uncanny ability to tell stories in such a way that's incredibly vivid and inviting. Great book, and i can't wait to see the movie this Fall.

    

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  • Beautifully written, powerful and compelling throughout, and at times written with such frank brutality some passages will be difficult to get through. But the book had a major flaw for me - the protagonist spends most of the book as weak character and the reader spends most of the book waiting for ... Continue

    Beautifully written, powerful and compelling throughout, and at times written with such frank brutality some passages will be difficult to get through. But the book had a major flaw for me - the protagonist spends most of the book as weak character and the reader spends most of the book waiting for him to "man up." If he had, many of the horrible things that happen in the book could have been avoided completely. And the last 100 pages or so seems to be an unnecessary if-it-can-go-wrong-it-will-go- wrong nightmare. (Which is probably why, after breezing through the book the last bit took me a month and a half to get through.)

    

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  • Intense read.

    

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  • I thought this book seriously had no point at all. I got nothing from it, didn't care about any of the characters, and learning next to nothing about Afghanistan. Really really dull book. I am truly shocked by any good reviews on this book.

    

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• ― Deanna Kyre said on Mar 28, 2008 | Add your feedback

Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father and resolves to win the local kite-fighting toumament, to prove that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan promises to help him? for he always helps Amir? but this is 1970s Afghanistan and Hassan is merely a low-caste servant who is jeered at in the street, although Amir still feels jealous of his natural courage and the place he holds in his father's heart. But neither of the boys could foresee what would happen to Hassan on the afternoon of the tournament, which was to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return, to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.

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