The Kite Runner
Product Details | Similar Products | Customer Reviews | Author: Khaled Hosseini List Price: £7.99 Our Price: £4.58 You Save: £3.41 (43%) Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours  |
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 | Product Details: Paperback 352 pages Release Date: 17 December 2007 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC ISBN: 0747594880 Rating:   Sales Rank: 730 | | Look for similar books by subject:
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| | Customer Reviews: what an amazing tale... (15 November 2008)I instantly fell in love with the characters and was deeply moved by the story. I usually read on the train and did not expect to cry my eyes out with this one; but I did. A tear jerker (14 November 2008)A very emotionally charged book. Enjoyed and hated at the same time. Well worth a read Run and get the Kite! (06 November 2008)Here's a book everyone should read. No exception. Please do so. I was totally taken by this book, cried a couple of times whilst reading it and even sometime after i had finished it i still remembered the characters so well. Haunting but oh so worth it! A must have in you own private collection of books, even if its a small one. I have also read 1000 splendid suns. top book too! waiting for Khaled's next book... please hurry!!! Boring US part of the book (23 October 2008)Good, exciting first half of the book. The plot disappoints around the time Baba dies. Surely there's more to come, but I'm afraid I'm not going to plough through the poorly edited middle of the book to get to the better end I'm afraid. Quite disappointed overall. Why is this book so popular? A Puzzling Oddity (19 October 2008)It's hard to imagine how someone could call saccharine a book that contains genocide, adultery, pedophilia, rape, and any number of other atrocities, but there you have it, if this book has one quality it is its ability to somehow render all of these actions in a sentimental light. It is an amazing feat, if albeit an unintentional one. From the get-go this book had rubbed me the wrong way for some reason I couldn't quite place. I'm not squeamish, I don't flinch from gritty renditions, I enjoy having my boundaries of belief, outrage and moral standing pushed to the edges if for no other reason than to see where I stand with myself, but this book didn't do it. I'd turn every page not sure of why I had this uneasy feeling that everything was too sweet. In the end, I think it comes from the over-riding feeling (spoiler alert) that no matter what, everything will be all right in the end. It doesn't matter than someone gets raped, that a boy loses his family, that a race gets massacred, because this ham-fisted novel has assured us that all of these events are only there for no other reason than to aid the main character in finding redemption. The book is most comfortable when it is taking its sentimental journey through Afghanistan of the 1970s, both lamenting and rejoicing a lost youth, something anyone lucky enough to have experienced a childhood will identify with. Its when the plot ramps into gear that the book rapidly finds itself out of its depth, struggling to cope with the severity of the situations it wishes to deal with. | |
