My friend raved about "A Thousand Splendid Suns" and lent me her book and I was so underwhelmed by it. It was so badly written and just plain clumsy in places. I didn't have the heart to tell her I hated it. And the plot twists I could spot a mile off. And it just dragged in places.
The story could have been so much juicier with the whole two wives plotting against the husband. He had a good idea on his hands and wasted it.
In one scene, the characters visit the Buddhist statues at Bamiyan. This would be equivalent to having fictional characters visit the World Trade Center in some year prior to 2001. Because everyone and their cat knows what happened to those statues.
I thought he had a lot of good ideas that he just didn't do anything with. And it may have just been an issue of getting a book written and put out as fast as possible, considering the things going down in the real world. Honestly, if this were something sold purely to raise funds for refugees, I would have kindly shut my fucking hole.
"Major eye-roll at that one, lol."
And a headdesk when the characters watch the WTC collapse on TV.
I can't imagine ever reading this because of my disdain for The Kite Runner, but a lot of what you said here applies to it as well. I was sort of into The Kite Runner for awhile, but eventually it became completely ludicrous and I was forced to call "bullshit" on the book.
I was sort of into it in the beginning. The Kite Runner had enough going for it in the first half of the book that I was able to overlook the things that I didn't like in the writing style.
But man. Then I got to part two. There are so many things that should not happen outside of cheesy action movies.
I'm debating whether or not to see the film adaptation.
I havent read the books (but they re on my shelf and on my to-read-list so this review was a bit... uh... not making me look forward to it, but maybe its still a nice change from all the heavy reading) but I really liked the film adaption of The Kite Runner. Although mostly the first part....
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My friend raved about "A Thousand Splendid Suns" and lent me her book and I was so underwhelmed by it. It was so badly written and just plain clumsy in places. I didn't have the heart to tell her I hated it. And the plot twists I could spot a mile off. And it just dragged in places.
The story could have been so much juicier with the whole two wives plotting against the husband. He had a good idea on his hands and wasted it.
In one scene, the characters visit the Buddhist statues at Bamiyan. This would be equivalent to having fictional characters visit the World Trade Center in some year prior to 2001. Because everyone and their cat knows what happened to those statues.
Major eye-roll at that one, lol.
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"Major eye-roll at that one, lol."
And a headdesk when the characters watch the WTC collapse on TV.
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But man. Then I got to part two. There are so many things that should not happen outside of cheesy action movies.
I'm debating whether or not to see the film adaptation.
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