It's a very good book though, I just wasn't expecting that. As you probably have noticed he starts very early on to build up to what causes the rift between the two friends so I was prepared in a way but not for that.
I'm so far finding it hard to sympathise with the main character but then again it is probably hard for us (well, me at least) to understand the kind of class divide they had (have?) in Afghanistan.
I'll be interested to hear what you think of it when you're done.
It's a very good book, I really recommend it, but it's heartbreaking, again and again. There are just some things I have trouble reading, especially involving children, and I hadn't braced myself for it this time. Still, like I said, a great book, a wonderful book, not just as a novel but educational as well about a culture I knew nothing about.
Oh god. I was reading it and I had to stop. I was just so affected by it. Then, I picked it up again and finished it. I bought "A Thousand Splendid Suns" this weekend.
Kite Runner has been made into a movie. It's coming out in November. I don't know if I can watch it. The book nearly killed me.
I knew it had to be something traumatic and had decided I would let it wait until the next day, not wanting to go to bed with disturbing images in my head. But of course I didn't stop and once I had read that part I had to read on because there was no way I could close my eyes and fall asleep. So I ended up reading for another hour, not falling asleep until around 2:30 in the morning.
I just finished the book and I admit I cried while reading the last chapters. That poor poor boy. *sobs*
I'm not sure I can watch it either. I should but I don't think I can.
I need to get my hands on A Thousand Splendid Suns. The Kite Runner was translated into Icelandic but frankly I'd rather read in English.
I cried throughout. For some reason I thought it was an autobiography, and I just couldn't stand the thought that such horrible things had happened to real people. That's why I put it aside. Then, I looked at it realized it was fiction. Still, if you think about it, I'm sure much worse things have happened and continue to happen to people all over the world all the time. It's horrifying to imagine.
Did the protagonist ever redeem himself in your eyes. I was so angry with his inaction, and subsequent actions, but then I had to remind myself that he was a child. Still, it was horrible. The monstrous character in the book, the Hitler fan, is the scariest fictional character I have ever encountered. I don't think I've ever read or will ever read a more monstrous picture of evil.
I have about 25 books to read, so I haven't started his second one.
Can't you order it from Amazon's US site? Or does it cost too much? I really don't understand how all that works.
It does read very much like an autobiography, I actually checked that too. But it doesn't really matter, it could just as well be, things like that happen all the time all over the world and I think he gave a chilling insight into what it's like.
I don't think I ever really forgave him. Yes, he was a child so I can forgive him for being scared and for mostly everything else that happened at the time. However I have a very hard time forgiving him how he handled it after, when he was grown up. Like, up until the moment they found out there was no American couple to take the boy, he was going to leave him with them, perfect strangers. Despite everything.
I can probably get it in the bookshop. I was just musing to myself because The Kite Runner belongs to the library and I was wondering if we could buy the English version or should rather wait for the translation so we have them both in Icelandic. *ponders*
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I'm so far finding it hard to sympathise with the main character but then again it is probably hard for us (well, me at least) to understand the kind of class divide they had (have?) in Afghanistan.
I'll be interested to hear what you think of it when you're done.
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Kite Runner has been made into a movie. It's coming out in November. I don't know if I can watch it. The book nearly killed me.
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I just finished the book and I admit I cried while reading the last chapters. That poor poor boy. *sobs*
I'm not sure I can watch it either. I should but I don't think I can.
I need to get my hands on A Thousand Splendid Suns. The Kite Runner was translated into Icelandic but frankly I'd rather read in English.
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Did the protagonist ever redeem himself in your eyes. I was so angry with his inaction, and subsequent actions, but then I had to remind myself that he was a child. Still, it was horrible. The monstrous character in the book, the Hitler fan, is the scariest fictional character I have ever encountered. I don't think I've ever read or will ever read a more monstrous picture of evil.
I have about 25 books to read, so I haven't started his second one.
Can't you order it from Amazon's US site? Or does it cost too much? I really don't understand how all that works.
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I don't think I ever really forgave him. Yes, he was a child so I can forgive him for being scared and for mostly everything else that happened at the time. However I have a very hard time forgiving him how he handled it after, when he was grown up. Like, up until the moment they found out there was no American couple to take the boy, he was going to leave him with them, perfect strangers. Despite everything.
I can probably get it in the bookshop. I was just musing to myself because The Kite Runner belongs to the library and I was wondering if we could buy the English version or should rather wait for the translation so we have them both in Icelandic. *ponders*
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