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... look any further. I just have to get The 39 Steps by John Buchan. Sounds real good. From my library I recomment The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Earlier this week, I finished "A Thousand Splendid Sons", the second novel by Khaled Hosseini ...a worthy follow-up to "The Kite Runner". I look forward to future novels from this author. I'm currently reading "Whisper to the Blood" by Danna Stabenow...#16 in her 'Kate Shigak' series. #1 ...

62. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner is the story of Ali, how his actions as a child growing up in Afghanistan before the Taliban took over shaped not only his life, but the life of his childhood friend Hassan. Having grown up together they were best friends, they were ...

I'm also not a fan of The Kite Runner but I did like The Book Thief. It's been a while since I read Hosseini's book but I remember really disliking the later part of the book.

... 9. 10. Possibilities: Doktor Glas by Hjalmer Söderberg (Sweden) Gregorious by Bengt Ohlsson (Sweden) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan) Broken April by Ismail Kadere (Albania) Chowringhee by Sankar (India) Heliopolis by James Scudamore ...

... to second all the appreciation of authors — I think Khaled Hosseini was the one cited, though I didn't hear him read The Kite Runner — who give you vital pronunciations of their non-English settings, and especially the late Frank McCourt, who, though it's all English, certainly ...

Started "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Kahled Hosseini ("The Kite Runner") yesterday.

j'ai un peu de mal à te répondre parce que ça fait qq temps déjà que j'ai lu les cerfs-volants de Kaboul, il y a probablement une distance un peu plus grande avec les personnages, ne serait-ce que parce qu'il s'agit ici de femmes mais c'est un livre que je recommande sans hésiter. Des écriv ...

I really liked The Kite Runner, but I've had that experience with other books and I think it's so important to still tell people what you think and not be intimidated by all the raves.

I really, really, really disliked The Kite Runner. And then I read an article about him getting up at 5am to write it before going off to the hospital to make people better with his doctoring, and I felt really guilty. But it's still a bad book. I finally managed to swap mine this week (for a ...

110 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini I don't want to be controversial but this book took me nearly 2 weeks to read and I didn't really like it. And I'm definitely not convinced it's great literature. Wasn't terrible, it just didn't do anything for me. I thought A Thousand Splendid Suns ...

Après le bouleversant Les Cerfs-Volants de Kaboul, et le monde des hommes, avec Mille soleils splendideson est en Afghanistan, la fin des soviétiques, les talibans, le 11 septembre, les américains, l'espoir ... l'histoire de deux femmes sur une vingtaine d'années, leur désespoir, leur ...

Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over the Edge by Edward Regis The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

... say it made me too happy. It's kind of heart-warming in a depressing way, if that makes any sense at all! Haven't read The Kite Runner so can't compare, but this was extremely well written. 106 Persuasion by Jane Austen My third Austen, and possibly my favourite. Excellent stuff.

... by Jennifer Lee Carrell (a Shakespeare mystery, looks interesting) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (I have The Kite Runner already so I'm excited about this one!) Miles From Nowhere by Nami Mun (my Postcolonial Lit class is broadening my interests) The Lynne Truss Treasury ...

OK, that list was way too long! I've deleted it. If anyone wants the alphabetized list, tell me and I'll send it to you.

43/50 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini I've seen the movie, and the movie follows the book almost exactly, so I wasn't surprised plot-wise except for the bit between getting Sohrab and returning to America. Man, I wasn't expecting that. They cut that out of the movie entirely. What ...

... and Generals Jeff Shaara Rashi's Daughter Book I Joheved Maggie Anton Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte The Kite Runner Khaled Hasseine Travels with Charlie John Steinbeck. I have read too many good books this quarter. Really hard to decide.

... Alison Ashley by Robin Klein I. The Innocent by Ian McEwan J. The Journey Home by Olaf Olaffson K. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini L. Love and the Platypus by Nicholas Drayson M. Mudbound by Hillary Jordan N. The Nanny Diaries by McLaughlin & Kra ...

I managed to struggle through The Kite Runner, but failed to understand what was so special about the book. Gave up on The Historian when I realised it was about Dracula! Both of these, however, are surpassed by The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell which is a most disgusting piece of ...

#78 I got about 1/3 of the way through The Kite Runner, figured out the "twist" and jumped ahead to see if I was right. It was so obvious, at least to me, that I had no interest in finishing it once I had confirmed it. I agree that as travelogue, it wasn't doing it either. I did find the kite ...

... but have not read) 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (own but have not read) 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (own but have not read) 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 ...

My short list for best books ever: The Kite Runner A Thousand Splendid Suns A Tree Grows In Brooklyn Shadow of the Wind Labor Day I"m sure there are others that just slipped my mind for now.

... class in Oct.) #58. "A Thousand Splendid Suns", by Khaled Hosseni in waiting on my TBR bookshelf. I enjoyed his "The Kite Runner" when I read it in 2008, so glad to know that you enjoyed "A Thousand Splendie Suns".

... 1. Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron 2. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides ***** 10/29/09 3. Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 4. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 5. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 6. Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond 7. Islan ...

I snuck into DeltaQueen50's library and stole The Kite Runner since so many people told me I should read it.

... is the same horrific experience for everyone, regardless of what "side" you are on. A Thousand Splendid Suns is, like The Kite Runner, a bit too predictable for me, but I know a lot more about Afghanistan after reading it. Same with The White Tiger - it wasn't my favourite book, ...

... just as disturbed that everyone loves it so. If you want a recent read that's Also popular and well-written, I'd suggest The Kite Runner.

37: Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner

Ah, I haven't read Jackaroo, but when I was growing up, I loved all the Tillerman books, particularly The Runner - have you read any of them?

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Challenge dates: October 1, 2009 - October 1, 2010 Here are my categories and some preliminary titles for 2010. Might as well really ...

Sounds like Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner although I've never read it in English so might be wrong.

Finished "Runner" by Thomas Perry...a good read!! Started "Buckingham Palace Gardens" (#23 Thomas/Charlotte Pitt) by Anne Perry (no relation to Thomas Perry as far as I know). #121 DeltaQueen50 I read "Careless in Red" earlier this summer...enjoyed the story and the setting :))

I just about finished with "Runner" by Thomas Perry....anxious to see how it ends. #44 PaperbackPirate, I'm planning to see the movie "The Time Traveller's Wife" next week. I bought "Peter & the Starcatchers" for my grandaughter...I'll have to borrow it back from her to read sometime. I ...

... The almost moon. Also The book thief, I was in awe after having read that. Just breathtaking, really. If you liked The kite runner, then I can recommend The septembers of Shiraz. A good read. Something else I can recommend, are the books by Alexander McCall Smith. He has some really ...

Started "Runner" by Thomas Perry, his latest 'Jane Whitefield'...very good so far. Also still reading "The Cat Who Wasn't a Dog".

... Shadow of the Wind and the various Swedish crime novels, and novels from faraway countries which are not translated like The Kite Runner and Half of a Yellow Sun help to 'normalize' translations and open readers up to reading books like Out Stealing Horses or This Blinding Absence of Ligh ...

... I've just finished Blood of Flowers which reminded me a bit of The Lady and the unicorn and was as riviting a read as The Kite Runner. I haven't come across A Fatal Grace as yet. Did you enjoy it?

Begrudgingly finished The Kite Runner. I had a bad feeling from the start, as on the front cover there is a quote from Isabel Allende- I couldn't manage to finish her The House of the Spirits. Amir was such a nothingness of a character. Towards the end when he starts to curse it ...

I gave up on Kite Runner the other day. Sure, it's a well-written book. But it's not informative - I learnt nothing of Afghanistan or Islam - nor did I find the novel entertaining. If I don't get either of those, I find it hard to see the point in continuing to read.

... y >"We Shall Not Sleep" by Anne Perry >"Death Song" by Michael McGarrity >"Friend of the Devil" by Peter Robinson >"Runner" by Thomas Perry >"The Cat Who Wasn't A Dog" by Marian Babson >"Please Do Feed the Cat" by Marian Babson

Started to read The Kite Runner, as one of Babbling Books previous reads: http://onlinebookclub.myfreeforum.org/about418.html however it's not really grabbing me but I'll stick with it for the time being. E.g. When Amir is in the market talking to Soraya, I wish that he'd just get on with ...

I would recommend Salt by Mark Kurlansky at a different way of seeing history and how unlikely things affect it. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini for a look at another society to learn about redemption A River Runs through It by Norman Maclean because it's great I second Animal Farm. It ...

... t 1. The Alchemist by Coelho 2. Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut 3. The Handmaiden's Tale by Abbott 4. The Kite Runner by Hosseini 5. Middlesex by Eugenides 6. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 7. 8. 9. V. Fantasy/sci-fi 1. Running ...

I love the books you've been reading! I enjoyed The Kite Runner, The God of the Small Things and Waiting I still need to read Reading Lolita in Tehran, The Pilot's Wife and Life of Pi. There are many books on your list which I have not heard of... I might have to check out ...

... I have too many.. I have all the Marian Keyes books which I really enjoy but my absolute favorite would have to be The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

... so far this year: Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Gilead by ...

... good enough that I kept going. 4. Marley and Me by John Grogan 5. Ocean Star by Christina Dimari March 6. Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 7. Salem's Lot by Stephen King April 8. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 9. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 10 ...

Catgwinn's 6 Degrees Read in the last few months: 1. The Kite Runner (Culture/Troubles in Afhanistan & Pakistan) 2. Three Cups of Tea ( Culture/Troubles in Pakistan & Afganistan) 3. Reading Lolita in Tehran (Culture/Troubles in Iran, plus "Portrait of a Lady" was one of the books ...

... all the three books in the Neuromancer trilogy, which I should get onto reading soon, for the group read. I've also got The Kite Runner to read for a real-life group read.

... in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Life of Pi by Yann Martel Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Geek Love by Katherine Dunn The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky ...

I finished The Kite Runner last night and it is a great book. -------SPOILER---------- I liked the ending. I was worried that it would be either incredibly sad or a schmaltzy ending that didn't fit with the rest of the book. I found the ending hopeful, and it made me smile and feel that ...

War and Peace has taken a back seat this week to The Kite Runner. The Kite Runner is for book club, so I have to read it quite quickly so I can pass it on to the next person. I'm not sure if enjoying is the right word for it, it's a good book, but heavy. It's reduced me to tears several times, ...

... Prize or books that actually won. I feel like I'm finally getting to some of the books that many have raved about - The Kite Runner and, now, The Poisonwood Bible.

Regarding The Kite Runner, I remember hearing about people in Kabul flying kites after the Taliban were kicked out and not understanding the significance of it. The Kite Runner made everything clear. #229 coloradogirl14 seemed to jump off my bookshelf into my hand That ...

... It's the less-well-know, and the non-English books that suffer (with the exception of crossover pop sensations like the Kite-Runner and other volumes people read to assuage their liberal white guilt). But public programming costs money and time -- unless volunteers can be put on board to ...

... Eye of the Needle are top-notch thrillers. I'm a fan of A Thousand Splendid Suns and I highly recommend it. I agree The Kite Runner has the better story but there is a rich beauty to the follow-up that I really admired. I hope Hosseini will be around a long time!

... I wondered what in the world Hosseini was going to come up with to top his first novel. Just to write a second book after The Kite Runner's success must have been quite an intimidating proposition.

220/221 - I think Kite Runner was the better novel by far. I think Hosseini was able to bring in his own experiences into it, both in pre-1978 Afghanistan and as an American immigrant; and that gave the story some authenticity. He spent a lot of time in Afghanistan as a child and had some kind of ...

I finished reading The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. That was such a rich read. It occasionally felt like I was reading a biography. I felt like I had dipped into some truly authentic Afghan culture (not like I would know the difference). I've had the book for about 2 years but I thought ...

... list, I got California uncovered : stories for the 21st century by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2005), and then the Kite Runner editions. CLIO gave me California Uncovered, then two editions of Kite Runner, then Running book discussion groups : a how-to-do-it manual ...

Off the top: Kite Runner--too predictable I would love to get through Catch-22 but I am not sure I will live long enough. I like Jodi Picoult but never seem to finish any of them. It's like beer; I hate the taste but gee eveyone drinks it ... Savage Beauty Dissappointing. I love St. Vi ...

... everywhere losing the reader--you. I do not believe you have to finish a book or finish your plate for that matter. The KiteRunner: Please I got to the last 10 pages and said, " Take that! This book is so predictable!" The Virgin Suicides: Is there a point in there somewhere? Jo ...

Reading the Kite Runner and Have Mercy on all of Us by Fred Vargas who has her books translated from French. A real captivating book. Found her books at the library.

Started the Kite Runner this evening.

I have finished Olive Kitteridge which was wonderful! I am now, finally, going to read The Kite Runner.

... was a pretty good book. How about that one? Not that you asked for a suggestion, but . . . :) I also saw that you have The Kite Runner and, also, haven't indicated that that one has been read. I was GOING to suggest that we read it together because I have it and haven't read it. But your ...

... & #205 (coppers), I've not forgotten about "A Thousand Splendid Suns"; looking forward to reading it soon. I really liked "The Kite Runner", which I read last summer (watched & liked the movie at about the same time). #198 (teelee) The 'book darts' look very useful, I'll have to see if I ...

Thanks alcottacre, I did really enjoy it so much. This was my review of it: "I can see why Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner & A Thousand Splendid Suns) wrote a blurb for this book as it certainly belongs in the same category of beautifully written modern fiction that personally takes us into ...

16 - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 12 - Anne McCaffery

#16 The Kite Runner but it is in my TBR pile. #10 Isaac Asimov Don't know if I want to change this or not.

MerryMary, we're not quite alike, but we're not *totally* different. #16 The Kite Runner #24 Dean R. Koontz (and it's just never gonna' happen).

Katy: we are exactly alike! #16 the Kite Runner #3 Terry Pratchett

#16 The Kite Runner #3 Terry Pratchett That's fun Morphy :-)

Uhm, second to last. You'll probably get to The Kite Runner before me. Before that, I've got to read the Tao Te Ching, from jillmwo's library.

From Catgwinn's library, I choose The Kite Runner because I am the last person on the face of the planet who has not yet read it.

I'm kind of surprised no one has snatched up The Kite Runner yet. Despite my status message, I *am* headed to the PO on Friday, so feel free to mooch. http://www.bookmooch.com/m/inventory/wisewoman

I gave up on Kite Runner, I just could not get into it.

I loved The Kite Runner and am honestly surprised that there are people who don't enjoy it! Sigh...Live and learn. This week, I am reading fluff and thoroughly enjoying it: Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich. Sometimes, I get a little overburdened by job, life etc and the Stephanie Plu ...

#71 coppers and #59 sf59, I also liked "The Kite Runner". I read the book and watched the film at about the same time and found that the film enhanced the book and visa- versa.

... let me know when it is. And thank you for the book - I'm finding Columbine to be very cathartic. Also, I loved The Kite Runner. My husband hated it.

>DaveCullen- Welcome to LT! I thought The Kite Runner was an excellent book. Highly recommended, hang in there! I've read a couple reviews on Columbine and they were very favorable. It sounds like you did a great job. Have you read the latest Wally Lamb, a fictional account of Columbine? I ...

... . I couldn't even read more than a few pages of The Secret Life of Bees, The Shipping News was terminally boring, and The Kite Runner was odd and schmaltzy. Did enjoy An Instance of the Fingerpost and The Shadow of the Wind. But thats what makes the world go round - everyone likes ...

I forgot to pack a book last week, so I picked up The Kite Runner at the airport. I've been meaning to see what all the fuss is about. I only read a few pages, because I could not bear it so far. Seems awfully precious. Maybe it gets better. I couldn't drag myself back to it yet, so I picked ...

... for one of your recently read books The Fat Man and Infinity and noticed that it has the same cover picture as a copy of The Kite Runner at the link below (not the one on the LT Touchstone, however): Just this one ... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0747566534/ref=nosim/librarything0 ...

... H. Gass 59. Kennedy's brain--Henning Mankell 60. 12:23 Paris. 31st August 1997.--Eoin McNamee 61. The Kite runner--Khaled Hosseini 62. The spiders of Allah--James Hider 63. The god of carnage--Yasmina Reza 64. The killing of yesterday's children--M. S. Power ...

... we're approximately 1/3 through the year and I'm 1/3 of the way to 75. Gotta stay on track. Just finished listening to The Kite Runner in audiobook format this morning on the way to work. This was a brutal "read," but it was well worth sticking it out. I've posted a review. I'm going to ...

#169 - That's a strange coincidence, because I just started on The Kite Runner too! Well, I started yesterday, to be exact, but I didn't get very far because of other stuff...

I'm pretty sure I'll start reading The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini today.

... by Zoe Heller (7/9) 3.5 stars 8. Shopgirl by Steve Martin (8/31) 4 stars 9. ideas: Children of Men, The Kite Runner, Stardust, The Painted Veil, The Beach, Little Children thoughts: - i love Evelyn Waugh. and i loved Brideshead Revisited. it was so ...

... on order) and I know that I have a copy of Middlemarch somewhere. So, that leaves a dozen to be acquired and consumed: The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving Atonement - Ian McEwan Life of Pi ...

... group 8. Uncle Bobby's Wedding, by Sarah S. Brannen Reasons: homosexuality, unsuited to age group 9. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group 10. Flashcards of My Life, by Charise Mericle Harper ...

Heidi, I loved Kite Runner too. A Thousand Splendid Suns was just as good, but I found this one difficult to read. I actually had a knot in my stomach every time I picked up the book, due to extremely graphic violence towards women. It is agonizing that this is the reality of life for women of ...

I also put Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet on my TBR list, it sounds like a great read. I have read The Kite Runner and really enjoyed it, I have not yet read A Thousand Splendid Suns, is it as good? I have either read or want to read most of your books on your list. I keep checking ...

... Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton 5.The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 6.The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs

... suggestions. 2.Been clever forever Bruce Stone, being a HS kid in a college town ( a roman a clef about Chapel Hill) 3. The Runner Cynthia Voigt - follow on story to the Tillerman saga - race, sport, HS, family. 4. Feed MT Anderson. V. good SF, lots of ideas in re technology and privacy ...

... ini I read this as part of my ravelry book group and really enjoyed it although it is a very moving story. I also liked The Kite Runner by the same author which I read last year.

I started the audiobook version of The Kite Runner, read by the author, today. I'm loving it so far -- almost done with the first disc.

... read one book, what would it be? Idon't know about everyone, but I sure forced my family to read The Book Thief, The Kite Runner and The Book of Wonders 10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature? I don't really have a clue 11) What book would you ...

... of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (Another movie that I watched) 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie ...

Am just finishing A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini which I was looking forward to after liking The Kite Runner so much but thought the eleven cd's might be a bit much. Not so, am going to be sorry to see it end, although after all the depressing conditions in the book I am looking ...

... make one better or worse than the other, just different. Sometimes the book and the film complement each other. I read "The Kite Runner" at about the same time as I saw the movie and found that the movie enhanced the setting while the book allowed additional insight into the characters.

... Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan ...

... wis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne ...

... of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Anima ...

... Slumdog Millionaire (originally titled Q & A: A Novel) by Vikas Swarup, and I'm betting that, like The Kite Runner, this is an amazing book in which the majority of the story takes place mentally; the type of story that doesn not translate to the big screen well. I was ...

Book #21 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 371 pages total pages to date in 2009=7,642 Great book. I can see why it is so high on the list of books owned in Librarything.com Hmmmm, what next?????

... of you... I'd love to be able to read A Thousand Splendid Suns again for the first time! It was every bit as good as The Kite Runner, and I think maybe even better ;-) Enjoy... but keep the Kleenex handy.

... frothy. Along with that I am also starting A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini with high expections after loving The Kite Runner.

The Kite Runner was fantastic, marisa-w! I actually liked it better than A Thousand Splendid Suns, I'd highly recommend it.

Has it been a quarter already?! My top five would be, in order of reading: The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini The Ghost - Robert Harris Dolores Claiborne - Stephen King Olympos - Dan Simmons (won't have finished this by the end of March, ...

Thanks, everyone, for your recommendations! I'll definitely have the check these out. I have read The Kite Runner and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, as some of you have suggested... thanks again, everyone!!

I'll just say the two I thought of when I read your list: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Or (one more) Eva Luna by Isabel Allende.

Ok, I'm going to take another stab at this (I hope I'm allowed more than one guess). The Kite Runner? I haven't read the book, but I heard a lot about it and the slingshot with the notebook is ringing a bell.

... is NOT, Grendel -- awesome, Beowulf -- life-transforming. Right now, just a very quick report on a light read: Runner by Thomas Perry Return to Perry's excellence, after the disappointment of Fidelity. J ...

... year. I am going to count war and peace again this year, then there was jungle capitalists, a sense of the world, the kite runner and the great war.

I just finished the kite runner by Khaled Hosseini. Evernight by Claudia Gray is the next on the list!

#8 The Kite Runner what a great book, I just couldn't put it down. Now to find another book:)

... to reread Le Clezio's short story collection The round and other cold hard facts. Some books on my short list: The Kite runner--Khaled Hosseini Oblivion: Stories--David Foster Wallace The tunnel--William H. Gass Not not while the giro--James Kelman Dead I well may be--Adr ...

... read. I really enjoyed this book. It is about a girl that is killed and then watches what going on on earth in heaven. #8 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, just started the book.

... hand, so I probably shouldn't gripe! They also announced next year's visiting authors: Khaled Hosseini - loved both The Kite Runner & A Thousand Splendid Suns Geraldine Brooks - really liked Year of Wonders Pete Hamill - I'm unfamiliar with him Richard Russo - I've ...

... a bit relentless. I saw a theatre production of the book in London where they got rid of the final scene (in the same that The Kite Runner film didn't feel the need for the "bathtub" incident...). you've got me all intrigued by Mad, Bad and Sad - just when I told myself NO MORE BOOKS in a ...

... LW&W 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM M ...

... books A good way (as Suzannah1 mentioned) is searching for books through LT first. If you go into a books page (such as The Kite Runner) on the top right hand corner, add BookMooch to your "Buy, borrow, swap or view" list by clicking the pencil link. You can also search for related editions ...

... to enjoy, and thus am often suspicious of books that are hyped, "know" in advance that I won't like them, and avoid them (The Kite Runner, for example). In other cases, I will read and even finish hyped books, against my better judgment, because they sound interesting, but I have often been ...

Vanilla cookies? Interesting. I haven't read The Kite Runner but I have read Flyte

... butter, coconut, oreos, Want some? passes cookies to foggi ETA: Yayyy I haven't read Evernight But I have read The Kite Runner

According to Publishers Weekly, the best-selling (most popular) author in the world is Khaled Hosseini, the guy who wrote Kite Runner. He's a very good writer who also is engaging on a "pull the reader along" enjoyment level. Our best seller lists often feature great writers like Marilyn Ro ...

My now-15-year old read The Kite Runner last summer for 10th grade honors English... I privately had a few qualms until I remembered what my mother let me read. My daughter shrugged off the icky parts (I was going to put what they were, generically, but decided they would be spoilers) and ...

Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman A Thousand Spended Suns by Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner by Khled Hosseini The Wake of the Wind by J California Cooper When the Wind Blows by James Patterson

From Catgwinn, I plucked The Kite Runner.

I have just picked up A Thousand Splendid Suns. I was really moved by The Kite Runner and look forward to this one.

... FlossieT with blunt objects> Amazing book about Afghanistan and should by rights have been more popular than The Kite Runner, but wasn't because of the lesser role played by heart-string-tugging small children. I keep buying it for people, and it's not even out in paperback yet. ...

I just finished The Time travelers wife and Sweep: book of shadows. Now i'm reading The kite runner.

I thought The Kite Runner was fabulous as well. I was so emotionally drained after reading it that I couldn't read anything for several days. I love books like that. Books that make you feel something so powerful that you wouldn't have felt otherwise. klobrien2> I would love to hear your ...

I had a similar reaction to A Thousand Splendid Suns. I really enjoyed the book--now I need to go read The Kite Runner.

4. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. After reading The Kite Runner I thought this book missed the mark at first. At roughly 400 pages, the first 350 were ok.... good story but nothing gripping. But around the 350 mark Hosseini caught me completely off-guard. So much so that I ...

... be a while before I start it however, as I have some books that have been begging to be read for a while now - e.g. The Kite Runner and Twilight , both discussed ad nauseam here on LT :D

... has a career?) The term "literary" is the book publishing world's word for "indie" or "alternative." Be cool, read The Kite Runner, it's ethnic and whatever. Show your friends how organic and earth-friendly you are by reading about amusing non-Caucasians. (I'm exaggerating slightly.) ...

... but this might be one way to bump books up the TBR pile. Oh and for the record the thing-o-meter thought I might not like The Kite Runner but I did (I think that does make me a crowd follower) oh well :-)

Now, you've got me clicking on everything to check the popularity! My most popular reads so far this year. Kite Runner is standing at 15 (who would have guessed) The poisonwood bible is 79. I'm going to stop now!

... selection by T. R. Frame -non-fiction 3.Embers by Sandor Marai A, B 4.Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels A, B 5.The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini A 6.Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind B 7.The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver A, B, E 8.The Road Home ...

... A, B 4. Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels A, B 5.The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini A 6.Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind B 7.The Poisonwood Bi ...

... biographie du Commandant Massoud à travers la vie de sa femme. Tout comme dans le best-seller Les cerfs-volants de Kaboul (the kite runner), que j'ai lu en Septembre dernier, cela m'a permis de préciser grandement mes connaissances sur la géographie et l'histoire récente de ce pays, qui ...

Happy Australia Day everyone. I've had a couple of enjoyable reads this weekend. Friday received The Kite Runner and finished it sometime in the wee hours of Saturday. Once I pick them up I just cant seem to put down Khaled Hosseini's books. I'm making it a bookray soon, after my Uncle ...

... White Season Election Endless Love Ethan Frome Great Expectations How Green was my Valley In Her Shoes Kite Runner Last Temptation of Christ Little Children Lolita Lord of the Flies Memoirs of a Geisha Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Mists of Avalo ...

08 - 21 Jan: Runner by Thomas Perry

... I Would Like to Read This Year- 1. The Bookseller of Kabul- Asne Seierstad 2. Ella Minnow Pea- Mark Dunn 3. The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini 4. Water For Elephants- Sara Gruen 5. All Saints- Liam Callanan 6. The Memory Keeper's Daughter- Kim Edwards

... difficult to use for A Thousand Splendid Suns, but I thought it was a very good book and an important book. I thought The Kite Runner was a better book -- far more powerful, and more believable characterization -- but in many ways, I found A Thousand Splendid Suns more interesting. I ...

#95 thanju2409. I enjoyed the Kite Runner and my husband bought me The Time Traveler's Wife for Christmas so that is in my trb pile. Let me know what you think of that book when you are finished with it.

I'm reading The time traveler's wife by Audrey Niffenegger and the kite runner by Khaled Hosseini.

... normally like graphic novels, but I will try the Marjane Satrapi and Palestine. You're the second person to recommend The Kite Runner on this thread, and my mom's been trying to get me to read it for years, so I think it'll have to go on the list, lol. Dancing Arabs, Beaufort, and Adju ...

... HaAretz. I know this book is super-popular, but I loved since I discovered it on the new book shelf of my library. Read The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Regarding Iran, I like the graphic novels of Marjane Satrapi (an Iranian now living in the U.S.). Try Persepolis, then Persep ...

... you do this, oddly enough, you'll tend to acquire *even more* books!! :) ETA: There is also a movie that was made of The Kite Runner which was quite good. See it if you have the chance.

... name one country that you'd like to get to know better through fiction. A good beginning is the very popular read The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. His book is a novel about the friendship of two boys in Afghanistan. Although the book itself had been a world-praised bestseller, ...

#45: I also enjoyed The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns has been on Continent TBR for a while now, so I guess I ought to read it. I think I will be going on an Afghanistan kick for a while since I have Kabul in Winter, The Bookseller of Kabul and The Sewing Circles of Herat all ...

Book #7: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini I read The Kite Runner in November, and enjoyed it, so I thought I would give this one a go too. While The Kite Runner is a male-centric novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns focuses on two Afghani women. Hosseini is not ...

Top 3 (adult) books> The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Confessions of Max Tivoli is my all time favorite. I read it a couple of years ago and I can still open it up, read the last page and ...

... minority on that one :) It seemed a mere venue for Afghanistan history, aimed toward Western sympathies. But I too loved The Kite Runner -- in Gardens of Water, Alan Drew's writing style reminded me of Hosseini's.

... to me both from having lived in the Middle East and from reading much middle eastern literature. On the other hand, The Kite Runner, the author's debut novel, grabbed me right away even though I discovered it when it had been a new book on my library shelf and at a time in which not too ...

FlossieT I agree with you that after all the hype The Kite Runner was disappointing. I am currently reading 1000 Splendid Suns only because it is my book club's choice for January. I am finding it to be shallow, although the story of the women's friendship is interesting enough to make me ...

... Vigil, which he said was a must-read if you wanted to understand Afghanistan. It was an amazing book. Later picked up The Kite Runner (which I would have found disappointing if I hadn't been expecting to be disappointed, IYSWIM), but since then I've been gradually amassing a small ...

... by Liz Jensen 61. Making Sense of Movies: Filmmaking in the Hollywood Style by Robert Henry Stanley 62. The Kite Runner by Khaled Housseini 63. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova 64. Ring of Fire by P.D. Baccalario 65. Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz ...

... them, but the reflection required to list them in my top 5 warranted upgrades to 5 stars. I feel bad for leaving out The Kite Runner, which is my only other 5 star book this year. But I thought I'd just mention it to make it feel better.

... that half my books last year were relatively short Shakespeare plays. But I'll go for it anyway. Wish me luck! 1) The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini. Wow, what a story. I haven't wept openly that much while reading a book in a long time. He writes with a masterful sparseness ...

... a recap of 2008 before starting with the books I have read in 2009 so here it goes; 1. Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult 2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 3. Belly Laughs by Jenny McCarthy 4. Personal Demon by Kelley Armstrong 5. Mistaken Identity by Don and Susie Van Ryn 6. Chose ...

... Swan Green, David Mitchell 23. Lifeless, Mark Billingham 24. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson 25. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini 26. The Accidental, Ali Smith 27. Trust Me, Peter Leonard 28. City Primeval, Elmore Leonard 29. The Girl Who Played with F ...

... ne 7. F.M. Dostojewski - Schuld en boete 8. Jef Geeraerts - De trap 8. Nieuwe boeken 1. Khaled Hosseini- The kite runner 2. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Omwentelingen 3. Giles Tremlett - Spaanse spoken 4. Gudbergur Bergsson - De zwaan 5. Ildefonso Falc ...

... Secret Empire of Ivory Victory of Eagles Camelot's Sword First among sequels Arthur and George Dead heat Kite Runner The Day the world came to town Shaman's crossing Forest Mage Renegade's magic Lion of Senet Eye of the Labyrinth Lord of the Shadows The T ...

... 49, The Bad Beginning, A Wrinkle in Time, At the Heart of Hiruharama, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, The Kite Runner, The Last Wish, Mister B. Gone and The Supernaturalist. Those are the books that I did struggle to finish and wish I hadn't invested time and money ...

Very best top dog winner of 2008 for me is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Others at the top o' the pile: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Things they Carried by Tim O'Brien Duma Key by Stephen King Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Timbuktu by ...

... ten-year wait since I first copied this down out of the New Yorker's books column was well worth it. Most Over-Hyped: The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini. Meh. Guilty Pleasures: The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger Little Face - Sophie Hannah Books Most Poorly Served By Thei ...

... Mary Ann Shaffer The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss I make no guarantees that my count is 100% accurate. There were about 25 with 2, ...

Faraway Places 4/9 1. Bitter Lemons of Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell (Cyprus) (Completed 24 April) 2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan) (TBR) 3. The White Tiger by Aravid Adiga (India) (TBR) 4. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (Japan) (TBR) 5. Morality ...

... "Three Cups of Tea" in early December...a facinating story. Earlier in the fall I read "Reading Lolita In Terhan" and "The Kite Runner". Each provided insights on the life & cultures in remote Pakistan, and in Iran and Afganistan respectively.

Man, I'd love to come in again but we're about the watch The Kite Runner. :o/

Hi there, I've got The Kite Runner in hardcover to be put on bookmooch! With as many people as there are on BM who've wishlisted it, I thought to ask if any of them are here. Nota bene: this isn't a collector's copy by any means: the binding's a little off, and it's clearly gotten a bit wet ...

I've read The Kite Runner but I've never read Arrowsmith. (wonder how long THAT will take?)

I've read The Kite Runner, But I've never read O Pioneers.

I've read Peter and the Starcatchers, But I've never read The Kite Runner.

... and Children of the Mind By Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere and American Gods The Engines of God by Jack McDevitt The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and finally Anthem by Ayn Rand. Also some books came in intended for Christmas gifts: The Master and Margarita, The Gate to Women' ...

I think they are both entertaining Mandy, and to me the best one out of the two of them was the kite runner, maybe because I read that one in English and A Thousand Splendid Suns in Spanish but I liked them both, I hope you enjoy them and tell us what you think about it. P.S. I cried a ...

I just got The Kite Runner last night. I already read A thousand Splendid Suns and really enjoyed it and I hear The Kite Runner is amazing. Also i'm currently on Three to get Deadly in the Stephanie Plum series.

I wasn't so thrilled with The Kite Runner either. But I loved his second book. I look forward to Aslam.

... my best book of the year. Has really sparked off an interest in Afghanistan for me - although after not being so taken with The Kite Runner, I'm thinking I'm going to try to read some non-fiction. Just got The Sewing Circles of Herat from Bookmooch and am looking forward to it.

3. Miscellaneous Fiction: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow The Secret History by ...

The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

From LisaMorr's library I select A Thousand Suns by Khalid Hossenini. I enjoyed reading The Kite Runner this past summer. I watched the DVD/film while I was reading the book. The book & movie complement each other nicely.

... free world has probably already seen . . . but sometimes I'm slow on the uptake! It came from the same pile that contains The Kite Runner, another "popular" work I'm just getting around to starting!

... Tess Gerritsen 6. The Princess Bride by William Goldman 7. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris 8. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 9. Pandora's Daughter by Iris Johansen

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniSnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeIn a Far Country by Linda HolemanDead Famous by Ben EltonBroken Skin by Stuart MacBrideChoosing 5 is hard - probably would list a different 5 tomorrow!

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Time and Chance by Sharon Kay Penman The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons

... by Doreen Valiente - she left me feeling hopefully that the Craft will flourish and grow, even if it changes. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - This was the first selection I read with my book club. It started off with such promise! Oh, well. The book was good. Bitter ...

... The Arctic Incident, Eoin Colfer A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens The Eight, Katherine Neville - TAKEN The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Karen Tei Yamashita - TAKEN Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain, Kristen Menger-Anderson Shad ...

... Kiran Desai 4. (29) The Dressmaker - Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck 5. (31) The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth 6. (47) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 7. (61) Going Postal - Terry Pratchett 8. (63) Making Money - Terry Pratchett 9. (67) Notes from an Exhibition - Patrick Gale ...

... Black Swan Green by David Mitchell 4. Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt 5. The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro 6. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 7. Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury 8. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 9. The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe 10. The ...

... Night Time by Mark Haddon Time and Chance by Sharon Kay Penman and my favorite was (drum roll, please) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

... conversation WAY late...but I feel like I should say that if you are in the mood for something light-hearted, don't read The Kite Runner. I actually almost didn't make it through the novel because I was so depressed by what was going on...it does end on a hopeful note though

Also read from November nudges: Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn Comments on my nudge thread for Nov. Kev ...

... to read a lot more Elizabeth Taylor now. Books that have also been nudged on this thread that I read in November: The Kite Runner - not all were in agreement with this, and I'm afraid I have to put myself in the "underwhelmed" camp. Here, with apologies to the 75ers that have already ...

I have a copy of The Kite Runner, not in the greatest shape (front cover is sort of ripped), but I see that it's on a lot of wishlists on BookMooch, so . . . anyone want it? I've reserved it for the week in case anyone on LT wants it, so let me know.

... Mosteshar I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Why We Act Like Canadians by Pierre Berton The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova More Canada Firsts by Duff Conacher Kings of Many Castles by Brian Freemantle ...

... going to make '09 now. Junot Diaz's The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao is figuring in the near future as well. As is The kite runner when my wife gets done with it.

... - Gil Courtemanche Sudan What is the What - Dave Eggers Asia Afghanistan The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hossini China Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See India Death ...

Flossie I finished The Kite Runner yesterday night only and found it decent enough and have rated it 3.5 on a scale of 5. But then, I haven't read the "You know who" book which I sincerely hope you will tell me the name of...Like you, I also would give A Thousand Splendid Suns a try next ...

... on LT much the last few days - manic weekend - and it has taken me a little while to catch up on all the threads! 89. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini I was a bit underwhelmed by this TBH. If I hadn't already fallen in love with The Book I Read Recently That I Shall Not Name Because I H ...

#67 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 3.5/5

... my relatives (specifically my uncle)...buy me a book...(^^;) The gift that I got this year from one of my friends is Kite Runner ps. On a side note..I got a $25 gift card to a local used book shop from a library that I volunteered for some time..(300+ hours..) Nice people..those ...

... New LibraryThing member here, and audiobook addict -- I'll just jump right in! I really enjoyed the author reading The Kite Runner -- the accurate pronunciations really completed the story for me. I also LOVED the first minute or so of this book (the part about "I've been looking down ...

... to successfully present the story from these female viewpoints, and the work he did to get these results. I really enjoyed The Kite Runner, but I found Splendid Suns an even greater achievement, in part because of how Hosseini fleshed out his female central characters.

A big de-nudge for Water for Elephants. I found the book really boring and flat. A nudge for The Kite Runner it's a great story to read, but I agree A Thousand Splendid Suns is better. I didn't really like On Chesil Beach but it's such a short novel that I can't really de-nudge it. If ...

... year (over 60 pulp novels), which reminded me why I prefer decent writing. I'd recommend Underworld, A Man In Full, The Kite Runner and Sacred Games as easily the best books I've read this year in terms of scope, style and sheer emotion. I've run out of books to read so it'll be back ...

... and Bel Canto but didn't like Magician's Assistant. Interesting. As to books I was "supposed" to like: I'll mention The Kite Runner. I'm sorry books about pedophilia are never my idea of a "good read". Also include Cold Mountain as mentioned above and Memoirs of a Geisha. As for ...

... grip of Booker fever, I have now resumed and I think that has swallowed a huge chunk of my book time. Plus I'm now reading The Kite Runner and to be honest not completely absorbed by it. Ah well.

>101 & 102 I just finished the Kite Runner as well. It was amazing.

... wants to become a teacher, falls in and out of love, lives a hard life only to find fulfillment with her family. 107. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini What I thought was an amazing movie is also an amazing book. I took just enough time between seeing the film and reading the novel not ...

... at all. The only reason I did finish it was because it was short. It didn't do anything for me. I really enjoyed The Kite Runner and The History of Love. I also enjoyed Garden Spells, but not quite as much as some other people I talked to about it. Mosquito looks interesting, ...

Next up should be The kite Runner or Water For Elephants 2 great books.

... 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. LT # 286 - 4,617 owners - 33 reviews - rating = 3.84. 18. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. LT # 16 - 17,258 owners - 492 reviews - rating = 4.29. 19. Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus by John Gray. LT # 14 ...

Oh, dear! Kite Runner is near the top of my TBR pile and LT has almost cured me of playing solitaire! Maybe I had better pile a few more books on top of the pile. ;-)

just started The Kite Runner last night and now I have an overwhelming urge to play Solitaire and waste time on the Internet.....

... Reading: Paradise Lost Agnes Grey Away Laughing on a Fast Camel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire The Kite Runner

>162 I can't speak to The Kite Runner because I'll never read it--I read A Thousand Splendid Suns and hated that, pretty much. Women living miserable lives in backward civilizations is not something I want to dwell on. Though, actually, women living miserable lives in the good ol' USA is no ...

... Downham *** Bookends by Jane Green * Jemima J by Jane Green * MIDDLE EAST AGHANISTAN The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hossini IRAN Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani *** Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi ...

My top nudge would go to The Kite Runner, followed closely by One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Good Behavior (Keane is so wickedly catty), and The Magic Toyshop. Definite non-nudges go to The Quincunx - a miserable attempt at trying to copy the Victo ...

I'm reading The Kite Runner and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Diverse and very interesting books, both of them.

... tastes. I do find most of the books my colleagues read to be pretentious and poorly written -- and that includes The Kite Runner which I cringed my way through. Most of my colleagues worship this novel -- though I cannot fathom why. There are so many other great books out there that ...

So many to nudge! I adored both The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. They, plus Death of a Murderer (short of nudges here, I guess, because it's probably only of interest in the UK but it is a fabulous book). Minor nudges too for The Quincunx, The Magic Toyshop, Watching ...

... tore. Currently Reading: Madame Bovary Away Laughing on a Fast Camel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire The Kite Runner

I would nudge either of the Khaled Hosseini books. I think The Kite Runner was a great novel for a first time writer but I liked the story arc of A Thousand Splendid Suns better. Most people I know, in real life that is, read one then immediately or soon after read the other anyway - ...

... even if I don't reread it right away, I would just like to have it on my shelves. The latter I read because I'd liked The Kite Runner. My next few books will be what I've borrowed from the library -- The Shape of Mercy, How to Ditch Your Fairy, Dewey, and Graceling but no idea ...

... you exactly why. Am planning to re-read it soon, now I have it in a beautiful Virago limited edition. I too thought The Kite Runner was over-rated.

... -Cormac McCarthy Female writer: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See I would also have picked The Kite Runner and The Things They Carried, but you have already done those. Have you ever taught graphic novels as a literary form? Are you willing to do so? If so, ...

... novels, ones where the students on their own want to read them to find out what happens next. I've used such novels as The Kite Runner, The Lovely Bones, The English Patient, and The Time Traveler's Wife. (You can see the list of my sixteen most successful novels used this way on Amaz ...

... novels, ones where the students on their own want to read them to find out what happens next. I've used such novels as The Kite Runner, The Lovely Bones, The English Patient, and The Time Traveler's Wife. (You can see the list of my sixteen most successful novels used this way on Amaz ...

... I was out at lunch, two books appeared on my desk in the office: Robyn Sisman's Summer In the City and Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner -- mooches from New York and Florida. Very exciting! I've put off buying The Kite Runner for a while but jumped at the chance to mooch it.

This is an excellent thread! Thank you everyone that gave a thumbs down to The Kite Runner... it is now off my TBR pile. No one else has mentioned this one yet, but I hated The Mists of Avalon. I received the book as a gift from a friend that loved it and to this day (years later) she ...

Oh good, a selection of books that I know something about . . . As discussed on someone else's thread, I thought Kite Runner was overrated and contrived. Not a waste of time, though. When I read On Chesil Beach I was puzzled until the end, and then it all came together beautifully to me. ...

... some people hate me for it. LOL So take this as the views of a contrarian. I hated Water for elephants and loathed Kite Runner Although I usually like McEwan, I did not care for On Chesil Beach at all. I abandoned Gilead even though people around me raved about it. Stone Diaries I ...

Another nudge for The Kite Runner ... ooh, and Mosquito. Would that be half a nudge each, then?!

... have to read it!) And I felt like I was there in outback Australia while I read it. So that's my nudge. I also enjoyed the Kite Runner and Water for Elephants.

... lauded as a masterpiece by many. Goes to show!! Stiff is rather too close to home - I have it but not yet read it. The Kite Runner? Repeating my previous post - disappointing for me. The rest - not read yet although The Road has been waiting on my TBR for over a year!

... another case of me disagreeing with the majority. I found it tedious and the main characters boring and unlikeable. The Kite Runner--easy to see why it was such a bestseller. I think it more flawed than Hosseini's second book, A Thousand Splendid Suns, but still worth the reading. I ...

... Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner Gilead by Marilynne Robinson The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini March by Geraldine Brooks Peace Like A River by Leif Enger Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Faceless Killer ...

I haven't read many of those. I agree that the Kite Runner is overrated. I found it contrived. That said, I don't feel that reading it was a waste of time, and I did enjoy it after I finally got into it. The Birth of Venus is entirely without merit. The only reason to read it is if you're ...

... my count, The Magic Toyshop is edging ahead at the moment, with The Sea (hmm can't get the touchstone to work) and then The Kite Runner close behind. I think I may have read The Company of Wolves as we watched the film at school for our 'film club' - I have vague memories of 'spotting the ...

Great list of books!! I'm going to nudge the Kite Runner as well, because I really enjoyed it until near the end. Can I de-nudge the Birth of Venus? I forgot that I'd read it (never a great sign) but re-reading the blurb on here brought it all back. I did finish it, but really didn't find ...

Karen, A Thousand Splendid Suns was much better than The Kite Runner, in my opinion. Flossie, I've read a few of your book, but they didn't quite knock me out: The Sea, Scandal of the Season, The Birth of Venus, The Meaning of Night. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont is lovely, if ...

Hello Rachael and WELCOME to the group. You have given us lots of fodder for thought. I read The Kite Runner and was one of very few that thought it was overrated. I did not enjoy it much so did not bother with A Thousand Splendid Suns. John Banville is a superfluous and ...

... shelf: The Story of Childhood - Libby Brooks The Sweetest Dream - Doris Lessing The Silver Swan - Benjamin Black The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Phillips The Quincunx - Charles Pallis ...

8. MOVIE TIE-IN 1. Possession: A Romance by A.S.Byatt 2. Not Without My Daugther by Betty Mahmoody 3. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 4. The Shania Twain Story: On Her Way by Scott Gray ---JAN. 3---*** 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Finished The Kite Runner this morning. What a fantastic book! At first, I didn't like how cowardly the narrator was, but I knew he would mature and face his flaws. The characters were engaging. This book was very tragic, and it was a great read. I liked how Hosseini didn't use a lot of flowery ...

Finished The Kite Runner this morning. A fantastic book. At first, I didn't like how cowardly the narrator was, but as he matured and learned how to own up to his mistakes, I got attached to him. This book was very tragic, and it was a great read. I liked how Hosseini didn't use a lot of flowery ...

The Kite Runner, The Interpretation of Murder and Mr Maybe have all departed today, and are even now en route to bookmoochers in various parts of Britain and Europe.

I've just listed The Kite Runner, which I know is on a fair few wishlists. Gone!

I stopped at a thrift store today and found a copy of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. It is a slightly battered trade paperback and someone wrote their name on the outside edges (in black pen, not marker). Certainly not pristine, but structurally sound and clean inside. It's a good reading ...

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini. Lived up to its buzz. Wonderful.

... have to give away some books, even those that I love. (I haven't listed them on bookmooch yet!) So here's a list first: The Kite Runner - movie tie in edition The Other Boleyn Girl - movie tie in edition Stardust - movie tie in edition On Chesil Beach - HC Neverwhere The Histor ...

... la qualité (quelques mots pour donner ton avis sur le livre) à la quantité (pas besoin d'être "productif"!). Les cerfs-volants de Kaboul est très bien.... J'ai lu un Terry Pratchett dans l'univers du disque-monde, c'est "spécial", de la fantasy loufoque!

... lisez-le, lisez-le, lisez-le! http://www.poxd.org/2008/10/23/critique-de-livre-getting-things-done-de-david-allen/ 4. Les cerfs-volants de Kaboul - Khaled Hosseini et Valérie Bourgeois >> Véritable tragédie, l’auteur m’a personnellement captivé de part son ton et les sentiments qu� ...

I just lent these books to a work colleague: The curious incident of the dog in night time The Kite Runner Love in the time of Cholera The Thirteenth Tale Playing for Pizza She is very happy!

Good to hear from you, MusicMom! Those are good choices! I loved The Remains of the Day and The Kite Runner. But you might want to move A Thousand Splendid Suns up in your TBR pile, as well. A lot of Lters loved it, and you never know, you might be amongst them! Oi ... now I'll have to ...

1 THE THIRTEENTH TALE by DEANE SETTERFIELD 2 SEE JAN RUN by JOY FELDING 3 THE KITE RUNNER by KHALED HOSSEINI 4 CLEAR AND CONVINCING by KATE WILHELM 5 A CIRCLE OF QUIET by MADELEINE L'ENGLE 6 CROOKED HOUSE by AGATHA CHRISTIE 7 PASSENGER TO FRANKFURT by AGATHA ...

... that I plan to explore. But the first books from your list that goes on my TBR pile with be Remains of the Day and The Kite Runner because I own them already. I also own Thousand Suns but I guess I'll leave that one until I get some more compelling books read. I bought both of those ...

137: investory. So, I take it you thought favorably of The Kite Runner? I felt it was an outstanding novel, filled with a beautiful intensity.

#137 The Kite Runner is fiction, but many political facts are true as well as the headline making news.

I just finished two very good books - The Kite Runner and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. I recommend both, however I am not sure I should describe The Kite Runner as good. I tried to see if this was a book that is based on facts - does anyone know?

... loves to look over my shelves and talks about books alot. She is reading The Historian for Honors English, and finished The Kite Runner this summer. I'll have to tell her she's a bibliophibian.

25. les cerfs-volants de Kaboul de Khaled Hosseini : Un chef d'oeuvre d'émotion à la hauteur de sa réputation. hum... mi-septembre et seulement le 25ème. Le challenge me parait compromis!

... Bernhard Schlink 5 Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to Freedom by Sulima and Hala 6 The Kite Runner by Khaled Housseini 7 The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry by Assia Djebar 8 The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani Book Awards 1 ...

... Bernhard Schlink 5 Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to Freedom by Sulima and Hala 6 The Kite Runner by Khaled Housseini 7 The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry by Assia Djebar 8 The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani Book Awards 1 ...

I'm interning in the English department of a Northern Virginian high school (part of my grad program) and I know that both The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns are being taught by at least one of the teachers.

... the new books that came in for this year. It seems like the English teachers here do a lot of contemporary stuff, i.e. Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, A Long Way Gone, The Glass Castle, Shabanu, Into Thin Air, etc. along with the more traditional classics and anthologies. ...

... Bernhard Schlink 5 Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to Freedom by Sulima and Hala 6 The Kite Runner by Khaled Housseini 7 The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry by Assia Djebar 8 The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani Book Awards 1 ...

... arguing for high schools to start (more widely) incorporating immediately contemporary fiction--I had The Translator and Kite Runner specifically in mind, so please tell us!!!

... read Water for Elephants, The Quiet American, Wicked (not that good), Guests of the Ayatollah, Anna Karenina, The Kite Runner, White Teeth, Will in the World, All the King's Men (one of the best I've ever read, by the way, Timebends, The Misfits, Hard News, Maps and Leg ...

... For classics -- I love, love BBC's Middlemarch series. Fairly disappointed by the recent The Other Boleyn Girl, The Kite Runner. Although Atonement was pretty good.

... a memoir, but I believe it's at least semi-autobiographical. Which books are you thinking of that have come out after The Kite Runner?

>58 hemlokgang, isn’t it! I preferred The Kite Runner but don’t have a copy handy for a quote…

The review of The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is on my blog: http://zyciowapasja.blogspot.com/2008/08/kite-runner-by-khaled-hosseini.html

... The Chocolate Run by Dorothy Koomson 18. Beyond Ugly by Constance Briscoe 19. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood 20. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 21. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer 22. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer 23. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto 24. A Thousand Splendid Suns ...

11. Afghanistan (and party the USA): The Kite Runner

55. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

I'm back in Kabul (with The Kite Runner) and still in New York (The Nanny Diaries), but now also moved to Moose County (with The Cat Who Knew A Cardinal)

... (Poland) The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (Portugal) 2008 North by Seamus Heaney (Ireland) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan) The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville (Australia) The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares (Argent ...

Right now, I'm in London (with White Teeth) and in Kabul (with The Kite Runner) during the daylight. And just before going to sleep each day I move to New York (with The Nanny Diaries).

... I am in. I managed to finish the Dante book, but could not force myself to finish the Poe book. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, almost nothing about Afghanistan, very trite and cliched in terms of the emotional part. All of Anne Rice's vampire books except The ...

... from my Father would be wonderful choices for highschoolers that are both contemporary And literary. I'd want to put Kite Runner too, but I'm not sure how many high schools would approve it. Of course, if they're going for Twilight I might have a chance.

Slinky Malinki by Lynley Dodd The Red Balloon by Albert Lamorisse The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen The Moon's a Balloon by David Niven

... Boys 6. The Time Traveler's Wife 7. The Light Fantastic 8. The Kite Runner Hooray! Finished!

A river runs through it by Norman Maclean made me want to move to Montana. Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini I presume you would like anything else by Hemingway.

... will shortly move to WWII. Just left 1970s Afganistan, 2001 San Francisco & 2001 Afganistan/Pakistan with Amir in "The Kite Runner''.

I'd planned to start The Kite Runner today, but this morning I realized that I was craving short fiction. I started in on the fifteenth edition of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror instead, and am enjoying it very much.

#33 rebeccanyc - What's Bred in the Bone is much, much better than The Rebel Angels. Don't despair! I plan to start The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini next. I realized that I've read very little general fiction this year, so I figure it's about tie I dived into some of the stuff I've ...

this is just a guess but The Kite Runner?

... ending I thought. Not happy per se, but very fitting to the story. Although I might have to give a slight edge to The Kite Runner for being a little bit better, I still enjoyed it very much. And I liked learning about Afghanistan from women's perspectives this time.

... as in "this is giving me the pip, pack it in for tonight" and we can (and have) agree to abandon some books (*cough*The Kite Runner*cough*). Most often we're good about finishing what we start together, though it can be a chore if one hates the book (*cough*Lord of the Rings*cough*) ...

Briefly started A Thousand Splendid Suns and I'm balancing it out with Eleven On Top. I figure if it's anything like The Kite Runner I'll need something light to go along with it. For my read-at-work-when-we're-slow book I'm reading Wuthering Heights, a classic that I've never read or ...

My favorite so far is The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini but Someone Else's Child by Nancy Woodruff is one of the best this year

#293 Very much looking forward to A Thousand Splendid Suns after reading this. (Have been anyway because I loved The Kite Runner too, but this gives me a new kick in the pants...) Have been wondering 'what next' since finishing The Magician's Assistant this afternoon (LOVED it). So I guess ...

I finished A Thousand Splendid Suns yesterday morning. I was surprised that I thought it was even better than The Kite Runner. My review is In the Shadow of Mt. TBR. Currently about 1/ ...

>101 I just finished The Kite Runner. I loved it. I'd suggest putting it at the top of your list. It's a fast read, but still hits pretty hard.

I finished A Thousand Splendid Suns this morning. I really loved the book. It was even better than The Kite Runner, and I that one's one of my top reads this year. My review is In the Shadow ...

I finished A Thousand Splendid Suns this morning, and loved it! I thought it was even better than The Kite Runner. My review is In the Shadow of Mt. TBR.

I finished A Thousand Splendid Suns this morning, and loved it! I thought it was even better than The Kite Runner. My review is In the Shadow of Mt. TBR. well, back to One More Year ...

I was actually hit pretty hard by The Kite Runner. I thought it did a good job with its themes of guilt and coming to grips with a new perspective on one's past.

I just finished The Kite Runner last night. I tried to review it Whicker in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 12 July 2008 (Jul 17, 2008, 5:15pm)

>206 I'm glad to see The Kite Runner is on your list. I just finished it and I am so glad I read it. As to what I'm reading, I just started The Murderers Among Us. A little slow so far, but we'll see.

... me. Staying at the beach for 9 days. Figure I can get quite a few books read in that time. Some on the list will be: Kite Runner The Jesus I never knew Honeymoon Before I awake Sense & Sensibility A walk to remember Any other suggestions are welcome!!

38. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (Finished July 16) 371 pgs So I'm a little late to the parade on this one, but, wow, what a book! It was so powerful and gripping I just could not put it down. It may be the most engaging book I have read this year.

... not being able to grow into an adult until you recognize your parents are flawed. I'm a sucker for novels about guilt, so The Kite Runner totally hooked me. In the later chapters, though, the novel seemed to switch from being a literary novel to being a thriller. It still kept me hooked, ...

Just started The Kite Runner this morning. I know I'm late to the party on this one, but better late than never, I suppose.

adding to the discussion of the Kite Runner This is in regard to the Kite Runner. I read the book several years ago in a book group and came away with thinking it was a good book but not a great book and i could not figure out what all the fuss was about. I did here the author speak a few ...

Augiemom, I completely agree! I did not enjoy The Kite Runner at all

I've just posted copies of The Kite Runner and Tipping the Velvet, if anyone is interested. Edit: They've been mooched.

I have never read the Jane Austen} books, so that is on my list. Also on the list: A Thousand Splendid Suns Kite Runner A Soldier's Promise Rhett Butlers People A Bend in the Road A Walk to Remember Jane Eyre Going to a cottage in Boothbay Harbor, Maine for ...

36. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini = 10 CD's Audio Book. This is the first audio book I've listened to this year and decided to add it to the list. I have a ~ 1 hour drive (30 miles) to my internship each way and wanted to use the time productively. So far it's an excellent if not painful ...

Coming up for me: Temper of Our Time - I've heard a lot about Eric Hoffer so it's time to give him a shot. The Kite Runner - All my in-laws have read it and it comes up a bit. Got to fit in. Vixen 03 - My guilty pleasure Clive Cussler novel of the month. I found these ones at a

... book! I finished it a few months ago and couldn't put it down. May I suggest Atonement, Half of a Yellow Sun and The Kite Runner - some of my all-time favourites. Being but a young schoolgirl, I have also read My Sister's Keeper, a heartbreaking novel that could bring anyone to ...

That's what I'm wondering--have you read Kite Runner by any chance? WARNING:: SOME SPOILERS re. Kite Runner in this thread below this point. (Spoilers not regarding conclusion or plot line, but some subjects/acts within the book are discussed specifically, not with names)

... my experiences, talks with friends, etc.). I'm wondering if anyone can see a high school in general as being able to teach Kite Runner, or if the content makes it impossible--of course, the other issue would be whether current teachers think their students would be able to handle it in a mature ...

So, here's a question. I recently read Kite Runner, and a couple of different thought processes and conversations have me wondering--would this work as a highschool text? For one, a friend of mine is trying to get her curriculum, called 'world lit.', to actually Be 'world lit.', and she was ...

... of the Apocalypse, and God's Demon. When I'm done with at least one of those, I'll start on Great Expectations and The Kite Runner.

... Discworld books. The humor puts you in a good mood for your day at work. --Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad --Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini --Devil in the White City by Erik Larson --Devil Came on Horseback by Brian Steidle --books by Amy Tan --books by Bill Bryson (current ...

I fixed this; as I suspected, separating out one edition of The Kite Runner from the rest forced it to re-calculate the work title, and it fixed itself. (Then I recombined it, of course!)

... - from the reviews I would guess that the latter has somehow overwritten The Kite Runner's entry. Is there anyway of correcting this? Ta

The Kite Runner was also a book that stayed with me long after I put the book down. I am now waiting to read A Thousand Splendid Suns. My daughter just finished this book and she tells me it's also a great read.

Full reviews of Kite Runner and all of the books below are posted! I've just gotten back from vacation, so this took some catching up, but here's the latest on my list/progress.... 49. Martian Child: A Novel About a Single Father Adopting a Son by David Gerrold I enjoyed this--it's ...

27. The Kite Runner (Papírsárkányok) by Khaled Hosseini in Hungarian

... certain audiences makes sense. I don't want my 9-year-old reading a book Herotica, nor do I want my 15-year-old to read The Kite Runner because of some of the content... for now. But some books are banned for utterly ridiculous reasons. The Giver has been challenged because it's "too ...

... 7) 65. The Giver, Lois Lowry (1993) 66. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace (1997) 67. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2003) 68. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (2006) 69. Secret History, Donna Tartt (1992) 70. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (2004) 71. The ...

F. Classics/Books I feel I need to have read. 6. Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini H. Non-U.S. Literature 8. Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini This makes seven books counting cross-categories. I picked this up because it's been regularly passed over in the last months in favor of ...

I've just finished number 48, Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, but I need more time before I write a review or even post any significant comments. I will say now that it is the most powerful book I've read in a very long time, and that it is perhaps one of the most perfectly written books ...

My daughter's Honors English Class (10th grade) has to read The Kite Runner over the summer. Sure beats some of the stuff I had to read. She's a pretty mature almost-15 year old, so I'm not adverse to her reading it. I must admit I paused for just one teeny minute when I remembered ...

... story, which focused on these two women, and their changing relationship over time, was just as well-done (I thought) as The kite runner, where the main friendship was between two boys, and most of the main characters were male. I spent some time reading a book on depression that I'd ...

... Done. H) Non-U.S. Literature... 6/8 What am I reading now? I'm about a fourth of the way through a non-U.S. lit book (Kite Runner, and about halfway through a collection of poetry (180 More: extraordinary poems for every day) and also a memoir (Dreams from my Father)--so that's three ...

For me? I read The Kite Runner and loved it. I also hated it. It was so sad... right up there with Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. I refused to read A Thousand Splendid Suns. I am sure it IS good.. but I am just not up another sad read. The Pillars of the Earth was good, in my ...

#173, 174, 176 - It's interesting because I was able to relate to A Thousand Splendid Suns more than The Kite Runner and enjoyed it more. I think maybe it was easier for me to get drawn into the story because it was told from the female perspective. It was depressing in lots of places, but I ...

YES, mrsradcliffe, The Kite Runner is one of the best books I've read this year. Yes, it's emotionaly exhausting and graphic at points, but it's also beautiful and it's a journey of self discovery and forgiveness. It's amazing. I'm dying to read A Thousand Splendid Suns, but after Kit ...

#173 mrsradclife - Do read The Kite Runner - it's one of the best books I've ever read! It was a much easier read than A Thousand Splendid Suns not nearly as depressing. I was able to relate to it much better, though both are very good.

>169 I know what you mean, I heard Khaled Hussani speak about the kite runner on the world book club recently and I don't know if I can bring myself to read it, even though I do think he writes beautifully. Some novels need to be read, although often we'd rather close our eyes to things. Difficult ...

... Afghanistan. I liked his first one much more. For some reason I was not as emotionally involved in this one as I was with The Kite Runner. Time for something light and frothy now! Full review 3.5/5 41/ ...

... Afghanistan. I liked his first one much more. For some reason I was not as emotionally involved in this one as I was with The Kite Runner. Time for something light and frothy now! Full review 3.5/5 41/ ...

... Dancing at the Edge of the World She Walks These Hills In Beauty May She Walk: Hiking the Appalachian Trail at 60 The Kite Runner Towing Jehovah Walking Across Egypt Still Pumped from Using the Mouse

Hi Thanks for the recommendation re. The Kite Runner. This has been on my book shelf since it was printed. I'll move it up on the to be read pile.

... Point on audio 6. The Witch of Goingsnake 7. New Earth 8. Wear Your Life Well(HarperCollins first look) 9. The Kite Runner 10. Owning the Olympics(from LTER) 11. Twenty Wishes (book 5 of Blossom Street) 12. The Edge 13. The Last Honest Women by Nora Roberts as ...

#35 - The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - Finished June 7, 2008 How is it that I had not read The Kite Runner until now? I'd seen it on the new books shelf when it first came out, but never picked it up. However, I read A Thousand Splendid Suns when it came out and loved it. So, when ...

... writing, and people's love of storytelling. I think Lisey's may be on my top five this year, along with Middlesex and The Kite Runner. I have gotten a couple stories read in Skeleton Crew, as well. I'm now in "Beachworld." Still stuck in Wrinkle and The Prince. Maggie's at her ...

28. The Kite Runner

... carnegie hall, particularly six to eight black men, had me ROLLING on the floor. i agree with previous poster about kite runner -- it was important to hear words pronounced in the native way. i didnt think the author was that great a reader, but the accent and pronunciation made such a ...

... sure of spelling). My next audio is the book discussion group selection for June, A thousand splendid suns. I loved The kite runner, and am looking forward to this follow-up.

... so fun, and hilarious, and it was a page-turner. It was especially great to read it after the last few books I've read, The Kite Runner, I Am Legend, and Wicked to name a few. I am going to have to pick up some more Stephanie Plum books. I wonder if all Evanovich books are ...

I just finished The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, and am emotionally exhausted. I'm dehydrated from crying. It is a rivetting, emotionally raw story of love, loyalty and redemption. It's a very powerful tale that teaches sooner or later, you must make a stand. It is one of my favorites. ...

... Bernhard Schlink 5 Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to Freedom by Sulima and Hala 6 The Kite Runner by Khaled Housseini 7 The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry by Assia Djebar 8 The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani Book Awards 1 ...

I'm new here and found this post. It sounds like such a great idea. I've never actually kept track of how many books I read a year, so this should be a fun challenge. I also "borrowed" the idea of why I chose a book from another reader because I don't always have a lot to say about the books a I ...

9) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini I really enjoyed this book, it was very moving and disturbing at the same time. I also learned quite a bit about the difficulties that occur when cultures clash.

... an Italian teacher and bookworm and this is my first message in this group. Two days ago I finished Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner and I loved it, so I look forward to reading his A Thousand Splendid Suns. I've just begun The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson: he's not so popular ...

I did like both Atonement and The Kite Runner. I couldn't abide The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield and gave up after about 20 pp - but it certainly got lots of positive hype on LT. Also thought The Memory-Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards was good but not great - she shows ...

I enjoyed The Kite Runner, but I did not think it lived up to the hype. Although I love McEwan, I didn't care for Atonement. However, I listened to the audiobook, and it may have been that I didn't like the reader (who read another book I despised, Never Let Me Go--talk about overhyped!). I ...

#43 - I cannot comment on Atonement since I have not read that one yet, but to me, The Kite Runner was definitely worth it. One of the things I truly enjoy about LT is that it has expanded my reading horizons immensely through reviews of books I might not otherwise have touched by repeatedly ...

... - am I the only one who has a hard time reading books about which there is a HUGE amount of buzz? In particular I refer to The Kite Runner and Atonement. I see these books (and a few others) talked about on LT just everywhere and seeing those names - over and over and over - makes me not ...

... read (and, I hope, enjoyed) A Thousand Splendid Suns. A few more along these lines (and I'm assuming you've read The Kite Runner, which is also brilliant) are The Hungry Tide, The Alchemy of Desire, The Bookseller of Kabul and Do They Hear You When You Cry?, though this last ...

Oliver Sacks - huh. It worked that time. Musicophilia Yep. Kite Runner Worked that time, too. Weird they didn't work in my earlier post...

... thread of grace by Mary Doria Russell 7. The gargoyle by Andrew Davidson 8. The kite runner by Khaled Hosseini YA category 1. Freak show by James St. James 2. Chinese Handcuffs by Chris Crutcher< ...

... Cezair-Thompson* 2. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory 3. The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander 4. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 5. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan* 6. Nefertiti by Michelle Moran* 7. Moloka'i by Alan Brennert 8. Pope Joan by ...

... (1st: In His Image) by James BeauSeigneur 2. 3. 4. something by M.M. Kaye, probably Far Pavilions 5. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 6. The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox 7. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See 8. something ...

... ges.amazon.com/images/P/1594489505.01._SX140_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg"> I think I liked A Thousand Splendid Suns better than The Kite Runner! I found it very difficult to put down. Now I am going to reread Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. It still makes me laugh out loud. Book ...

Just finished The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which was excellent. Next is The Kite Runner

... A "Walk" in Austin by Kinky Friedman Best Foot Forward by Joan Bauer Six Moon Dance by Sheri S. Tepper The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

I'm looking forward to: The Kite Runner and THe Other Boleyn Girl which I believe are both out in the Nov./Dec. time frame.

... too much. I'd much rather have my real emotions rather than ones manufactured by film makers. One exception might be The Kite Runner. I'd like to see this with my grandson since both he and I read and enjoyed the book. It probably would provide great conversations for us.

... browsing through last night & saw several book titles among the list. P.S. I Love You - Starring Hillary Swank, WTH? Kite Runner The Jane Austen Book Club Golden Compass Into the Wild No Country For Old Men Atonement Love in the Time of Cholera I am excited for In ...

... For example, The Swallows of Kabul set in Afghanistan by Yasmina Khadra (a.k.a. Algerian author Mohamed Moulessehoul) and Kite Runner, set in Afghanistan, by native born Afghani Khaled Hosseini... If one is looking to check off Afghanistan from their list, do both qualify? I suppose it ...

... Splendid Suns a couple days ago but have been so busy I haven't had time to sit down and enjoy it. I had trouble with The Kite Runner (I know, I know.... I'm the only one!) but I'm cautiously optimistic about this one!

... Also, her new book Gossamer is wonderful...not connected to The Giver at all, but still wonderful. Have fun with The Kite Runner. I LOVE IT! I am now reading The Bell Jar. Not sure what to think so far. I'm a huge fan of Sylvia Plath's poetry, but we'll see if the novel is ...

... 6 129 132, LOL! Luckily, I only patrol LT while my SO is at work or asleep! ;) Back to the OP: Just finished The Kite Runner. Wow. Just...wow. What a powerful, wonderful book. I must get my hands on A Thousand Splendid Suns. I'm now reading The HIstorian by Elizabeth Kosto ...

... From what I've read, the next two are nowhere near as good as The Giver. Is it worth reading them? On another note...The Kite Runner is seriously killing me. What was I thinking, reading this book while pregnant and emotional! *lol*

... places rather a bore. The ending was kind of blah too. I would probably never re-read it, but glad I did read it once. The Kite Runner I am sure has been favorably reviewed thousands of times, so I will just say that I would rate it very highly. This is one you might not want to miss. Rob ...

#80 You hated the ending? I am so sad! I thought it was a beautiful ending. The Kite Runner is devastating and beautiful.

... bad, but I wouldn't read it again. Also just finished The Giver by Lois Lowry. HATED the ending. Now I'm on to The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. I have very high expectations of this one, based on the LT reviews!

... doesn't know them yet, or why she made the quilt. 12. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini - by the author of The Kite Runner but more about the women in Afghanistan. Very powerful 13.All Souls a Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick Macdonald - who knew that one of ...

... in non-romance news, Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns is wonderful, a must-read for anyone who enjoyed The Kite Runner.

In no certain order I am Charlotte Simmons The Kite Runner A Splendid Thousand Suns My Sisters Keeper The Mermaid Chair

my nice list at the top was taking a while to load the tags so I'll keep it going here: 42. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 5/5 I liked how the story progressed. There were some huge gaps in the time line but it still flowed really well. I liked the father/son relationship I liked ...

Last week I read The Kite Runner. I liked it, I'm glad it lived up to the popular acclaim the book and author has received. I'm looking forward to reading his new book now. I started We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver. I'm finding it nice to read it one letter at a time and ...

Bought at Value Village today: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst These High, Green Hills by Jan Karon Yesterday I received Gap Creek ...

... (youth fiction) Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (SO glad to finally have this!) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (too many recommendations to put this book off any longer...lol) Uncle John's Bathroom Reader for Kids Only LOL!! Yes, a classic. T ...

The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani...really liked Caspian Rain and The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns so thought I would give this one a try.

... like I should read it as soon as possible so I can give it back to her. As it is such a large book I will also be reading The Kite Runner because I can slip it easily into my purse or bag and not get a dead arm from the weight of it!

... good. Wicked is just so different and fun, I wouldn't call it great literature, but I was quite caught up in the story. Kite Runner and Middlesex are both on my Top Ten list, excellent reads, great stories, amazing writers.

... Code, American Gods, TKaM, Hobbit, 1984) but also Pride and Prejudice, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Kite Runner, and Farenheit 451. Tane - I've got Mark Haddon's Curious Incident too, good book but I was pretty surprised how common it was.

37. Kite Runner, Hosseini one of the best this year 38. Vendetta Defense, Scottoline pleasant surprise. first time I've read this author and look forward to reading more 39. No! I don't want to join a bookclub, Virginia Ironside Bookcrossing bookring-fun read

More on The Kite Runner - AGAIN SPOILER WARNING: 78, 82, 87, 93: I'm surprised how much from this novel I've forgotten. But I seem to recall that Hassan knew, or at least it was strongly implied he knew - or maybe I just completely made that up...

Spoiler for kite runner I finished The Kite Runner yesterday and enjoyed the book. It was good and touching but unsatisfying - I did not like the ending at all - or the fact that the two boys did not find out they were brothers until the one was dead - very very unsatisying to me. I realize ...

... read before. And I'm about halfway through Renee Bernard's A Lady's Pleasure. As to non-romance, I finally read The Kite Runner and The Bookseller of Kabul, both books I've been meaning to read for a long time. And I'm about halfway through Simon Winchester's Krakatoa. Rega ...

... If I have a reading vice, its my alex delaware novels. This one was as good as ever. I'm abot 2/3 way through The kite runner and am enjoying it.

Tough question! When I was younger, it was The Princess Bride hands down. I was stunned by The Kite Runner recently. Best book I have ever read though might be A Fine Balance, which was on the Oprah Book Club (but try not to hold that against it).

In no particular order The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 1 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 2 (Is anyone tallying this? It seems to be on a lot of lists!) Mary, a novel by Janis Cooke Newman 1 A Painted House by John Grisham 1 Heat by Stuart Woods 1 Non-ficti ...

... some 2 Samuel, some 1 Chronicles, more Psalms Armageddon by Tim LaHaye Glorious Appearing by Tim LaHaye Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Please note that I am NOT some end-times nut. I picked up Left Behind and most of the others at the library bookstore for .50 each. I ...

In no particular order - The Secret River by Kate Grenville This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Spies by Michael Frayn Non-fiction The Complete Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby London in ...

#21 rubberstamper--A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner are both wonderful reads--I highly recommend them both. And no there are lots of folks who haven't read either one. Kite Runner is coming out in either Nov. or Dec. this year as a major motion picture--I will be interested to ...

Right now its a tie between A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Love both of them so much.

... adulthood and I hate the parents with a passion - I want to shake them each several times over. I will also be reading The kite runner and will report back. Bora Bora is so beautiful - and nothing complements the scenery like a good book :)

... to get through, but I am bound and determined to finish this series). I also read a chick lit type book, and just finished Kite Runner. In addition, the Left Behind books got me thinking a lot more about spiritual things and eternity. I have been praying more, reading my Bible more, and have ...

... read the Left Behind books by Tim LaHaye 1-12, Bitter is the New Black (which is hysterical), and I just finished Kite Runner which is totally unlike the others. Tonight I am going to begin The Well-Educated Mind. I'm not sure what else I will include on the list this year, but I ...

A Thousand Splendid Suns was wonderful. Although I loved Kite Runner I loved Splendid Suns more. If I were you, I would move it up on your TBR list!

Re: 1000 Suns -- I loved it. If you liked Kite Runner - I think this is every bit as good. He's a brilliant writer and the novel really put the Taliban history and some cultural pieces in place for me. Should you move it up? depends on your tastes. It was a top priority for me, everything ...

I think one reason I liked The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns is the fact that I was satisfied with the ending. Such emotional books and the endings were satisfactory.

#133. Wow. I just finished the kite runner about an hour ago. I didn't hate it. But I did want to weep uncontrollably. Just when I thought the worst possible has happened, something else horrible happens. And the end was contrived. But overall, I liked it. Not love. Not to be read again. ...

'Hate' is probably too strong a term, but I definitely felt The Kite Runner was very contrived and over-rated.

Just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns which I enjoyed a lot, but didn't bowl me over like The Kite Runner... Tomorrow I start into Arthur and George, as it were!

... All in all, I'm glad I read it. A Thousand Splendid Suns was next--a quick and wonderful read. I did, however, like Kite Runner more. Now, I'm thinking about reading A Million Little Pieces before my two book club reads.

... & georgiadawn, I absolutely loved A Thousand Splendid Suns probably one of the best books I have ever read. ALso loved The Kite Runner. I had a hard time finding a good read after Suns. I admire your reading Sense & Sensibility--its in my TBR pile but haven't tried to read it.

... list and go ahead and start A Thousand Splendid Suns to see what all the fuss is about, especially as I did really enjoy The Kite Runner.

... The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brookes, The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad, and The Kite Runner by Khaled Husseini. To Kashavarz, and others in the wider immigrant Muslim community in the West, these books foster otherness and difference. What Kasha ...

As of 0000H GMT of June 30, I have so far read 33% of the book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini .

... for the first half of the year are the following (in no particular order): -The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1) -The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2) -The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (2) -Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (2) -The Shadow of the Wind by ...

... to write my top five because I read an excellent book during this last week. My 2nd quarter choices are as follows: -The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (5/5) -The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (5/5) -Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (5/5) -The Shadow of the Wind ...

King of the Murgos by David Eddings Queen of Demons by David Drake Dark Prince by David Gemmel A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin Rise of a Merchant Prince by Raymond E Feist

... I felt the same way about A Thousand Splendid Suns--it was probably one of the best books I have ever read. I also loved The Kite Runner as well. Now I'm finding it very hard to get into a new book.

I just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns, I might even say I liked it more than The Kite Runner. It was amazing and look forward to anything else that Khaled Hosseini decides to write.

... than asian, but still brilliant - just finished reading a thousand splendid suns by khaled hosseini, the author of the kite runner. it was absolutely brilliant, i highly recommend it.

... up my classroom library with good YA lit. Now, I am reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. I loved The Kite Runner so I'm very excited about this. I also just started re-reading Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone with my son. I'm reading it to him, and he's ...

... of a 3 for 2 (buy three books pay for two) special on selected books at Borders tonight and bought The Alchemist, The Kite Runner and We need to talk about Kevin. The first two are books that I feel like everyone else has read and I living under a rock haven't yet. I haven't heard ...

... Trilogy - Sandra Gulland The Serpent Bride - Sara Douglass The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Can't actually rank them, and there are others I'd include. I seem to have had a fairly good three months of reading.

Just started Sarah by Marek Halter and a nice follow up to The Kite Runner...had to go with something totally different.

I am reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. I haven't read The Kite Runner, but other members of my book club rated it highly so I am hoping for a good read. I've just finished Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie which I thought was beautifully written.

... smith On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai The Kite Runner by Khaled Husseini

... Right now they're reading Khaled Hosseini's A thousand splendid suns and previously they read the same author's The Kite Runner. Next up on their list is The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano. I'm not implying that we're somehow "standard" book groups here in the US, but ...

... however, I was NOT impressed with the second book as I found the plot frustrating and the book depressing overall. 106. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Brutal. Heart-breaking. Good writing. Pacing could have used some work. 107. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Ugh. I need ...

... in the Novik series, Black Powder War but haven't read it yet and may not for a few days. (Edited: I also just read The Kite Runner, a brutal and heart-wretching story, so I've been hit by three "negative emotion" books in a row. I need something light-hearted for a break.

38. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, 371 pages

... another 2007 book I've read is The Reluctant Fundamentalist not necessarily YA, but might appeal to YA readers who liked The Kite Runner.

I started The Kite Runner several months ago and didn't finish it. I was very busy at the time and didn't get a chance to read much. I picked it back up yesterday. I can't believe I let this book sit for so long!

... more could a book lover want...books, authors, salons to visit with the authors, chocolate, wine...while there finished The Kite Runner and had the pleasure to hear Khaled Hosseini speak...am halfway through A Thousand Splendid Suns and love it also. Met a new author Melodie Bowsher ...

... Hosseini So far, everyone who read this book has loved. Even professional reviewers are calling it superior to The Kite Runner. I liked this book a lot, but IMHO it never equalled The Kite Runner. A Thousand Splendid Suns is the story of two women in very traditional roles in Afg ...

61. Forest Mage - Robin Hobb 62. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 63. The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova

... by Naomi Novik yesterday and just ADORED it. It's probably my favorite book so far this year. I'm about 50 pages into The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. It's alright. If it were less well written, I'd probably skip the rest from boredom.

"Trust me!" The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

... my biggest problem is that I don't actually know which countries some of my books were written in... * Afghanistan - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini * Argentina - The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara * Australia - True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey ...

... cultural information and a good sense of humor. I think it would make good follow-up reading for those of you who enjoyed The Kite Runner.

... & 121--I loved Kite Runner as well and just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns and it was amazing. I liked it better than Kite Runner if that is possible. Enjoy it when you get to read it.

From Amazon today: The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf The Perfect King: the life of Edward III - Ian Mortimer

... wrapping it. I'm sure nobody else would **ever** think of doing such a thing!) Others I have enjoyed: Fiction: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini--Afghanistan and as they end up in the US, it also fills Gatherbelle's request of seeing America through the eyes of non-Americans. ...

Finally started The Kite Runner this week and LOVE it...

I definitely agree with The Kite Runner, in part because it came out when all eyes were on Afghanistan, so it really touched a nerve. I would also argue against The Da Vinci Code because, while it's a lot of fun and it really took the world by storm, it's not well written, like Child_of_Light ...

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini because there is so much to discuss both historically and literary.

... Dead and don't have any idea how I'm going to last until the next one comes out. What do they take, a year? Next up is The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and/or Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffrey.

I snagged A Thousand Splendid Suns as well, but I haven't read it yet because I've yet to read The Kite Runner. I realize I don't have to read one to read the other, I just thought it would be polite to read them in the order they were written. I'm glad to hear all the hype is to be believed, ...

... *If I'm so into the fiction that I don't want to leave it behind, it may end up on the bus with me - recently Middlesex, The Kite Runner and Wicked barely left my sight.

The Da Vinci Code and The Kite Runner. I don't care how fascinating the plot is, I expect the book to be well written and those two are not, in my opinion. One thing that really annoys me is when the author painstakingly describes EVERYTHING, especially feelings, and even takes the trouble ...

... and I loved it. Probably in my all time top 10 books. This one will stay with me for a while. I loved his other book The Kite Runner as well and just found out it will be a major motion picture released the end of 2007. Just started Eye Contact by Cammie McGovern So far so good.

... Meyer. I am looking forward to a short road trip to Edina, MN (Minneapolis/St. Paul Metro Area) to see the author of The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini, who recently published his second book, A Thousand Splendid Suns which I haven't had the chance to read yet.

... by the same author. Khaled Hosseini. When I went to write a review for the book, A Thousand Splendid Suns it posts under The Kite Runner not under A Thousand Splendid Suns. These are 2 seperate novels. Tim is there anyway to fix this?

... A Thousand Splendid Suns is interesting so far. I've finished about 1/4 of it. The reviewers say it's better than A Kite Runner. For me, I don't think so. Hosseini's newest book is easy to read, and the topic is interesting, but The Kite Runner had themes that engaged me more. I ...

I purchased 5 books this week: Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Three Cups of Tea by G. Mortenson & D. Relin Dinarzad's Children Edited by P. Kaldas & K. Mattawa Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? by James Smith and the TBR pile ...

... changing these days, but I am always trying to get others to read such books. I think that is why I originally picked up The Kite Runner from my library when it was a newly published book and pretty much unheard of by others. I think sometimes that novels present a clearer picture of what ...

I just finished a fantastic book A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (author of THe Kite Runner which is also fantastic). Kite Runner was great, but loved A Thousand Splendid Suns more. I highly recommend both.

... Austen fan either. I can't really pick out one flaw, but I just don't find the books that entertaining. I finished The Kite Runner over lunch. It was good, but I did not love it to pieces the way some people seem to. The first half was absolutely gorgeous - each of the characters and ...

I'm starting The Kite Runner today. I really am. I swear it. I meant to start it yesterday, but my so-called bedtime reading book, When the Emperor Was Divine, was so beautiful that it wormed its way into my bag for daytime reading too.

I just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Kite Runner author.) It was probably one of the best books I've read in a very very long time. A real page turner I couldn't put down, but yet hated to see the book end. I actually liked it better than The Kite Runner (and I loved ...

It's already time for new books! By day, I'm in Afghanistan with The Kite Runner. It's too early to tell if it's as amazing as people say it is. By night, I'm in internment camps for Japanese Americans in When the Emperor Was Divine. I'm not far in, but it's beautifully written.

... can always read the archives. I'm putting my copy of this book in the mail tomorrow to share with other BookCrossers. The Kite Runner is an excellent book. I'm sure you'll really enjoy it. I had the pleasure of exchanging emails with the author long before his book was well known. I'm ...

... and I'm excited to read it. I finished off both my day book and my night book last night, so I've decided to start The Kite Runner for day reading and When the Emperor Was Divine for night time reading.

... were perhaps too high. I agree about the characterisation of Ugwu and Olanna being good. When I've finished The Kite Runner I'll return to Adichie's book which I'm 2/3rds through anyway.

... A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. I'm about 1/3 thru and it is wonderful. Just as good, if not better than The Kite Runner which is another book I absolutely loved. I highly recommend this one.

Absolutely start with The Kite Runner!

As I've only just got out The Kite Runner from my local library, how about us both starting to read it and doing a review as we go along?

Two books collected yesterday: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai Still trying to finish Half of a Yellow Sun.

... to Greenland, focusing on a plucky young woman who just can't believe her 6-year-old neighbor's death was accidental. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - I assume everyone knows what this is about. The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki - the saga of an aristocratic Japanese ...

... of the characters in Anita Diamant's The Red Tent rang true for their times. And count me among those underwhelmed by The Kite Runner. Unless it's for book club, I don't usually read bestsellers. Too many disappointments! I like to wait till the hype settles, check out this site, Amazon, ...

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls I second My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Like Water For Elephants by Sarah Gruen 20 Times a Lady by Karyn Bosnak No Second Chance by Harlan ...

I really didn't like The Kite Runner though I think it was well written. Stories where a character, especially a child, makes a decision that so strongly ruins the lives of others really disturb me. I had the same reaction with Atonement although I wouldn't say it disturbed me as much as Kite ...

I personally did not care for The Kite Runner. I read it with a book group and was not as impressed as I felt I should have been.

... how a group of women related the changing atmosphere of Iran to various western novels that were banned by the regime. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini also goes into some of the history of Afghanistan around the time that the Taliban took over.

... I am the proud new owner of: Eldest by Christopher Paolini. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. I was trying to hold off until the GreenValley Bookfair's re-opening on May 12th. I just couldn't do it. But, this time at the G ...

... Suns by Khaled Hosseini (10/10) This book had me by page 2. I couldn't put it down! Fantastic follow up to The Kite Runner. 11. Brilliance of the Moon by Lian Hearn (10/10) After this re-read, I will finally be ready for book 4. Can't wait!

... Thrity Umrigar. I noticed this is out new here in the states in paperback. While I don't think it packs the punch that The Kite Runner does, it does have a similar master-servant theme, this one from a woman's point of view. Ursula Under by Ingrid Hill. When a little girl falls ...

... is very personal. One group of books I'm thinking of are these: The Lovely Bones, The Secret Life of Bees, Gilead, The Kite Runner, Middlesex, The Time traveler's Wife, The Blind Assassin, Bel Canto. I've tagged them "Explores Aspects of Love." because they are all kind of ...

Message 60 - cathepsut - I finished The Kite Runner last night. It was a beautiful and touching story - one that will resonate with me for a long time. Glad you enjoyed it too. I am reading Life of Pi right now - about 60 pages - not sure what I think yet. =)

mrstreme, The Kite Runner good book, I really liked it! Probably the best of this year so far....

20) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

I'll probably finish up The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini this weekend, and then I'll start Life of Pi by Yann Martel.

... about the various countries in the Middle East. I often find that fiction is more realistic than the news. Such novels as The Kite Runner about Afghanistan, Snow about Turkey, and Dancing Arabs about Israeli Arabs are most enlightening besides being absolutely terrific reads. If you find ...

... Histories by Kate Atkinson 2. Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder 3. Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson 4. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 5. Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen

jonesy in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 21 Apr 2007 (Abr 25, 2007, 10:49am) ... you mention, but I did read Lost and Found recently. It was fun. Not anything as stirring or important as Life of Pi or The Kite Runner, but I enjoyed it. I'd not read a behind the scenes on a reality show book before. This week, I'm reading Life at the Dakota to continue my interest ... Irisheyz77 in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 21 Apr 2007 (Abr 25, 2007, 9:20am) #85...I read The Kite Runner a while back and loved every moment of it. It was beautifully written. I look forward to other books by that author. I just finished reading The Mephisto Club by Tess Gerritson...and have started Queen Isabella by Alison Weir. mrstreme in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 21 Apr 2007 (Abr 24, 2007, 7:18pm) It was a toss-up between Life of Pi and The Kite Runner. My son did eeny-meeny-miny-mo for me, and The Kite Runner is the winner (though, based on LT feedback, I think I couldn't lose either way). =) Atomicmutant in The Green Dragon : What nonfiction books do you own that people find odd when they discover them? (Abr 24, 2007, 9:30am) ... here don't do much reading on, say, early Christianity, or Buddhism, or star formation, or evolution. *leaves a copy of The Kite Runner out just to be friendly, on top of his copy of The Great Transformation : the Beginning of Our Religious Traditions* fuzzy_patters in 50 Book Challenge : fuzzy_patters' 50 book challenge (Abr 24, 2007, 1:17am) 19. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini- A touching, endearing story or redemption with the twist of adding to the reader's appreciation of the past thirty-five years of Afghan history. I found it to be inspiring. fuzzy_patters in Reading Globally : Where in the World Are You Now? April 2007 (Abr 23, 2007, 10:49am) I'm in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and San Francisco in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. fuzzy_patters in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 14 Apr 2007 (Abr 19, 2007, 3:53pm) I just started The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. aljazcosini in 50 Book Challenge : aljazcosini is going for 50 (Abr 17, 2007, 4:57pm) ... hustvedt 2. rot und schwarz (the red and the black) by stendhal 3. schindlers ark by thomas keneally 4. drachenläufer (kite runner) by Khaled Hosseini 5. paddy clarke by roddy doyle 6. schnee (snow) by orhan pamuk 7. midnight's children by salman ... fuzzy_patters in What Are You Reading Now? : What books are next on your reading list? (Abr 16, 2007, 3:34pm) Next on my reading list is The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. NativeRoses in The Kite Runner : Differences in Character: Amir and Baba (Abr 14, 2007, 9:39pm) Interesting question, The Kite Runner is one of my favorite books. i thought Amir's feelings about his father, when he found out that Baba had lied to him about Hassan's identity, was telling: "as it turned out, Baba and I were more alike than I'd never known." almigwin in Reading Globally : Middle Eastern Literature - Classic & Contemporary (Abr 12, 2007, 9:15pm) ... Nafisi is now in the US and has been appearing around the country as her book was a best seller. Another best seller was The Kite Runner by khaled Hosseini about a boy in Afghanistan. If you are interested in Israeli authors, I would recommend Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua and Aharon Ap ... Shortride in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 31 Mar 2007 (Abr 3, 2007, 10:39pm) 41: The Kite Runner was one of my favorite reads last year. 42: If we're talking time travel books, I also enjoyed The Time-Traveler's Wife dara85 in What Are You Reading Now? : Top Books first quarter of 2007 (Abr 2, 2007, 9:15pm) Almost everything I read in January. Heat by Stuart Woods A Painted House by John Grisham The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Mary by Janis Cooke Newman If you like historical fiction, I can't say enough good about Mary about the life of Mary Todd Lincoln. margad in Books Compared : The Middle East: Novels (Mar 23, 2007, 1:09am) ... a slender book that I read quickly, but which lingered longer than many in my memory. Then came Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, a less spare book written in a more popular style that has also stayed with me. Both books are about life under the Taliban, both are about guilt. The ... JoseBuendia in Awful Lit. : Awful Classics? (Mar 22, 2007, 3:05pm) ... anything by Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, John Updike or Philip Roth. Among more recent books, I hated The Kite Runner and The Lovely Bones. I'm still trying to like Henry James and Thomas Pynchon. Not giving up on them yet. alleycat570 in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 10 Mar 2007 (Mar 11, 2007, 8:20pm) Finished The Kite Runner the other night. I was pleasantly surprised by it; I really enjoyed it. Just started The Darling by Russell Banks yesterday. clamairy in The Green Dragon : Have you bought and books lately? Do tell! (Mar 7, 2007, 1:43pm) ... but I am afraid those rules just don't apply when it comes to buying used. I just left the grocery store with a $1 copy of The Kite Runner. I have already read it, but I wanted a copy for loaning to/forcing upon my friends and family. kdk in Gloria Stavers Reading Club : What's on Your Bedside Table? (Mar 6, 2007, 5:20pm) ... oul The Wealthy Barber Ghost Stories of Illinois A Field Guide to North American Hauntings The Red Hat Society The Kite Runner The Ocean Between Us Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest Cloak of Deception The Majesty of the the Mississippi Delta Delusions of Grandma ... alleycat570 in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 24 Feb 2007 (Fev 27, 2007, 11:50pm) ... Hula Girl Sings by Joe Meno but only got about 30 pages into it when I realized I would not be enjoying it. I started The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini last night and can already tell it is going to be much better. Life is too short to read books you don't like! Kell_Smurthwaite in Olympic Challenge : Afghanistan (Fev 24, 2007, 2:36pm) There's also Khaled Hosseini who wrote The Kite Runner, which I very much enjoyed. Kell_Smurthwaite in Olympic Challenge : Which countries? (Fev 20, 2007, 4:25pm) ... had more than one book to a country, as I've been inspired to try more. So far my list looks like this: Afghanistan - The Kite Runner by Khaled Husseini Canada - Broken by Kelley Armstrong China - Empress Orchid by Anchee Min Denmark - Hitler's Canary by Sandi Toksvig ... Windy in Awful Lit. : everyone said I should read this because??? (Fev 16, 2007, 2:47pm) #77 jmgallo, it's hard to articulate why I felt manipulated by The Kite Runner. I think the author is an accomplished wordsmith and all, but I think the book hits the reader over the head with a hammer with the rich/poor inequities. If this was a work of non-fiction, it would not have offended ... dchaikin in What Are You Reading Now? : Watershed Novels (Fev 3, 2007, 12:25am) ... among others Snow Crash - not sure why Goodbye to a River - the way I would want to write, if I ever did write The Kite Runner, Middlesex, The Time Traveler's Wife - just more favorites Windy in Awful Lit. : everyone said I should read this because??? (Fev 2, 2007, 5:04pm) ... enjoyed The Corrections but couldn't get into Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. I also felt manipulated by The Kite Runner, which made me extra angry because of the subject matter. dchaikin in What Are You Reading Now? : Your Bottom Five for 2006 (Jan 29, 2007, 4:20pm) I cringe when I see so many of my favorites are slammed here (Kite Runner, Life of Pi, My Name is Red, The Known World) and elsewhere. But, in fact, there is a lot overlap between the worsts lists and the favorites. It comes down to personal taste. You'll need to make your own decision ... dchaikin in What Are You Reading Now? : Reading Habits (Jan 29, 2007, 2:26pm) ... bunch. I still love the the memoir-like books (John Graves was another major recent discorvery), even fictionalized (The Kite Runner). So, those are the kind of books I mainly look for now. I still enjoy nonfiction, but it's come with less reward, and it is more work. I need to be very ... ariel4thou in Reading Globally : Reading through Current Events... (Jan 28, 2007, 1:50pm) What a fabulous idea for a group/topic! Oh this is going to be great fun! I share the Kite Runner experience. From Kite Runner I went to Persepolis and Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi (this also served to scratch a recent itch I've had about knowing more about graphic novels) then ... SqueakyChu in Reading Globally : Reading through Current Events... (Jan 28, 2007, 1:31pm) ... good. He has a second novel which is equally as good. It's called Let it be Morning. I also was very impressed by The Kite Runner for the mere fact that I knew very little about Afghanistan before reading Hosseini's novel. He made the protagonist so life-like that it was hard to ... Litfan in Reading Globally : Reading through Current Events... (Jan 28, 2007, 12:18pm) For me, The Kite Runner spurred an ever-increasing interest in the Middle East. It introduced me to a culture about which I know little. It also made me recognize how little I know, as an American, about the Middle East. I am sad to say that what we learn about that area of the world seems ... dara85 in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 20 January 2007 (Jan 27, 2007, 6:46pm) I am reading The Kite Runner for a book discussion. I really was not looking forward to reading it and was prepared not to like it. I love it. It so well written. JamieJM in What did YOU buy today? : If you didn't buy a book today, what was the last book you bought and when? (Jan 19, 2007, 9:34pm) I bought The Kite Runner today. I was going to buy the new Mitch Albom book, but decided against it. richardderus in What Are You Reading Now? : Your Bottom Five for 2006 (Jan 7, 2007, 12:19pm) >81, 82, 83 re: The Kite Runner: I couldn't be bothered to hate it. The book was a first novel and a fairly promising debut, but as a read I don't remember enough about it to place it on any list, pro or con. That's not a good sign. lizzier in What Are You Reading Now? : Your Bottom Five for 2006 (Jan 6, 2007, 11:33am) #81 and #82 I'm with both of you re. The kite runner. I held out reasonable hopes for it at the start of the novel, particularly because of the childhood friendship between the two boys and the ambiguous relationships with the fathers. Similarly, the scene of betrayal had an authentic ring and ... fyrefly98 in What Are You Reading Now? : Your Bottom Five for 2006 (Jan 6, 2007, 10:18am) >81 I read The Kite Runner this past year and felt the same way. It wasn't bad, and certainly didn't make my "Worst of" list, but I thought it was a pretty average first novel. I figured that all the kerfuffle about it was based on the fact that it's a unique (and current-events-appropriate) ... FicusFan in What Are You Reading Now? : Your Bottom Five for 2006 (Jan 6, 2007, 2:36am) ... on any of my lists. A more recent book that also puzzles me in terms of the positive reaction and heaps of praise is The Kite Runner. So so at best. I did read The Geographer's Library and was intrigued with the different structure of the story. I liked some of the object stories, ... Shortride in What Are You Reading Now? : Your Top Five for 2006 (Jan 6, 2007, 1:22am) ... by Claire Messud 3. A Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin 2. The Tender Bar, by J.R. Moehringer 1. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini dchaikin in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 30 Dec 2006 (Jan 2, 2007, 12:22am) ... on the "People with this book also have..." list for several of my favorite books, including The Time Traveler's Wife, The Kite Runner, Middlesex, and Life of Pi. Other than that I don't know anything about it. (edited an odd phrasing, typos, etc.) Morphidae in What Are You Reading Now? : Your Top Five for 2006 (Jan 1, 2007, 11:29am) ... Niffenegger Tied for second place are: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Kite Runner by Khaled Husseini The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (Edited for typo and for *seven dirty words bleeped* ... amandameale in Reading Globally : What fiction offers that nonfiction doesn't... (Dez 28, 2006, 7:23am) Yes to both above. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini showed me a world which I knew nothing about and might not have learned about elsewhere. And yes, the connection is with other human beings, albeit fictional ones. Also, I've recently tired of reading Australian fiction (for now). I ... krin5292 in What Are You Reading Now? : Your Top Five for 2006 (Dez 8, 2006, 8:39pm) My top 5: Superstition by David Ambrose The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Book of Flying by Keith Miller The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman neekeebee in What Are You Reading Now? : Your Top Five for 2006 (Dez 7, 2006, 7:31pm) The Kite Runner by Khaled Husseini Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Wisdom of Our Fathers by Tim Russert Girl with a Pearl Earring By Tracy Chevalier Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss monicabrandywine in What Are You Reading Now? : Your Top Five for 2006 (Dez 6, 2006, 10:46pm) The Kite Runner A Tree Grows in Brooklyn The Fellowship of the Ring Lucky The Thirteenth Tale BoPeep in What Are You Reading Now? : Help!! About Audio Books (Dez 5, 2006, 5:03pm) ... Ferdinand by Alex Kapranos (lead singer with the band; reading his own book). Meanwhile A Book At Bedtime is currently The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, read by actor Kulvinder Ghir. With a good spread of books (available via nicoletort in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 2 Dec 2006 (Dez 1, 2006, 8:36pm) Finished: -Chocolat by Joanne Harris -re-read The Kite Runner for my book club (I have last read it two summers ago) Reading: -The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night -Frankenstein for school. Disappointed so far (I've read through Chapter 10. Victor just sat down with the ... DanDanRevolution in Readers Against Struggling Through Books We Hate : How often? (Nov 14, 2006, 9:50am) ... a lot lately. The last three books I've picked up all ended in partially-read, or skimmed-through-the-last-half condition: The Kite Runner was a contrived, bumpy emotional hayride that I didn't appreciate, The Fountainhead is so painfully didactic and beat-you-over-the-head repetitive that I ... littlegeek in Book talk : Giving Up on a Book You Don't Like (Nov 8, 2006, 2:59pm) ... if nothing else recommends it and I figure out the plot on early on I'll skip ahead to see if I'm right. I stopped reading The Kite Runner for this reason. GreyHead in Book talk : Book Chain (Nov 7, 2006, 2:30pm) ... of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) - J.K. Rowling The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter 5) - J.K. Rowling ... nicoletort in Book talk : Is it me? (Nov 5, 2006, 12:31pm) ... I was discussing "adult" fiction with my friends' parents, and they were always initially surprised that I was reading The Kite Runner or A Clockwork Orange instead of The Princess Diaries, and that I could hold an intelligent conversation regarding them. Then again, I'm 16, which ... nicoletort in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 28 Oct 2006 (Out 29, 2006, 7:54pm) ... Other than that, I'm 100 pages away from finishing The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult. I'll probably start re-reading The Kite Runner for my book club meeting, since I last read it two summers ago. I never read more than one book at a time until I started LibraryThinging. Wonder why ... darklyndsea in Recommend Site Improvements : Add-books changes (Out 22, 2006, 4:43pm) I tried scanning 10 or 15 books in a row, including The Kite Runner, and they all failed to bring up any results. I made sure I was scanning the EANs, and the ISBNs brought up the right results. SqueakyChu in Can you recommend..... : Pick my next book (Out 13, 2006, 9:36pm) Be sure to post back after you finish reading The Kite Runner to let us know if you liked it. I really loved that book! I recently had the good fortune of seeing its author, Khaled Hosseini at The National Book Festival in Washington, DC. Enjoy the book! veralyn in Can you recommend..... : Pick my next book (Out 13, 2006, 8:38pm) ... anyone so soon! To keep with my original intent of not having to choose for myself, I will start with the first suggestion, The Kite Runner. I am happy to have found this site. Its nice to meet you two. Now, I'm off to read while I still have the chance. Thanks, again. SqueakyChu in Can you recommend..... : Pick my next book (Out 13, 2006, 6:01pm) I'll pick three: The Kite Runner Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Amy and Isabelle In that order! avaland in What Are You Reading Now? : Help!! About Audio Books (Out 12, 2006, 8:23pm) ... their authors. I enjoyed memoirs by Anita Hill, Madeline Albright...etc. Sometimes, it can be great for fiction also as in Kite Runner. The author's accent and pronounciation lent a dimension to the book that I'm not sure I would've gotten by reading it off the page. I mostly listened to ... avaland in Audiobooks : Audiobooks Message Board (Out 11, 2006, 2:46pm) ... my reading (and avoid NPR fund-raising). Some great ones off the top-of-my-head: the History of Love by Nicole Kraus, Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (read by the author!), True Notebooks by Mark Salzburg and Speaking Truth to Power by Anita Hill (last two also read by the authors). ... nicoletort in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 7 Oct 2006 (Out 8, 2006, 8:51pm) yhalos: My book club picked The Kite Runner unanimously for our November book. Having read it last summer, I think it's incredible how the author can create such an intense character, who you find yourself hating and rooting for all at once. yhalos in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 7 Oct 2006 (Out 8, 2006, 7:58pm) Currently readingThe Kite Runner, I must say I am enjoying it very much. I hope the ending is good, kind of sad up to now. FinishedVelocity byDean Koontz. I really enjoyed it. Would recommend it . fyrefly98 in What did YOU buy today? : What did YOU buy today? Message Board (Out 8, 2006, 9:04am) ... echer How true. Yesterday I picked up I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb, Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards, and The Mermaids Singing by Lisa Carey. Oh, and new copies of Mists of Avalon and ... SqueakyChu in Recommend Site Improvements : Swapping vs. Buying (Set 12, 2006, 10:09pm) ... funny thing is...one of the authors I "discovered" on the new book shelf of my library was Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner. No one was more surprised than I (except maybe the author himself) that the book became a runaway best seller! Perhaps because I talked it up so much? ;-) kenalex in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 9 Sep 2006 (Set 9, 2006, 2:57pm) ... Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian, a new novel from McSweeney's. Fantastic! (At least so far.) Just finished Kite Runner. I see why people like it, but wasn't really blown away. scriveners_lot in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 19 Aug 2006 (Ago 21, 2006, 9:01pm) The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini. Really quite good, provided you like stories of the human condition, told without tricks, but with honest writing, courage, and an eye to what's important. kathydaffy in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 12 Aug 2006 [8/12/06] (Ago 18, 2006, 7:21pm) ... the Night-Time. I think it was over-hyped and that probably was my problem - too many expectations. yhalos, I loved The Kite Runner and hope you enjoy it as well! Great and very moving story. yhalos in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 12 Aug 2006 [8/12/06] (Ago 18, 2006, 12:51am) I've just finished reading The Lovely Bones and enjoyed it very much. I'm about to beginThe Kite Runner for my reading group . It was highly recommeneded so I hope I enjoy it. angstrat in Book Clubs : Good discussion books (Ago 13, 2006, 7:02pm) Clamairy, I love the idea of including your daughters in book club. The Kite Runner was also a pretty good discussion book for our group, as was The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. Their Eyes Were Watching God is a great book. It was the all city selection in the city where I work. A ... clamairy in Book Clubs : Good discussion books (Ago 13, 2006, 1:31pm) ... poorly written. But we had one of our best meetings ever discussing it. Go figure. We had a pretty decent time discussing The Kite Runner, A Walk in the Woods, Their Eyes Were Watching God, East of Eden and Reading Lolita in Tehran. dchaikin in Houstonians : Houstonians Message Board (Ago 11, 2006, 2:12pm) ... It’s an example of one of the main kinds of books I’ve been reading lately… books like Middlesex, Life of Pi, the Kite Runner, Secret Life of Bees, The Time Traveler’s Wife. These are the kinds of books that sometimes show up on the Booker prize or maybe the Pulitzer Prize ... SqueakyChu in Non-Fiction Readers : Non-Fiction Readers Message Board (Ago 10, 2006, 8:42am) ... are those of the author. They're both excellent! They are fiction which read like non-fiction (in much the same way that The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini does). SheReads in What Are You Reading Now? : Audiobooks (Ago 9, 2006, 8:40am) ... to Unabridged recordings because then they are just like the books! A few of my favorites include My Sister's Keeper, The Kite Runner, The Red Tent, The Tender Bar and the Harry Potter series. I feel the narrators on these really add to the story and make it a fun and enjoyable read. ... SheReads in Audiobooks : Audiobooks Message Board (Ago 2, 2006, 11:17pm) ... out of listening to the books as reading them especially for books that have words from languages I am not familiar with; The Kite Runner, The Red Tent or when there are multiple characters narrating; My Sister's Keeper, Vanishing Acts or lots of different characters/people in book, The ... SheReads in Chick Lit : Chick Lit Message Board (Ago 2, 2006, 11:10pm) ... much out of listening to the books as reading them especially for books that have words from languages I am not familiar, The Kite Runner with and when there are multiple characters narrating, My Sister's Keeper, Vanishing Acts or lots of different characters/people, The Tender Bar. Ligações Rápidas Amazon.com (directo) Abebooks.com Google Books — A carregar... Project Gutenberg (0 edições) WorldCat Obter este livro Pesquisa Local de Livros Todas as fontes eLivros Áudio Troca 6 pago(s) 4 pago(s) 255+/255+ Capas populares (ver todas as 138 capas)   Ajuda/Perguntas Frequentes | Acerca | Privacidade/Termos | Blogue | Contacto | LibraryThing.com | APIs | WikiThing | Conhecimento Comum | 46,724,998 livros! Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc. | static: /