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The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
I was wondering if there's anybody else here who read this amazing book...
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I nominated that for our book of the month this month but it didn't win. When I read about it I thought it looked really interesting so the next time I go to the bookstore I'm going to check it out.
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Yeah, I bought it while I was out, they had a buy 3 get the 4th free at Borders so I went a little crazy. I'm going to wait until I finish up a couple of the other things I'm reading right now. I'm working on The Odyssey by Homer for a class and I need to finish that, but I'm very interested in it.
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I loved this book, plus it took place near where I lived. When he was naming some of the streets in Hayward, I was like, hey I know where that is.
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I love it when books or movies are in places near where you live or visit. I live in Southern Indiana and am really close to Elizabethtown where the movie with Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst was filmed, which was cool. I was in Bath when Vanity Fair was being filmed, and I've been to France and seen most of the places in the DaVinvi Code by Dan Brown, including the Mona Lisa, which was just cool beyond words. It's just neat to be able to put places and books together. My next goal is to go to King's Cross Station and see platform 9 3/4.
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I love The Kite Runner! The language is simple but a very memorable story. This book made my head hurt because of continuous crying.
I heard that they are making a movie of this? |
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I finished the book yesterday, only took me about three days of reading, and I loved it. There is such a beautiful story inside those pages that I didn't want it to end, I was sad to actually put it down. I really like that book, and apparently he has another one about Afghanistan coming out this year.
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I LOVED THIS BOOK! it was summer reading for school. The only thing I had a problem with is it was very cliched and everything came in a full circle. Plus why didn't they get the nephew some help. If someone I cared about was like that I would want to get them help. Any thoughts?
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I think it may have been a cultural thing. In a number of middle eastern cultures (not trying to stereotype mind you, it's the more conservative ones) it's a very bad thing to acknowledge a psychological disorder. So it was probably something like that. Also, once you get help, it says that the person had a problem, and Amir probably understood what the boy was going through and knew that the problem would work itself out. I think with something like that, counseling might not have helped. He didn't seem to have psychological or behavoral problems, he was just withdrawn, shy. Besides, in modern times it scares me to go to a psychologists because so many of them try to solve every problem with medications.
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The Kite Runner
OMG i want to read that book so badly i cant find it anywhere in libraries its always out in stores i cant i've been on hold for 2 months lol :( i want to read it soo badly im going to cry can someone who read it tell me a little about it plzz it will be really helpful :)
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Hope you can find a copy soon.
I haven't read it yet, but I've heard that it's very good!  |
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This is on my to be read list. I've heard so many good things about it.
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It's really a good book. It's been about a year since I've read it but I really enjoyed it. It's more an experience than just reading a book. I liked the fact that the story was more about the emotions and experiences of a young boy living in Afghanistan instead of making some type of political statement or just talking about war. And the kite fighting that takes place in the book provide some of the most beautiful scenic descriptions I've seen in a book in a long time. I hope you can get a hold of it. You might try half.com for a cheaper, used copy of the book. I've had pretty good luck buying textbooks off that website. Just an idea.
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