The Kite Runner

This wasn’t an easy book to read. Well written and structured, although I didn’t really warm to the main character at all. He was self indulgent in his self pity at times, and very wrapped up in his own head. The hardships and what happened in and around Afghanistan was brutal and heart breaking and something that I hope to never understand for myself. Essentially a story of redemption, although it didn’t really feel like that in the end, as the characters that most deserved some happiness didn’t get it. Hard reading

One of the best books I have ever read as well as a thousand spendid suns, although there were a couple of times I had to lay them down just to get my bearings. An eye opener to what other people must endure and survive.

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Heart-wrenching and extraordinary evocation of a place (Afghanistan) and its tragedies...tragedies that bring us to the very center of the human condition. Great literature!

Brilliantly written - so full of emotion and heart wrenching episodes that it really was difficut to read through the tears. If you've only seen the film, do yourself a favour and read the book - an experience difficult to forget.

This was a heartwarming sensitive story. When I read it I cried throughout the book because of the friendship, betrayal and truma that was brought into this boys life.....The struggles he went through and being forced to move to America.....Banjo

It was a wonderfu book - just could not put it down. I cannot add anything to Shirley's comment calling it a powerful book. This is one to be remembered and thought about.

This is a fantastic book on so many levels. The story of friendship, betrayal and redeption, of a childhood brutally cut short, of a country torn apart by war, of living as a foreigner in a strange, but safe, land.

It is beautifully written, is absorbing, thought provoking and informative. You will identify with the characters and live every moment, every action, every reaction with them. The depiction of the childhood friendship of Amir and Hassan is captivating and the descriptions of beautiful sections of the book, like kite flying, are set against horrors of war such as escaping from oppression in an oil tanker. It is heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time. It will pull all the emotional (kite) strings.

A truly wonderful, wonderful read.

I cried and cried after reading this story. I agree Lida... it was beautifully written it puts the plight off Afghanistan in a whole new light.

Exceptionally powerful story of one man's plight and determination to "make things good again" despite every possible, imaginable obstacle and horror which is unveiled along the way. This book churned my stomach at points and kept me up all night I was so gripped by Amir's journey. At the same time the guilt and remorse which drove him was an inspiring account of a man determined to find peace and to give back of his life in return.