"The Kite Runner"
Read the book in pretty much a single sitting last night. I have to say that the book was sensitive, deeply moving and touchingly expressive, but .... but.... but ... the book is a very very sad tale with little else but tragedy and pain that binds the characters and their fates together. Central to the book is betrayal, and the guilt that follows, lingers, and eventually dissolves into the narrator.
Saddeningly, the book probably does have a lot of truth insofar as it points to the general level of suffering and atrocities that cloud Afghanistan. I guess one can only wonder how terrible things must be in reality on those barren climes and plains.
Was the book unputdownable? ... yes!
Could I have done without reading it? ... yes! The world can be a terrible place, and to be reminded of that in 300+ pages, on every page is needless, at least for me.
Read this book if you have the stomach for it. If not, you are better off being ignorant about the evil that exists in the world.
4 comments:
Heyy,
Read this book a while back- they have a movie based on the book coming out soon enough which is going to be a weepie, obviously. Interestingly you must have heard how the two kids who acted the movie were whisked away to Saudi Arabia,( was it?) after the filming in the fear of a nasty fallout of the filming of certain sections of the story in their home country of afghanistan. Very sad book in too many ways, I agree.
But there's a line where he talks about pain... or its departure...which has to be the most deceptively simple and completely elegant & true description I've ever read. For that line alone- I love this book. I ought to read the author's second book which has gotten good reviews too.
Heyy there ...
Didn't know too much about what happened with the movie... what line are you referring to?
Anyone knows how the story of Kite Runner is compared to the Osama the movie?
Has no idea there was something called 'Osama the Movie'. Haven't seen it. How're things with you?
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