The Kite Runner

[KiKi 0]

I read it and loved it, but it was very sad and left me feeling sad for a few days afterwards..

[Nizzy 1]

I had a post a while back about who was gonna see the movie. Being from Afghanistan, the stories in the book hit home because I had grown up with much of the same stories. They are true stories...and it's so sad for me to say that. Little boys being paraded about by the Taliban...in makeup and dancing...oh it angers me so much. I cried watching the movie and reading the book. With his second book, I cried so much and I wasn't even halfway through. I really wish they make a movie out of the second one.

[sara535 15]

I had a post a while back about who was gonna see the movie. Being from Afghanistan, the stories in the book hit home because I had grown up with much of the same stories. They are true stories...and it's so sad for me to say that. Little boys being paraded about by the Taliban...in makeup and dancing...oh it angers me so much. I cried watching the movie and reading the book. With his second book, I cried so much and I wasn't even halfway through. I really wish they make a movie out of the second one.

I didnt realize you were from Afghanistan, its nice to have your perspective.

I read A Thousand Splendid Suns in 24 hours and I cried for at least the last half of the book. Sometimes when new writers hit the scene and make a big splash with their first book the second book ends up being a big disappointment but in this case I actually thought the second was better. I also hope they will make a movie of it

[Nizzy 1]

I had a post a while back about who was gonna see the movie. Being from Afghanistan, the stories in the book hit home because I had grown up with much of the same stories. They are true stories...and it's so sad for me to say that. Little boys being paraded about by the Taliban...in makeup and dancing...oh it angers me so much. I cried watching the movie and reading the book. With his second book, I cried so much and I wasn't even halfway through. I really wish they make a movie out of the second one.

I didnt realize you were from Afghanistan, its nice to have your perspective.

I read A Thousand Splendid Suns in 24 hours and I cried for at least the last half of the book. Sometimes when new writers hit the scene and make a big splash with their first book the second book ends up being a big disappointment but in this case I actually thought the second was better. I also hope they will make a movie of it

Yes I agree. The second book was better than the first. I think that the stories had to be told and they were told very well. My cousin and I joke around about how we could have written those books...lol...but all joking aside...I always wanted to write a book about the stories (mostly of women and domestic violence cases/being married off at a young age)I was told and ones I witnessed. Khaled Hosseini beat me to it!

[doodlebugg 10]

I had a post a while back about who was gonna see the movie. Being from Afghanistan, the stories in the book hit home because I had grown up with much of the same stories. They are true stories...and it's so sad for me to say that. Little boys being paraded about by the Taliban...in makeup and dancing...oh it angers me so much. I cried watching the movie and reading the book. With his second book, I cried so much and I wasn't even halfway through. I really wish they make a movie out of the second one.

I didnt realize you were from Afghanistan, its nice to have your perspective.

I read A Thousand Splendid Suns in 24 hours and I cried for at least the last half of the book. Sometimes when new writers hit the scene and make a big splash with their first book the second book ends up being a big disappointment but in this case I actually thought the second was better. I also hope they will make a movie of it

Yes I agree. The second book was better than the first. I think that the stories had to be told and they were told very well. My cousin and I joke around about how we could have written those books...lol...but all joking aside...I always wanted to write a book about the stories (mostly of women and domestic violence cases/being married off at a young age)I was told and ones I witnessed. Khaled Hosseini beat me to it!

Well I think he's erupted a healthy hunger for such books so don't count yourself out just yet!

Are you serious though...they would parade young boys around like that? ####### does that have to do with Islam for God's sake?????

[Carlawarla 1]

I'm an avid reader, and have only seen a few movies made from books. The ones I have seen I've really loathed. I read the Kite Runner, and loved it. I was reluctant to see the movie, however I really enjoyed it. I thought the young boys acting were amazing. I cried during the book and the movie. Very touching.

[Nizzy 1]

I had a post a while back about who was gonna see the movie. Being from Afghanistan, the stories in the book hit home because I had grown up with much of the same stories. They are true stories...and it's so sad for me to say that. Little boys being paraded about by the Taliban...in makeup and dancing...oh it angers me so much. I cried watching the movie and reading the book. With his second book, I cried so much and I wasn't even halfway through. I really wish they make a movie out of the second one.

I didnt realize you were from Afghanistan, its nice to have your perspective.

I read A Thousand Splendid Suns in 24 hours and I cried for at least the last half of the book. Sometimes when new writers hit the scene and make a big splash with their first book the second book ends up being a big disappointment but in this case I actually thought the second was better. I also hope they will make a movie of it

Yes I agree. The second book was better than the first. I think that the stories had to be told and they were told very well. My cousin and I joke around about how we could have written those books...lol...but all joking aside...I always wanted to write a book about the stories (mostly of women and domestic violence cases/being married off at a young age)I was told and ones I witnessed. Khaled Hosseini beat me to it!

Well I think he's erupted a healthy hunger for such books so don't count yourself out just yet!

Are you serious though...they would parade young boys around like that? ####### does that have to do with Islam for God's sake?????

It has absolutely nothing to do with Islam. And I surely hope that you don't feel that this is what Islam is about. They just put this facade on to make themselves look holy and Godly in the eyes of others and then they would do this behind closed doors. But it wasn't such a big secret because everyone knew about it. It goes on even now. A lot of my relatives refuse to let their children, especially sons, out of the house due to sick perverted pedophiles. I think that is what I want to write about, pedophilia in Afghanistan. It sickens me to the core.

[almaty 19]

pedophilia..has nothing to do with religion.....it is a psychological issue of control..power and the robbing of innocents

[*JG* 2]

i've always figured anyone who can get through ulysses must be a masochist sara

and yr absolutely right that not every book has to be a literary masterpiece to have merit. i'm sure anyone who has posted here would regard some of my favorite readings in the same light that i regard kite runner. (i really liked house of sand and fog, and the last half of that book is a cliched and predictable mess)

The House of Sand and Fog is one of my favorite books and one of the few movies I actually enjoyed after reading the book first.

[MrsAmera 41]

Another good book that I've read that really goes politically and historically into Afghanistan (but in the form of a novel) is

"The Sewing Circles of Herat" by Christina Lamb. On the notion of the Taliban - most people I think have this hyped up sense of who these goons are but in reality most of them are illiterate and have very very little education. Can you imagine having someone running a country who can't even write his own name? The only sense of Islam that they know is what they've been taught by mullahs as most of them can only read the Qur'an in Arabic, a language they don't even understand so they have no clue what they're reading! It's really an interesting tale of how all of this came to be. A lot of people think that once the Russians left the Taliban took over, but in reality, when the Soviets left, the mujahadeen and other warlords for lack of a better word came in, caused a lot of chaos, disruption, then the Taliban came, and were welcomed at first. Maybe Nizzy can give a better historical background, but my point anyway is that the Taliban were illiterate, poor, and mostly peasant class of people. Another BIG issue in Afghanistan was the role of the Pakistani ISI or intelligence service, who more or less ran the American covert war in Afghanistan.