The Kite Runner
Reviews
5 stars aren't enough for this book.
“For you a thousand times over” - sobs.
Painful and beautiful - tragic and devastating while also being inspiring and hopeful(?). Would like to read it again in my own time as the first time was for my A Levels English Lang&Lit course which makes me feel like I couldn’t enjoy it as much as I would’ve liked to.
This book was devastating. It exposes the very worst things about the human condition, but still manages to give you hope that people can be good. “For you, a thousand times over” 😭
devastating. loved this book though, a thousand times over.
I am left speechless. While I did see a thing or two coming - what I did not predict was the pain this would give me at certain points. Some places, you feel scared to go to the next page, terrified of the next paragraph, petrified of the next line. You come out a little hoepful, a little spent, but overall a little calmer than when you began.
this is a good book for teenagers to read in class. it is ridiculously heavyhanded and self analyzing
This book was heartbreaking the entire way through, but the ending just tied everything together so well and the writing was incredibly poetic and moving I really couldn't rate this any lower no matter how sad it made me
"For you, a thousand times over." *** I had high expectations for this book. It didn't disappoint. Not one bit. Its Goodreads rating is well deserved, if not more. Really glad to have read this book in my lifetime. This may be the best, non YA book I've ever read (!!)
For you a thousand times over.
It's written so beautifully, and I couldn't put it down, once I started to read. Also, it's as if Amir and Hassan are a part of life
Heart-breaking and very, very beautiful. It left me awed, wondering how writing could achieve and create something as amazing as this. Two days is all it took for me to finish this book, despite my best efforts to read as slowly as possible. Very highly recommended. One of the books that just make you feel immensely.
This is one of the first books I remember LOVING. Need to read again.
I found this book particularly hard to read, but I am glad I finished it. I feel like I have learned so much about Afghan culture and traditions (although this book is not a history lesson of course). I am glad I read this novel!
extremely disheartened by the author's political views.
I had never read a story set in Afghanistan before. It showed me a lot of the country and its people. Also, the narrative about the two boys, whose destinies are strikingly different, deeply moved me.
What an emotional roller-coaster!
it was an excellent book that brought me to tears...
One the best books I have read in awhile, I was hesitant to read this book at first because a friend had told me this had pages and pages of meaningless in detail descriptions that were useless to the plot . But I am happy to report they were quite wrong. While this book is full of vivid images they were balanced out by a interesting plotline.I do have to that the real action happens a few chapters into the book and it does absolutly pull at your heartstrings...ah I am not the type to cry reading books but this book left me tearing up at times. Hassan and Amir's friendship is precious and beautiful to witness and it was very upsetting when all didn't turn out as planned. There were one or two inaccuracies in the book but they were easily overlooked as this book I have to say is a must read.
Have just finished this book and I wholeheartedly agree. It was a little more contrived and at times frustratingly predictable at key plot turns, but the central motifs and the beautiful characterisation and essence of goodness overcame these minor quibbles. It took my time getting to this book for a great many reasons and now that I have finally read it. This book moved me. I was somewhat blind going into this read, unaware of the content of the story and the true depths of anguish I was about to dive into.
Hosseini was able to pluck heart strings of emotion that I had thought silent and stolid. The themes of loyalty, friendship, devotion countered with betrayal, animosity and selfishness were plaintive notes played out in a literary orchestra of human sentiment.
Beautifully written and told with compassion, empathy and with a skilled writer's eye for detail and expression, this can also be a painful book to read. Not for everyone, but for those who can endure what is at times heartbreaking the reward is as magnificent as is this work.
Can't wait to watch the movie next. Hassan was a reminder of the attractiveness of purity and the parallels with Lord were hard to miss.
“"For you, a thousand times over"
' For you, A thousand times over... ' Khalied Hosseini just brought the emotions of friendship so precisely on the pages of this novel that you wont put down this novel while reading. It is worth to read the novel. Hosseini is an epic story-teller. Before reading the book, I was just touching outforms words ' The Kite Runner' on the cover. After reading it, while touching these words I can feel the emotions that novel has. So touched by the book. Must read.
Very fast paced in comparison with the book, but that's nothing unexpected.
The book that got me into reading. A masterpiece.
as expected from hosseini, the writing is beautiful. he has a way of bringing you in with the main character's journey. devastating book but it falls flat in some areas.
Stunning. Devastating. Unforgettable.
Highlights
“For you, a thousand times over,”
FUCKING SHIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTT
I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
I wanted to pull him close, hold him, tell him the world had been unkind to him, not the other way around.
i cried...
it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime, Amir,”
“For you a thousand times over!”
FOREVER QUOTING THIS
“Remember, Amir agha. There’s no monster, just a beautiful day.”
And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
Baba and I lived in the same house, but in different spheres of existence. Kites were the one paper- thin slice of intersection between those spheres.
“Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.
And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words.
Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name.
People say that eyes are windows to the soul. Never was that more true than with Ali, who could only reveal himself through his eyes.
For you, a thousand times over.
"...the noor of my eyes"
the light of his life, very important to him– from the dedication section
Ein Dozent eines Kurses für Kreatives Schreiben an der San Jose State University hatte einmal über Klischees gesagt: »Meiden Sie sie wie die Pest.« Und lachte dann über seinen eigenen Witz. Der Kurs stimmte mit ein, aber ich fand schon immer, dass Klischees zu Unrecht kritisiert wurden; denn oft treffen sie den Nagel auf den Kopf. Doch die Tauglichkeit einer abgedroschenen Redensart wird überschattet von ihrer Wahrnehmung als Klischee. Zum Bei-
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