Have you read "The Kite Runner"?
By Rocketj1
@rocketj1 (6955)
United States
January 13, 2009 7:27am CST
I am in a book club and we have just finished "The Choice" by Nicholas Sparks (yes, I finished the book and liked the ending, still not happy with the first 2/3 of the book dragging on!)Our next selection is going to be "The Kite Runner". It was made into a movie (which I have not seen) and is supposed to be an excellent book. Has anyone here at myLot read this? Without giving anything away about the story, how did you like it?
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@spike12_ph (254)
• Philippines
13 Jan 09
I haven't read the book yet. but i saw the movie. and it was one of the movies that i really liked. i bet the book is even better.
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@spike12_ph (254)
• Philippines
17 Jan 09
yes i do, i always prefer reading books than watching movies. but life has made me really busy that i can only read a book before i go to sleep. with watching movies, i just don't have the time to go theaters because there are a lot of work to do at my office. ^_^
@deebomb (15304)
• United States
13 Jan 09
I just finished reading "the Kite Runner" not too long ago. I thought it was a good book. It is written in first person and seems to be a good portrait of some what has happened to Afghanistan over the years.It is a moving story about two boys and how their live intertwine and how an event changed the way one sees the other as they grow up. I would suggest you see the movie before reading the book because if you don't you will be disappointed in it. So much is left out of the movie but that is usual for movies that are made from books. It is Kaled Hosseini's first book and I think he did an excellent job because you would think it is more than a fictional novel.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
13 Jan 09
haven't read it but i like sparks. i'm really behinf on my reading, too much mylotting. lol
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
13 Jan 09
sounds like it's way off from what he usually writes. i hate to get a book & it be like that. i go by authord most of the time i'm pivking out books to read.
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@rocketj1 (6955)
• United States
13 Jan 09
I'm going to have to give Sparks another chance. The Choice was the one I started a discussion about. It never got going until 2/3 of the way through. It was the only one of his that I've read. I know that there are others that were made into movies and I've not seen any of those either. I'll try one of those.
This new book is about some boys in Afghanistan during the war. Completely different from Sparks, right?
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@countless (75)
• India
13 Jan 09
I have read 'The Kite Runner'. The book is awesome. It is a very sensitive story and sometimes disturbing. After reading some disturbing parts at 11.00 in the night, I was so disturbed by the story that I couldn't sleep for 1 hour even though I wanted to sleep!
