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    <body><![CDATA[I became what I am today at the age of twenty-nine, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 2008.  <br/><br/>What I am about to tell you about what I became is going to be very shocking.  It is going to manipulate your emotions.  It may include some random words in my native language for no reas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1338106">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Finished this book about a month ago but it's taken me this long to write a review about it because I have such mixed feelings about it. It was a deeply affecting novel, but mostly not in a good way. I really wanted to like it, but the more I think about what I didn't like about the book, the more i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8947952">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;For you, a thousand times over.&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;...attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;But even when he wasn't around, he was.&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9020638">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book a failure of courage and imagination -- all the more upsetting for the author's astute sense of detail and wonderful psychological depth.  But ask yourself this: if the Taliban are real human than why are they not represented as such?  No doubt we will all love the movie as well.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3470840">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i really wanted to like this novel. judging from its thousands of 'five-star reviews' hailing it as the one of the 'best books ever written,' i'm in the minority when i state that this novel, while well-intentioned, just left a little bit of sour taste in my mouth. <br/><br/>my problems with the n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12482687">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So I started Kite Runner two nights ago after finishing Blink. It took me a week or so with Blink since I wasn’t very enthralled, making it easier to put it down at night when it was my bed time.<br/><br/>Kite Runner, I started over a long weekend and could not for the life of me put it down. I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1511546">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the wake of the Fraud of Small Things, tons of Asian writers with their impossibly exotic backgrounds and compellingly interesting lives have become all the rage in the publishing world. And of course, it doesn't get more exotic than Afghanistan these days. Khalid Hosseini rides the wave for what...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/985210">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I must admit that although I had heard plenty of people mention <u>The Kite Runner</u>, I hadn’t actually paid much attention to what was said about it other than, “It was wonderful!”  <br/><br/>So, a few days ago and several years after the book came out, I heard a couple of people discussing the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22166925">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After pondering long and hard, I'm going to try now to articulate just what it was about this book that sucked so much, why it has offended me so greatly, and why its popularity has enraged me even more. This book blew so much that I've been inspired to start my own website of book reviews for non-m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22018224">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had serious issues with this book. There might be spoilers below, if you're super-picky. But I'm not going to tell you about how Amir is actually, unbeknownst to the reader, the ghost of the patron saint of Afghanistan the whole time, or anything. Oh, damn.<br/><br/>I hated the narrator's guts n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1676622">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have some criticisms for this book, but because I chewed through it in such a short amount of time, I'll start with what I like and move to the criticisms.<br/><br/>I did NOT want to like this book. I am one of those annoying people who wants to dislike what everyone else likes, and wants to lik...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12435874">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[SPOILERS AHEAD!!!<br/><br/>so, it starts off strong. it almost feels like a biography, that's how real it felt to me. i actually looked on the back of the cover to see if it was based on a true story or something. <br/><br/>one thing i noticed off the bat was hosseini's style of writing. it was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7187420">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Speechless when I'm finished this book...<br/>Cried when read Hassan's letters to Amir<br/>Adored what Hassan and Baba did to Amir<br/>Excited during my journey to Kabul<br/>Confused when I want to make a review<br/><br/>Hoalah....<br/><br/>Buku ini bikin aku nangis tengah malam, bikin aku b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22903888">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i had a little bit of a hard time getting into this book at first. i'm picky about characterization and overly sensitive to indulgent description. at first, i found the characters too one-dimensional. Baba never seemed to confront a situation that was morally complicated -- he never actually -wrestl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4615136">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I gave this book one star.  Yes it is about Afghanistan, yes it contains some interesting and even well-written scenes, but all-in-all this book is maudlin and over the top and seems to refuse to end until every imaginable soap-opera-esque turn of plot has been explored and milked of every melodrama...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1285370">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oakland Airport.  Finished my last book...what more can I say?  <br/><br/>Okay, well I feel like a real jackass because I was, honestly, feeling pretty stupid reading this, hence the disclaimer above.  It's like when I took the cover off the Da Vinci Code so nobody would know I was really reading ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6386249">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Terlalu berat peristiwa yang dialami oleh Hassan dan Amir pada usianya yang masih dini. Peristiwa yang membawa kisah persahabatan pada kenangan buruk di masa berikutnya. Terlalu berat bagi anak-anak seusia Amir untuk menjelaskan dan membuat keputusan ditengah doktrin Baba --sang ayah-- yang menekank...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27832503">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[At first I really enjoyed the book. I had heard so much about it that finally I decided to start reading it. I always enjoy books which touch on childhood subjects. I believe our childhoods shape us to be who we become as grown ups. I believer the happy, sad and difficult moments lead us to our adul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15703860">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a largely uncritical review, but I found it to be a beautiful, haunting, powerful tale. <em>The Kite Runner</em> is about a young boy, Amir, growing up in a wealthy part of Kabul, Afghanistan, the only son of a popular entrepenuer, who betrays his best friend and later has a chance to redeem himself....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6904438">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a powerful story. I didn't think I was going to like this book as much as I did... but I really did. I got so involved in this book that my emotions were going haywire. Not just feeling happy and sad as you do with most books, but feeling anxious and angry and dissappointed. Everything these ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1521895">more...</a>]]></body>
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