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The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

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Jul 07, 2025 Angie ☯ rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: shoot-for-the-stars-2025, z-quest-for-excellence-summer-2025, z-tower-teams-xi-2025

2.5 stars - rounded to 3

The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices, their lies.

This book was powerful and brutal. It has very vivid chara ...more

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Mar 17, 2023 Tina rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2023-around-the-year-in-52-books

This was a totally different world...

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Sep 09, 2020 Catherine Mulcahy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Wow what can I say!?! At first I was a little hesitant. It's not my usual genre and to be honest I got to a part of the story and was horrified. Might need a trigger warning on that book. But i persisted.

And i am so glad i did. The emotions that this book brought out in me were heavy and uncontrollable. I'm still crying. I have recommended it to my husband.

The author has done a fantastic job on this story and I'm looking forward to reading more of his works. ...more

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Sep 11, 2016 Colleen rated it it was ok

Shelves: hate-reads

I’ve been required to read this book many times in my life and I just never could get into it. Love learning about another culture through literature, am not at all anti-pop lit, want to support physician authors but... it’s just so, so cliche and the literary devices are way too obvious.

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