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I really wanted to like this book and find a touching story about friendship and loss. It proved to be yet another shallow bestseller of bad writing. It serves good as shedding a bit of light to the culture but only very little. Good intentions don't carry far if you fail to build a consistent plot with interesting and three-dimensional characters.
What irritated me most were the ridiculously convenient revelations and situations. At one point Amir was warned using cliches or something like that ...more
What irritated me most were the ridiculously convenient revelations and situations. At one point Amir was warned using cliches or something like that ...more
Who hasn't read this book yet? It was a very touching book and the first historical fiction I've read on Afghanistan. Hopefully if other Afghanistani writers come out, they will produce stories such as these. I just hope the movie is just as good.
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This book is truly the most intense book that I have ever read.
Dec 23, 2013
Michelle
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