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TOO GOOD TO DESCRIBE!
This is the best book I have read in years. I absolutely loved it and have tried to convince everyone I know to read it. This is a must have.
JUST PLAIN GOOD!!

A thousand times over!
Kite runner, for me, is a book that I couldn't stop turning pages of even though I felt pain in my heart, wrinkled my forehead, cringed, felt a shudder down my spine.... because inspite of all this, I had hope. Hope for all the characters and for the one smile that would prove to the be-all of this fascinating story.

Mr. Hosseini captures moments, and more importantly emotions, incredibly. He tells a heart numbing story and yet manages to cultivate feelings, in his audience, for each character. I must say though, that especially towards the end, we could do without a few characters who have no significance to the story. It's a very well written book, but not a very well edited one.

The book is a piece of fiction written on a real backdrop and as you read it, there's no denying that this could very well be an autobiography. It's written in a way that makes you believe and feel for each and every person caught in his/her battle of guilt, fear, shame, responsibility and of course redemption. And you stop for a moment and wonder, what keeps these people going? Yes, it's a book after all. You know it's going to end well. But, Hosseini doesn't just end it all happy and fixed. He ends it with hope that things will be better again.

I like the way this book brings together all the characters with a common element. The element of being good. The reason I say this is because it seems that everyone is looking for that oasis of niceness. It's part of being human. We want to do the right thing, even though we might not always make the right choices. And we get opportunities, a thousand times over!

Conventional, manipulative and obvious
If this book is so great, why is it that you can predict the next "shocking" plot twist 50 pages ahead?

Hosseini is a gifted storyteller, in the sense that his story unfolds like a vividly told morality tale: you know exactly where it's headed.

That's my biggest problem with this book.

NOTE: Stop reading if you want the plot to be a "surprise."

One third of the way into the book and you can easily figure out that the flawed main character will go back to Afghanistan, resuce the orphaned child of his best friend, adopt him and and take him back to the US, where he and his wife had been unable to conceive a child of their own.

But you still have a few hundred pages to read to get there.

Oh, and by the way, the dead best friend, he wasn't just your friend, he was your ... (Watch Chinatown, Once Upon a Time in America, read any ancient Greek tragedy, or take a wild guess.)

My next problem with the book is that the main character was too much of a sap to be believable.

What kid would watch his best friend get raped in an alley by another kid and not try to help him? What grown man would be reluctant to take in an orhpan that was his own nephew? What man would tell a fragile child who had been sold into sex slavery by an orphange that he might have to go back to another orphanage - just for a little while.

My final problem with this book, the reason I threw it in the trash as soon as I was done: cheap emotional manipulation.

The series of tragedies that take place are as ridiculously over the top as an opera. Two generations of child rape, an attempted suicide by an emotionally crippled young boy, a graphic descripton of death by stoning. The level of sorrow and brutality in a work of fiction borders on perverse. I don't understand how so many readers can call this book inspirational and hopeful. All I saw was an author abusing his readers with fictious misery.

This book will make you cry and then make you feel conned for crying.
If you want to sit in a book club and weep collectively, over a predictable and sentimental storybook, go ahead.

Great Condition
The book said it was used but looked brand new! I was very impressed. Fast shipping and great communication. Better than EBAY

HEART-RENDING
A tale of innocence, sadness and redemption that both troubles and heals the heart. You will see human nature in its starkest expression.