After reading Hosseini’s other book, ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’, this was a huge disappointment. The story line was not nearly as engrossing, the characters not very deep, and didn’t give you nearly such a good outline of the history. With ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’, I felt like I cared about the characters, and was concerned about what would happen to them, but not so here.

The events which are supposed to be emotional and sentimental do not bring these feelings to the reader. In fact, I found that little happens in the story, and it is quite boring. This especially goes for the end. I don’t want to give the end away to people who haven’t read it, so I will just say that the narrator makes a big deal of nothing. I can only assume that it is supposed to be open ended, but really… still nothing has happened.

I really don’t know why such a fuss was made over this book. I guess it was because the story is set mainly in Afghanistan, and had ‘shocking’ occurrences. Oh, well, it did nothing for me.

I personally hated it.

For one thing, the main character made you hate him. Cowardly, selfish, stupid and downright mean.

I enjoyed the history in The Kite Runner, and that was the books saving grace, but the resolution at the end isn’t even a resolution. THAT is how the main character found redemption for his past?

It’s not a long book but it took me a long time to get through this because I didn’t want to read it. I’d heard it was oh so good and I know there are plenty of people who like it, but I have certainly read many other, way way better books than this.

The poster below me says “cliched and boring.” That’s a very good way of putting it.

What is all the fuss about? Can you say cliche and boring? If this book wasn’t about Afghanistan, no one would read this…overrated.

Fast read, interesting way to get some glossed over history, but predictable and over the top resolution to the story. Did the author write this book with the movie already in mind…hoping to hit it big? Still, worth your time to read over a lazy if you want to be able to provide an alternate perspective to all the hype.