THE KITE RUNNER (audiobook) by Khaled Hosseni
Published by Simon and Schuster Audio in 2003.
Read by the author, Khaled Hosseni.
Duration: 12 hours, 1 minute.
Unabridged.
This book was published about 20 years ago and I just got around to reading it. This is not an uncommon thing for me - I did the same with the Harry Potter books and The Handmaid's Tale, also. I was motivated to read this for the same reason I was motivated to read The Handmaid's Tale - it was permanently placed on a banned book list in Idaho in May of 2022.
Read by the author, Khaled Hosseni.
Duration: 12 hours, 1 minute.
Unabridged.
This book was published about 20 years ago and I just got around to reading it. This is not an uncommon thing for me - I did the same with the Harry Potter books and The Handmaid's Tale, also. I was motivated to read this for the same reason I was motivated to read The Handmaid's Tale - it was permanently placed on a banned book list in Idaho in May of 2022.
There are three parts to the story. The first part is a long description of the life of Amir, a boy who is growing up in Afghanistan in the 1970s. Amir had his problems, but he had a pretty decent life. He and his father fled to the United States when the chaos think of as "Afghanistan" began - the Communist Revolution of 1978.
The second part of the book is the story of how Amir and his father adapt to life in the United States, including the re-building of an Afghan community in California.
The third part of the book is Amir dealing with a great offense that he committed against his best friend when he was a young man as he heads back to Afghanistan.
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For years and years, I have been hearing how amazing this book is. It is very hard to live up to almost 20 years of hype. This is a good book (I rate it 4 out of 5 stars), but not an amazing book. It was a first book for Hosseni and it shows first book problems like pacing issues. The first part is very slow and Amir's mental self-flagellation happens so often that it gets old. I wanted to scream at Amir to do something about it or just shut up about it.
Bottom line - it is a good book, but not an amazing one. It can be found on Amazon.com here: THE KITE RUNNER by Khaled Hosseni.
Here is a link to an article about books banned in Florida schools during the 2023-2024 school year. It is a ridiculously long list. Here are other schools that have banned this book: Click here.
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| The author, Khaled Hosseni |
The third part of the book is Amir dealing with a great offense that he committed against his best friend when he was a young man as he heads back to Afghanistan.
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For years and years, I have been hearing how amazing this book is. It is very hard to live up to almost 20 years of hype. This is a good book (I rate it 4 out of 5 stars), but not an amazing book. It was a first book for Hosseni and it shows first book problems like pacing issues. The first part is very slow and Amir's mental self-flagellation happens so often that it gets old. I wanted to scream at Amir to do something about it or just shut up about it.
Bottom line - it is a good book, but not an amazing one. It can be found on Amazon.com here: THE KITE RUNNER by Khaled Hosseni.
Here is a link to an article about books banned in Florida schools during the 2023-2024 school year. It is a ridiculously long list. Here are other schools that have banned this book: Click here.
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