Is anyone reading "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

I'm reading it aloud to my wife. Beautifully written novel that's being made into a movie.

Note: I've been reading aloud to my wife since we married 25+ years ago. Try it sometime. It really makes reading into a different experience.

[pitohui]

1. no spoilers please -- we can compare notes soon tho! :-)

i think it's already a movie, i thought i saw the box in the video store, but i don't wanna know anything about it until i have read the book, which i will probably be starting tomorrow

[GenDem]

2. I read the book last winter and loved it...

but would have enjoyed it so much more if my husband read it to me.

Years ago...I read "The Bridges of Madison County" to my spouse. Very sappy book, but fun to read out loud.:thumbsup:

[babylonsister]

3. Do a search in this forum and you'll find quite a few folks who have

read it. And I think it's incredible that you read to your wife! :thumbsup:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Well, it gives me a chance to display my talent for accents.

Having grown up with an Irish grandmother's brogue, her daughters' (my mother and aunts) English accents, and my father's Arkansas drawl, they come easy to me.

Some other's I've read to her include "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina". Both took months of enjoyable reading and convinced me that Tolstoy deserves the title of "Greatest Novelist".

[spindrifter]

4. I thought it was a spectacularly good book.

Hosseini was supposed to have another book out--I thought during this past year--but something must have delayed it. When I checked his website a while back there was no mention of the second book. What a disappointment!
Another great read-aloud is Shadow of the Wind. You will find several comments from DUers in the Fiction group.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. Thanks, I'll check it out.

[yellowdogintexas]

7. I absolutely loved this book. It is just remarkable

I hear the author is the reader on the audio version.

Movie is in the works, I hear.

[donheld]

8. One of the most wonderful books ever n/t

[Lex]

9. Here's some prior threads on The Kite Runner from this forum:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=208&topic_id=4260

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=208&topic_id=9558

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=208&topic_id=5257


Just in case you want to read through those threads too.

The Kite Runner was fantastic, imho!

:hi:

[pitohui]

10. ok i loved this book but by far the first part was best

the part of the book up to and including where he learns the truth about his family that we readers already suspect but our hero doesn't (i hope that is circuitous enough to avoid spoiling) -- that is the best -- very atmospheric, a picture is painted with words

the last part of the book to my mind just a tad too much coincidence and action/adventure

it reads toward the end like someone had an eye toward selling a screenplay and it brought me out of the story some

but i would definitely recommend it and look for others by this author

[jonnyblitz]

11. that book haunted me for a few weeks after I read it.

I am glad to hear it is being made into a movie.

[LisaM]

12. Liked it, didn't love it

and there was definitely a falling off of quality near the end - as if he raced to finish it, after having the beginning planned for years.