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The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

Start date: August 15, 2024

Finish date: August 31, 2024

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Mar 24, 2016 Krissy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: cover-color-green, audiobook, 5-motherfucking-stars, pgs-300-399, book2film

**2019Popsugar Challenge Prompt #5: A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads**

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Mar 25, 2011 Becca rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: challenge-11, favorites

I debated what to give this book as a rating. Not one or two stars. Three? It was better than three. I narrowed it down to four or five, couldn’t decide even then.

I was wandering through my college library with a list of books scribbled down on the back of an old index card. The Kite Runner wasn’t one of them. I picked out a few books on the English language, something for a paper I hate to write, then went over to the Fiction area. A few glances at the books I’d written down made me shrug and p ...more

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Apr 20, 2009 Marla rated it liked it

Shelves: with-reservations, audiobook, overrated, series, historical-fiction, adult, zz-2010, barely-finished

2.5 to 3 stars. Much too depressing and graphically violent for me.

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Feb 09, 2008 Avigail rated it it was amazing

The earth turns and the wind blows and sometimes some marvelous scrap of paper is blown against the fence for us to find. And once found, we become aware there are places out there that are both foreign and familiar. Funny what the wind brings.
And now it brings "The Kite Runner," a beautiful novel by Afghan-American Khaled Hosseini that ranks among the best-written and provocative stories of the year so far. Just a great story with wonderfully complex characters. Probably the best book I have re ...more

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Aug 22, 2007 Andria rated it it was amazing

What a powerful story. On the surface, it's about young friendship and one decision that breaks their bond. The years that follow and the political turmoil building in Afghanistan only heighten the path of Amir's life: through anger and guilt to the quest for atonement and hope for the future.

As much substance as this novel has, it was also highly accessible and easy to read. I feel like I blinked and one hundred pages were gone. ...more

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Sep 14, 2008 Christy rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction

Good book but I really wanted a stronger ending.

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Jul 02, 2008 Angela rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, winter-challenge-08-09, read-2009

Absolutely excellent!

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Aug 17, 2015 Meredith marked it as to-read

May 16, 2013 Lindy rated it liked it

Mar 23, 2008 D.G. marked it as get-from-library

Shelves: around-the-world

Dec 07, 2011 Tiffany rated it it was amazing

Dec 12, 2020 Karen D rated it really liked it

Shelves: historical-fiction, destructive-friendships, family, literary-fiction, audiobook, cultural, surprise-twist, domestic-problems, secrets, bullies