recycled thoughts in sagamore hills

The Kite Runner

I realize that I'm probably the last person on the planet to read Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, but I was really, really disturbed by this book. As the Amir character observed in the text, cliche is seldom enjoyable. Bullies don't grow up to be Taliban leaders, even when they're the protagonist's childhood nemesis. Two different boys' bloody asparagii and blatantly parallel slingshot-to-the-eye scenes were too much for me. That said, I was still entralled by the description in this book. It is masterful, and showed me Afghhanistan in a way CNN has never done. The ethnic ghetto scenes were so gritty and true to what I've seen in friends' large ethnic families (the tradition; the protective, close knit community; the PhD working as a janitor; the respect shown...), and the mental workings of Amir as he buried and later dealt with his shame were incredible.

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