Nikki (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} nikkimisplaced) wrote,@ 2008-08-06 14:29:00 |
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Khaled Hosseini
I just finished reading The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini and would like to take a few lines to recommend these books to everyone! I won't talk about the story so much as it's too special for me to try and summarise or talk up, just how reading these books has affected me.
The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
I’m not a huge reader, I wish I was but between work and sleep I find I have too little time for all the things I want to do.
That said I was recommended The Kite Runner by my mum and I wanted to see the film and thought I should settle down and read the book first.
I think it was the first book that I haven’t wanted to put down in ages. I can’t describe how reading it made me feel, it was more than just a story, it was a whole lifetime in which my view on so many things has changed and I feel the story lives in me, as a part of my memories, as real as those memories of my past.
Having enjoyed this book so much and actually mourned reaching the end I went straight out to get A Thousand Splendid Suns, thinking I could never like this book as much. I put off reading it for about 2 weeks because I knew once I started I wouldn’t stop!
I started yesterday, it was dead quiet at work and I thought how great it would be to help the day fly, and boy it did once I started reading. I deliberately didn’t take the book home with me as I knew I would eat or sleep, so I had a restless evening in which all I wanted to do was drive to work to get my book! Once I arrived at work this morning I wasted no time in getting into it.
A Thousand Splendid Suns hit me more than the Kite Runner, I don’t know if it’s because the lead characters are woman or if I am more familiar with the world it’s set in so the atrocities are more real in my mind. But I had to go and walk around the car park twice with tears streaming down my face.
Again upon finishing it I feel heartbroken. I keep re-living scenes in my head so clear it’s amazing that from just my first read I know it so well.
So this is a short word from me saying read these books! It will change you, and in a really good way. It’s an experience, not just a good read!!
