Rating: 
Summary: Strong start, slow finish
Review: The positives -
The book is extremely well written and has magnificent flow. The first 150 pages are gripping and the book is difficult to put down.
The negatives -
Towards the middle of the book, the story starts to drudge. I also didn't like the fact that the ending becomes apparent in the middle of the book. There are a few twists (which are mostly hokey), but this book starts fast and crawls towards the finish line.
After the first 150 pages, I thought I would recommend it to everyone, but after the last 200 pages, I would only say it is on-par with most things out there.
Rating: 
Summary: Wow!
Review: This book is absolutely riviting. It is one of the best books I have ever read. The characters will stay with me long after the book has been put down.
Rating:
Summary: Go fly this novel
Review: Very few books have moved me like THE KITE RUNNER - it is a gripping and finely crafted novel, deserving of every ounce of praise received so far. This novel is heartbreaking, yet hopeful, and emotional riveting - at times I swelled with happiness and a page later I fought back tears. The only other book that moved me this way was THE BARK OF THE DOGWOOD by Jackson McCrae, but then that's a novel like no other. KITE ia an important book that follows Afghanistan through it's many facades in the past 3 decades, full of great historical context and detail, giving insight to a country that we only know from the Soviet occupation in the 80s and the Taliban after that - a country that before these regimes, was beautiful and full of promise and prosperity.This is a book not soon to leave my memory - buy it and read it immediately. It is refreshing in it's uniqueness and gripping in it's beautiful voice. An absolute achievement for a debut novel - let's hope this is only the beginning for Khaled Hosseini.
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