Kite Runner
Finished “Kite Runner” about 2 weeks ago and just realized I never wrote up anything on it. Whoops!
Anyway, this was a pretty interesting book. I had seen a few people reading it and it was on the Audible.com recommendation list, so I figured I’d give it a try. It was actually quite good and interesting. I really liked the author as the narrator (if you do the audible book) and he added to the ethnic feel of the story with his easily understandable accent. This is not always the case when an author reads his own book, so it’s a fortunate bit of luck here.
It’s one of those books where I started to make plot assumptions early on, and I was surprised to find that very few of my (negative) assumptions were borne out. Hopefully this won’t give away too much of the plot, but I assumed that one of the main characters would “turn evil” and it didn’t happen. And I assumed that another of the main characters would “have something horrible happen to him”, and that was only partially correct.
The story really picked up when we jumped ahead 25 years and find the story resuming again in Afghanistan. There was a great deal of tension at that point, and the main character has an opportunity to “make things right”. Will he – for the first time in his life – make the right decisions?
