The Kite Runner - To call it a creative piece of art would be an understatement!

The Kite Runner is a novel by Khaled Hosseini. Due to the small chance that Kite Runner is in fact not a novel I will state that my source was Wikipedia. A couple of weeks ago our English teacher gave us the assignment to read the entire book (324 pages, again Wikipedia since I’m not finished) which to me is considered a less than fun duty. My impression of books are: They are usually long, boring and not nearly exciting enough to get me hooked or even to make me finish the whole book. The thought of reading 324 pages in my vacation sent shivers down my spine. I am usually not a person who lets prejudices decide my impression and opinions so I decided to give it a fair chance.


The first 5 pages did not convince me it was worth reading, a lot of boring descriptions far more precise than needed, actions and situations which seemed everything but interesting and I’ve read those exact pages before. Usually I would have stopped reading the book by then but since it was a school assignment I continued my reading. To this date (12.10.2010) I am grateful for this. The Kite Runner is one of the greatest, most moving and addictive things I have ever seen, read and heard in my life. The characters, situations, dialogues and even the descriptions are touching, addictive and excellent written. You make up clear feelings and opinions on each character which immediately makes the story more captive. Khaled Hosseini takes us back to Afghanistan in the 1970s where Amir and Hassan are two friends, practically brothers and yet servant and master. In the beginning of the book you follow the two through their childhood and meet a gallery of unique characters which you grow fond of or want to kick in the groin. Amir and Hassan experiences a different childhood then we are used to here in Norway and shares some wonderful moments and some less wonderful. The person I am most impressed by and the one I care most about is definitely Hassan which through his “catch phrase” “For you, a thousand times over” and actions has stunned me. In a positive way I may add.

I am as previously stated not finished with the book, and I do realize I am a few years after the millions who have read it but if you have not. I ********** ******* (My name hidden in stars xD), a person who dislikes reading, recommend this book to the fullest and whole heartedly. Even though I have not read the whole thing I believe I can recommend it due to its magnificence. All arguments and reasons for liking this book is my opinion, you are of course entitled to feel differently. I only wanted to emphasize the fact that this is not a correct way to respond to this book or anything similar but simply my opinions and thoughts about