× Register Login What's New! Contact us
Page 1 of 2 1 2 Last
Results 1 to 20 of 37 visibility 5476

The Kite Runner

  1. #1
    imaad_udeen's Avatar Full Member
    brightness_1
    Full Member
    star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate
    Join Date
    May 2005
    Location
    USA
    Religion
    Unspecified
    Posts
    497
    Threads
    22
    Rep Power
    119
    Rep Ratio
    10
    Likes Ratio
    1

    The Kite Runner

    Report bad ads?

    Has anyone read this novel by an Afghan writer?

    I have, thus far, only read 140 pages or so, but it's a beautiful novel so far. One of the best I have read in years.

    I strongly reccomend it.

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...607700-1240940
    The Kite Runner

    -Imaad Udeen Abdul al-Majeed

    had3 1 - The Kite Runner
    chat Quote

  2. Report bad ads?
  3. #2
    Batoota's Avatar Full Member
    brightness_1
    Full Member
    star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate
    Join Date
    Jun 2005
    Location
    UAE
    Religion
    Unspecified
    Posts
    240
    Threads
    13
    Rep Power
    119
    Rep Ratio
    25
    Likes Ratio
    0

    Re: The Kite Runner



    Sounds fascinating! As I don't trust ordering online (for some reason :confused: ), i'll insha Allah wait for it to appear in the bookstores or libraries

    Jazak Allah koli khair,

    :sister:
    The Kite Runner


    Inna lilahee wa inna ilayhee rajoun!
    chat Quote

  4. #3
    aminahjaan's Avatar Full Member
    brightness_1
    Full Member
    star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate
    Join Date
    Dec 2007
    Location
    America
    Gender
    Female
    Religion
    Islam
    Posts
    286
    Threads
    21
    Rep Power
    103
    Rep Ratio
    69
    Likes Ratio
    1

    The Kite Runner

    I recently finished "The Kite Runner" By Khaled Hosseini. I really liked it and there's actually a movie, but I saw the cast & stuff, they didn't look anything as I'd pictured them. Except for Sorraya, and that's about it. And Assef was supposed to be german or whatever, and he looked Afghani. Anyways, aside from the movie, if you have read it post what you think about it, and if you haven't I recommend it. Oh and by the way, if you have seen the movie, what do you think about it because I don't know whether it's worth seeing in theaters or not.

    chat Quote

  5. #4
    aminahjaan's Avatar Full Member
    brightness_1
    Full Member
    star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate
    Join Date
    Dec 2007
    Location
    America
    Gender
    Female
    Religion
    Islam
    Posts
    286
    Threads
    21
    Rep Power
    103
    Rep Ratio
    69
    Likes Ratio
    1

    Re: The Kite Runner

    yeah aminahgorilla you rock!!!!!!
    chat Quote

  6. Report bad ads?
  7. #5
    BlackMamba's Avatar Full Member
    brightness_1
    IB Senior Member
    star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate
    Join Date
    Sep 2007
    Location
    cyberspace
    Gender
    Male
    Religion
    Islam
    Posts
    771
    Threads
    17
    Rep Power
    107
    Rep Ratio
    54
    Likes Ratio
    3

    Re: The Kite Runner

    O ya Kite runner was actually a real good book. I read it last summer it almost made me cry lol it was so sad. but ya its an awesome book
    chat Quote

  8. #6
    snakelegs's Avatar Full Member
    brightness_1
    IB Oldskool
    star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate
    Join Date
    Feb 2006
    Location
    California
    Religion
    Unspecified
    Posts
    5,742
    Threads
    110
    Rep Power
    133
    Rep Ratio
    51
    Likes Ratio
    1

    Re: The Kite Runner

    it was recommended to me by a pashtun friend. i liked the book very much - it was very moving.
    i haven't decided whether or not i should support the movie because of all the controversy around it - also, i'm not too crazy about movies.
    but i'd be curious if anyone has seen it.
    The Kite Runner

    each man thinks of his own fleas as gazelles
    question authority
    image06 1 - The Kite Runner
    chat Quote

  9. #7
    Muezzin's Avatar Jewel of IB
    brightness_1
    Bat-Mod
    star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate
    Join Date
    Jun 2005
    Gender
    Male
    Religion
    Islam
    Posts
    10,763
    Threads
    180
    Rep Power
    162
    Rep Ratio
    63
    Likes Ratio
    8

    Re: The Kite Runner

    I certainly know what to look for in Waterstone's during the Christmas sales...
    chat Quote

  10. #8
    crayon's Avatar
    brightness_1
    subhanAllah
    star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate
    Join Date
    Dec 2007
    Gender
    Female
    Religion
    Islam
    Posts
    3,238
    Threads
    102
    Rep Power
    127
    Rep Ratio
    131
    Likes Ratio
    1

    Re: The Kite Runner

    Brilliant book, loved it.

    I didn't even know there was a movie until just now.
    What's the controversy about?
    Last edited by crayon; 12-24-2007 at 03:02 PM.
    The Kite Runner

    alhamdullilah.
    chat Quote

  11. #9
    chacha_jalebi's Avatar Full Member
    brightness_1
    IB Oldtimer
    star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate
    Join Date
    Apr 2006
    Location
    Ambala Boxes :(
    Gender
    Male
    Religion
    Islam
    Posts
    3,857
    Threads
    214
    Rep Power
    134
    Rep Ratio
    98
    Likes Ratio
    1

    Re: The Kite Runner

    although i havent read the book, i only read the back

    but it still sounds good, the movie will probably be goood aswell
    The Kite Runner

    Jaa-Ro-Nee-Mo!!!


    "they ask you when will the help of Allah (swt) come! Certainly Allah (Swt) help is always near"

    Surah al Baqarah v214



    SMILE
    chat Quote

  12. Report bad ads?
  13. #10
    aminahjaan's Avatar Full Member
    brightness_1
    Full Member
    star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate
    Join Date
    Dec 2007
    Location
    America
    Gender
    Female
    Religion
    Islam
    Posts
    286
    Threads
    21
    Rep Power
    103
    Rep Ratio
    69
    Likes Ratio
    1

    Re: The Kite Runner

    yeah and a thousand splendid suns was a really good book, and my brother and I are gonna see kite runner today, it was only in limited theaters before but now its everywhere. Khaled Hosseini should've waited till the book got more popular so more people could fund the movie, and have more of a hype about it....ah well.
    chat Quote

  14. #11
    snakelegs's Avatar Full Member
    brightness_1
    IB Oldskool
    star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate
    Join Date
    Feb 2006
    Location
    California
    Religion
    Unspecified
    Posts
    5,742
    Threads
    110
    Rep Power
    133
    Rep Ratio
    51
    Likes Ratio
    1

    Re: The Kite Runner

    format_quote Originally Posted by crayon View Post
    Brilliant book, loved it.

    I didn't even know there was a movie until just now.
    What's the controversy about?
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6992751.stm

    the kids are now out of afghanistan so the movie has been released (later than planned).

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7132331.stm

    i have mixed feelings about seeing it.
    i also recommend thousand splendid suns.
    The Kite Runner

    each man thinks of his own fleas as gazelles
    question authority
    image06 1 - The Kite Runner
    chat Quote

  15. #12
    The Ruler's Avatar Full Member
    brightness_1
    star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate
    Join Date
    Mar 2005
    Location
    Cadavers.
    Gender
    Female
    Religion
    Islam
    Posts
    7,146
    Threads
    72
    Rep Power
    146
    Rep Ratio
    55
    Likes Ratio
    1

    Re: The Kite Runner



    format_quote Originally Posted by Muezzin View Post
    I certainly know what to look for in Waterstone's during the Christmas sales...
    And what to buy with my £10 coupon. Hah.

    I'm weighing up the odds of the movie being better than the book. Hmmm...

    The Kite Runner


    chat Quote

  16. #13
    crayon's Avatar
    brightness_1
    subhanAllah
    star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate
    Join Date
    Dec 2007
    Gender
    Female
    Religion
    Islam
    Posts
    3,238
    Threads
    102
    Rep Power
    127
    Rep Ratio
    131
    Likes Ratio
    1

    Re: The Kite Runner

    Movies are never better than books.
    It's like a law or something, I'm sure.
    The Kite Runner

    alhamdullilah.
    chat Quote

  17. #14
    The Ruler's Avatar Full Member
    brightness_1
    star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate
    Join Date
    Mar 2005
    Location
    Cadavers.
    Gender
    Female
    Religion
    Islam
    Posts
    7,146
    Threads
    72
    Rep Power
    146
    Rep Ratio
    55
    Likes Ratio
    1

    Re: The Kite Runner

    format_quote Originally Posted by snakelegs View Post
    i also recommend thousand splendid suns.
    I've read that and found it rather too fairy-tale like. You know? The 'living-happily-ever-after-*awww-like-mimi*' type? (:-P)
    The Kite Runner


    chat Quote

  18. Report bad ads?
  19. #15
    aminahjaan's Avatar Full Member
    brightness_1
    Full Member
    star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate
    Join Date
    Dec 2007
    Location
    America
    Gender
    Female
    Religion
    Islam
    Posts
    286
    Threads
    21
    Rep Power
    103
    Rep Ratio
    69
    Likes Ratio
    1

    Re: The Kite Runner

    yeah its fairy taleish but kiterunner beats it anyday
    chat Quote

  20. #16
    Hafswa's Avatar Full Member
    brightness_1
    Full Member
    star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate
    Join Date
    Oct 2008
    Gender
    Female
    Religion
    Islam
    Posts
    148
    Threads
    13
    Rep Power
    98
    Rep Ratio
    57
    Likes Ratio
    0

    The Kite Runner....must read

    Just finished reading a very interesting book and wanted to recommend it to all the novel readers on this forum. The title is The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini .....here is a review from the New York times:

    THE KITE RUNNER
    By Khaled Hosseini.


    THIS powerful first novel, by an Afghan physician now living in California, tells a story of fierce cruelty and fierce yet redeeming love. Both transform the life of Amir, Khaled Hosseini's privileged young narrator, who comes of age during the last peaceful days of the monarchy, just before his country's revolution and its invasion by Russian forces.

    But political events, even as dramatic as the ones that are presented in ''The Kite Runner,'' are only a part of this story. A more personal plot, arising from Amir's close friendship with Hassan, the son of his father's servant, turns out to be the thread that ties the book together. The fragility of this relationship, symbolized by the kites the boys fly together, is tested as they watch their old way of life disappear.

    Amir is served breakfast every morning by Hassan; then he is driven to school in the gleaming family Mustang while his friend stays home to clean the house. Yet Hassan bears Amir no resentment and is, in fact, a loyal companion to the lonely boy, whose mother is dead and whose father, a rich businessman, is often preoccupied. Hassan protects the sensitive Amir from sadistic neighborhood bullies; in turn, Amir fascinates Hassan by reading him heroic Afghan folk tales. Then, during a kite-flying tournament that should be the triumph of Amir's young life, Hassan is brutalized by some upper-class teenagers. Amir's failure to defend his friend will haunt him for the rest of his life.

    Hosseini's depiction of pre-revolutionary Afghanistan is rich in warmth and humor but also tense with the friction between the nation's different ethnic groups. Amir's father, or Baba, personifies all that is reckless, courageous and arrogant in his dominant Pashtun tribe. He loves nothing better than watching the Afghan national pastime, buzkashi, in which galloping horsemen bloody one another as they compete to spear the carcass of a goat. Yet he is generous and tolerant enough to respect his son's artistic yearnings and to treat the lowly Hassan with great kindness, even arranging for an operation to mend the child's harelip.

    As civil war begins to ravage the country, the teenage Amir and his father must flee for their lives. In California, Baba works at a gas station to put his son through school; on weekends he sells secondhand goods at swap meets. Here too Hosseini provides lively descriptions, showing former professors and doctors socializing as they haggle with their customers over black velvet portraits of Elvis.

    Despite their poverty, these exiled Afghans manage to keep alive their ancient standards of honor and pride. And even as Amir grows to manhood, settling comfortably into America and a happy marriage, his past shame continues to haunt him. He worries about Hassan and wonders what has happened to him back in Afghanistan.

    The novel's canvas turns dark when Hosseini describes the suffering of his country under the tyranny of the Taliban, whom Amir encounters when he finally returns home, hoping to help Hassan and his family. The final third of the book is full of haunting images: a man, desperate to feed his children, trying to sell his artificial leg in the market; an adulterous couple stoned to death in a stadium during the halftime of a football match; a rouged young boy forced into prostitution, dancing the sort of steps once performed by an organ grinder's monkey.

    When Amir meets his old nemesis, now a powerful Taliban official, the book descends into some plot twists better suited to a folk tale than a modern novel. But in the end we're won over by Amir's compassion and his determination to atone for his youthful cowardice.

    In ''The Kite Runner,'' Khaled Hosseini gives us a vivid and engaging story that reminds us how long his people have been struggling to triumph over the forces of violence -- forces that continue to threaten them even today.
    chat Quote

  21. #17
    sevgi's Avatar Full Member
    brightness_1
    IB Oldtimer
    star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate
    Join Date
    Jun 2006
    Location
    On Stage
    Religion
    Unspecified
    Posts
    1,833
    Threads
    51
    Rep Power
    118
    Rep Ratio
    65
    Likes Ratio
    1

    Re: The Kite Runner....must read

    Omg, this review ruins the whole book. It tells all that happens...
    The Kite Runner

    "'Cause I hear the whispered words
    In your masterpiece beautiful
    You speak the unspeakable through
    I love you too"
    chat Quote

  22. #18
    Hafswa's Avatar Full Member
    brightness_1
    Full Member
    star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate
    Join Date
    Oct 2008
    Gender
    Female
    Religion
    Islam
    Posts
    148
    Threads
    13
    Rep Power
    98
    Rep Ratio
    57
    Likes Ratio
    0

    Re: The Kite Runner....must read

    format_quote Originally Posted by sevgi View Post
    Omg, this review ruins the whole book. It tells all that happens...
    Sort of.....but it doesn't capure the intensity of the writers words.. Its amazing how you are there with him through the whole story.....extraordinary I must say.
    chat Quote

  23. #19
    sevgi's Avatar Full Member
    brightness_1
    IB Oldtimer
    star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate
    Join Date
    Jun 2006
    Location
    On Stage
    Religion
    Unspecified
    Posts
    1,833
    Threads
    51
    Rep Power
    118
    Rep Ratio
    65
    Likes Ratio
    1

    Re: The Kite Runner....must read

    format_quote Originally Posted by Hafswa View Post
    Sort of.....but it doesn't capure the intensity of the writers words.. Its amazing how you are there with him through the whole story.....extraordinary I must say.
    Yeah it was a very nice read. I cried loads.
    The Kite Runner

    "'Cause I hear the whispered words
    In your masterpiece beautiful
    You speak the unspeakable through
    I love you too"
    chat Quote

  24. Report bad ads?
  25. #20
    Hafswa's Avatar Full Member
    brightness_1
    Full Member
    star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate star_rate
    Join Date
    Oct 2008
    Gender
    Female
    Religion
    Islam
    Posts
    148
    Threads
    13
    Rep Power
    98
    Rep Ratio
    57
    Likes Ratio
    0

    Re: The Kite Runner....must read

    .....akhi I thought I was the only who did...
    chat Quote


  26. Hide
Page 1 of 2 1 2 Last
Hey there! The Kite Runner Looks like you're enjoying the discussion, but you're not signed up for an account.

When you create an account, we remember exactly what you've read, so you always come right back where you left off. You also get notifications, here and via email, whenever new posts are made. And you can like posts and share your thoughts. The Kite Runner
Sign Up

Similar Threads

  1. The Kite Runner
    By A'râf in forum Creative Writing & Art
    Replies: 15
    Last Post: 07-24-2010, 04:45 PM
  2. Anybody seen the movie "The Kite Runner"?
    By Italianguy in forum General
    Replies: 8
    Last Post: 12-13-2009, 05:29 AM
  3. Runner dies after London Marathon
    By mohammed farah in forum General
    Replies: 1
    Last Post: 04-24-2007, 07:04 AM

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  
create