Book Recommendation - One Thousand Secret Suns
 

by Khaled Hosseini

I just finished this book and have to say it is just excellent. Although it is not a happy story, it is elegantly written...I couldn't put it down.

Wrong title...One thousand SPLENDID suns.

For those unfamiliar, Hosseini is the Author of The Kite Runner.

My wife is currently reading it - I get to read it next...

I was a bit disappointed in this but that may have been because I loved kite Runner so much. While I enjoyed this book and literally read it in one day I didn't feel I learned as much as I did with Kite Runner. That may be because I actually know something about the history since I read a lot of history when I went to the pakistan/afganistan border in 1995 (we only went to the kyber pass but spent almost 10 days on the border area).

I think it would have been hard for Hosseini to match the depth and breadth of the Kite Runner -- Splendid Suns showed signs typical of second novels written by authors who put so much into their first, don't you think? I thought he really did an admirable job of crawling inside his female characters for Suns.
The Kite Runner has been made into a film -- can only hope they did it justice.

Well, I didn't read the Kite Runner (but will now). I loved the SPlendid Suns though...I thought the characters were real and the story well spun and the writing very, very good. It's been a long time since I've found a book to hold my attention...and this one did.

I loved both his books. Great characters, both beautifully written, and incredible stories.

Absolutely loved Kite Runner, found Splendid Suns tiresome and disappointing.

Kite Runner is coming out as a film in December (just delayed this week due to Paramount working on moving out the families of the Afghanistan young actors who they feel may be in danger--NY Times story today--rape scene is an issue even though nothing is explicit). I cannot envision Splendid Suns being a movie.