#CBR10 Review #41: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
My friend and I were talking about books recently, and she said something about how a lot of the things I had been reading lately sounded very depressing. And I sometimes ask myself why I would want to read something about someone's pain and hurt, which is a question that I can't always answer, but it often boils down to the fact that the subjects surrounding this pain is usually one of importance, or perhaps despite all the sorrow there is also a piece of hope within these stories that makes you think that maybe not everything is hopeless. I would say that The Kite Runner perhaps lacks a bit of that hopefulness in some ways, but ultimately touches on some very real, very human topics which make it fall into the category of importance through it's powerful emotions and subject matter. I can't remember much about when the book first came out, but I remember when the film adaptation was in the works, and a little piece of the controversy surrounding the safety of the a...