Wednesday, March 02, 2016

Why Haven't I Read The Kite Runner

I was just thinking about this today, I don't know why. Maybe because A Thousand Splendid Suns caught my eye on the bookshelf. I have read both A Thousand Splendid Suns and And The Mountains Echoed. Both novels were brilliant. A Thousand Splendid Suns is one of my favourite novels, I think Khaled Hosseini is an amazing author. He has only written three novels, why haven't I read his first? The Kite Runner put Hosseini on the map. I passed by it on a display table in a used bookstore!

After considering why, I think it's the "box of tears". At the end of both the novels I have read, there are these containers (boxes). In them are things that represent what has happened in the novel. All the sad, terrible, emotional things. These are things that can bring you to tears. When it showed up in And The Mountains Echoed, I might have actually said out loud, "not again!"

So, why haven't I read The Kite Runner? Because I haven't been in the mood for a cry? I just expect to cry. I expect the end to be sad. I expect to love the characters and then to have my heartbroken with some kind of loss. I just think I'm going to be sad. I don't want to know I'm going to be sad. I'll read it eventually, but I'm just going to have to work up the emotional stamina to read The Kite Runner.

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  1. Kite Runner is an emotionally brutal book, that's for sure. If I'd known rape was such a strong part of the storyline, I would have avoided it.

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    1. Ya, I'm definitely going to have to work up to reading it.

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  2. You got it so right, having to work up the emotional stamina to read this book (or others like it that are GOOD BUT OMG THE TEARS)

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    1. I'm the same with movies, when I just KNOW I'm going to cry. I have to be ready.

      Now is not the time though. I'm reading Middlemarch, then I'm thinking about jumping onto the Red Queen bandwagon.

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  3. I've read some heavy, emotional reads lately (Rosalie Lightning), and while Kite Runner fits in that description, it didn't bring me to tears. Great book though and for me, was worth the risk.

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    1. Ya, I'll get to it eventually. I just have to work up to it. Maybe the next time I see a copy on a display table somewhere.

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