Alright, given all of the positive comments and the overall rating you all gave to this book, I may have to break down and read something by Hosseini. For some reason I have been resistant. I suppose I will start with the Kite Runner.hermione123 wrote:This was beautiful as expected of the author but it didn't really make me bawl like 'The Kite Runner' did. But I still loved it.
Your Rating and Overall Opinion of And the Mountains Echoed
- DickDatchery
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Re: Your Rating and Overall Opinion of And the Mountains Ech
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A lot of emotions are evoked while reading this book and people and their changing perceptions are seen. For example, while initially you might feel sympathy for a character like Idris, later on you will probably feel regret and question yourself if all that sympathy was wasted. The details of the turmoil caused by the Soviet War and the Taliban are thankfully not mentioned much here, instead the story concentrates more on the people and their lives. Although you like all the characters, none of them are given too much importance and the story moves on to the others before we actually start to get a feel of each character. My favorite though is Thelia and specially Markos's mother. There are also some characters like Adel,Gholum,who raise your curiosity I was a little disappointed with the ending cause I am a sucker for happy endings but I guess that would have been too predictable. The story ends on a positive note though and you are left feeling hopeful for all the characters specially Pari
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I would definitely recommend this book to everyone.
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Oh... My worry is that this does not live up to the Kite Runner, but then that is no easy feat.Alexavier-Taiga wrote:To be honest, this reminded be of a mixture of A tale of two cities and Annie Proulx's Wyoming Stories
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