boogalooper
Joined: 01 Dec 2008
Location: boogin around
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 Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 12:52 am |
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| Capt. Caveman wrote: |
| In the middle of The Kite Runner, which I expected to hate because of the stupid "anything that popular can't be good" axiom lodged in my brain, and I must say it is seriously the best straight-up no bullshit novel I've read in a while. |
I don't know how it ended up with you, but I found the final act (mostly everything after the father) to be incredibly banal, trite, and manipulative; this is sad because the early stuff of the book was a wonderful page-turner, especially the stuff as a kid in Afghanistan.
It gets way too difficult to suspend disbelief later on when it turns into a Mitch Albom-novel wannabe, though, and I found myself feeling betrayed for how much I had invested in the characters early on, if that makes any sense.
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