The Kite Runner is cringe

[Anonymous No.17107555]

First of all, why the fuck is there a homosexual extremist islamic German Taliban pedophile nazi in this book?

Second, every 5 pages something bad happens. There can't be a single normal person in this book, everyone has cancer or some other disease. And there is so much foreshadowing that you already know something bad is gonna happen 2 pages before it actually happens. So the book doesn't even allow you to get shocked by sudden plot twists.

Third, the author tries to sound exotic by placing random Persian words in his book. I speak Persian and literally all of those words have an English equivalent. He hasn't even lived in Afghanistan that long, so why does he act like he knows so much. He moved when he was like 11 and he was pretty rich while living there, of course the country was like heaven in his memory. He has never even seen the Taliban and the situation before they took over, so how can he project them as pure evil while he hasn't even lived under their suzerainty? This book feels like American propaganda so white people can feel better about themselves when their armies bomb the shit out of Afghanistan.

The only people who like this book are teenage girls, basedboys or people who have only read max. 5 books in their life.

Discuss what you think of this book.

[Anonymous No.17107572]

>>17107555
Why did you read it?

[Anonymous No.17107575]

>>17107572
Just wanted to know if it was good

[Anonymous No.17107701]

>>17107575
Was there anything the author did well in your opinion though?

[Anonymous No.17107823]

>>17107555
Lmao the German kid rapes this other kid because he doesn’t like that he is not ethnically pure then gives his friend who watched him get raped Mein Kampf at a birthday party, the kid is like 12 in the story

[Anonymous No.17107921]

>>17107555
HASSAN GOT RAPED

[Anonymous No.17108019]

1,000 Splendid Suns is more restrained. I enjoyed the parts of Kite Runner when him and his dad acclimate to the US but I agree the ending when he goes back to Afghanistan is quite silly.

[Anonymous No.17108261]

>>17107555
When I saw the title of that book in your post I swear to god I thought it was “the Kike Runner”

This website has ruined me...

[Anonymous No.17108419]

>>17107701
Yea, it was nice to read a story about Afghanistan I guess.

>>17108019
I felt like the dad's whole personality changed after they got to America. He was a businessman with a lot of contacts and experience, I'm pretty sure a guy like that could do better than working at a petrol station.

[Anonymous No.17108424]

>>17107555
it's an okay book but it loses it's focus and of course, the ending fucking blows

[Anonymous No.17108443]

>>17108424
This is what I've heard too, the ending is an extreme let down

[Anonymous No.17108448]

In America it’s all they read in fucking high school now, Khaled Hosseini shit books, I hate contemporary reads, they’re all shit memoirs that are pity books.

[Anonymous No.17108453]

>>17107555
>This book feels like American propaganda so white people can feel better about themselves when their armies bomb the shit out of Afghanistan.
That's what all mainstream bestsellers are, from Kite Runner to White Fragility to that recent American Border Patrol book that received controversy because the Hispanic author wasn't Hispanic enough.

[Anonymous No.17108454]

>>17108424
I only read an outline of the novel and can confirm that the ending does indeed blow

[Anonymous No.17109670]

I had to read the book in high school and the parts where the kid slits his wrists when hes like 6 and when he fights the bad guy and wins because the aforementioned 6 year old shot him in the eye with a slingshot felt like a fucking cartoon. Also the nazi kid felt like a cartoon. Also the part when the aforementioned nazi kid rapes the kid when they're both like 12 felt like a fucking bizarro scene. It felt patronizing because when we read it it felt like it was supposed to be this mature great thing but all it was was cartoonish violence and child rape, the book itself isn't mature. Totally lame.

[Anonymous No.17109686]

>>17107555
Publishing fiction isn't about being "good" at the autist /lit/ standards, it's about being able to get your average reader attached to your story long enough to finish it.

[Anonymous No.17109705]

>>17107555
>homosexual extremist islamic German Taliban pedophile nazi
Literally me

[Anonymous No.17109707]

>>17109686
Yep, this is something that many people here don't understand. Best selling fiction all have similar plot outlines which lead to a novel that's hard to put down. Most readers don't care if you have amazing prose with gorgeous poetic descriptions if your story is boring. There's a reason Sanderson is so successful despite having the blandest prose imaginable, even by his own admission

[Anonymous No.17109735]

>>17109670
The entire exposition is there to show how pathetic Amir is