kite runner review

For once in my life, I finally read a book that I could not put down. Kite Runner is a story of a child named Amir whose life changed the day he ran away when his friend, Hassan, really needed him. Amir grew up feeling guilty, but seemed to show no remorse for his actions. He was in constant need of approval from his father, Baba. When Amir and his father moved to America from Afghanistan, they seemed to live a normal life, only with different standards. Baba was diagnosed with cancer, Amir got married, and there were even some infertility issues thrown into the mix.
The one thing that captured my attention was mostly the fact of how it opened my eyes to the way Afghanistan was, and how the Taliban had completely demolished it.
It was a place of beauty, happiness, and even a place where you could particiate in a kite running contest. It then turned to a fear filled "holocaust-like" area that turned women into useless beings that had no rights whatsoever, and men into cringing animals. When the Taliban rode by in their red trucks, eye contact was not allowed to be made or else you'd get the butt of a gun to the face or beaten to death. Not only was the morbid areas fascinating, but also the areas where the irony just jumped out and smacked you in the face.
Amir's friend Hassan was born with a cleft lip, and after the years of wishing that he had not run when Hassan needed him, he got into a scrap with an old "villain," and got a split in the lip that left him with a scar that resembled that of a "cleft lip." And there was another part where... well, maybe I shouldn't spoil too much for you, so go ahead and pick up a copy for yourself.