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i hadn't read a good book in a long time, not since i read The Alchemist, until i read The Kite Runner. someone recommended it to me a long time ago, but i never got down to reading it. now that i have, i must say that it hasn't disappointed me at all. and it's not those kinda 'good books' that really piss you off because you have to read it with a dictionary next to you. TKR uses vocabulary and sentence structures that are so easy even primary school children could read it. but it's still so wonderful because the author weaves this simple language into such a nice read, i don't think anything i say will do it enough justice.

for instance, i'm a rather impatient person, and thus reader, so i tend to skip descriptions when i read novels so that i can get on with the story. but with TKR, i found myself reading every single word in the book, savouring it. the author describes the scenes so vividly i could imagine the scene unfolding in my head. and another thing about this book is that everytime you think things have settled down, you flip the page and suddenly something completely unexpected has happened! and then you're sitting on the edge of your seat once again, your head buried in the book, unable to put it down.

the book basically revolves around the life of a boy named Amir, his relationships, his fears, his betrayal and his redemption.

i hear there was a movie made based on this novel. i've never liked movies made based on novels. they rob you of your imagination really. right now, after reading the book, i have imagined Amir's house in Kabul in my head, imagined Amir, Hassan, Baba and all the other characters, and watching the movie might just spoil what i'd imagined.

like the time i watched Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. After reading the book, i had imagined the Oompa Loompas in my head, and the Oompa Loompas in the movie didn't even come close to what i had imagined. it was disappointing because after a while, i had forgotten the Oompa Loompas i had imagined earlier, and now only those ugly dwarves in the movie pop up in my head when anyone talks about Oompa Loompas. you know what i mean? and ironically, it was the Oompa Loompas who sang this about television:

It rots the senses in the head!
It kills imagination dead!
It clogs and clutters up the mind!
It makes a child so dull and blind
He can no longer understand
A fantasy, a fairyland!

okay i know you must be thinking Oompa Loompas? what a rotten example. but oh well x) just trying to bring a point across!

but anyway, i still love The Catcher in the Rye more than any other book in the world. and now i really really want to read A Thousand Splendid Suns! does anyone have it??

and now moving away completely from books and stuff, i've just realised that the Secret Santa thing is so difficult! i have no idea what to get her =( how now brown cow?

not that i'm racist or anything haha so you can give me suggestions even if you're not brown. or not a cow.

actually on second thought i'd prefer it if you weren't a cow. i don't think i'd like advice from a cow.

and all this talk abt Secret Santa reminds me!


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