Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns

Pros: Fantastic Story Telling
Cons: None

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a beautiful story set in Afghanistan which spans the early 1970s to 2003.  The characters are rich and compelling and their stories are heart wrenching.  The novel will open one’s eyes to the horrible ...

Pros: Entertaining, educational and interesting. For woman in the middle-east, the story continues on.
Cons: A little trouble getting into a second character...that changed fairy quickly.

I was fortunate to read Khaled Hosseini's Best Selling book, The Kite Runner, last summer. That story concentrated on the life of a young Afghan boy as he grows up in turbulent times. It was an incredible read full of emotion. I found that Mr. ...

Pros: Raw emotion and power!
Cons: None at all ... unless you call being moved to tears a con!

Long before Mariam was capable of even understanding the concept, she knew she was a "harami" - illegitimate and unwanted. Her impoverished, embittered mother, rejected by the wealthy Afghani business man who had fathered Mariam, spirals downward ...

Pros: A meaningful and touching story...Thought provoking and frightening at the same time
Cons: none

While recuperating from surgery this summer I read two books that made such an impression on me I can hardly get them out of my head…both are by the same author about life in Afghanistan within the same timeframe of the last 30 years…The first, ...

Pros: Real characters, vivid writing
Cons: Sad and brutal at times

I had heard of Khaled Hosseini and his debut novel, The Kite Runner, but hadn't paid much attention. It didn't sound like something I would enjoy. Still, the praise intrigued me enough that when I was offered an advance review copy of Mr. ...

Pros: painfully true, well written, just great
Cons: can be depressing

A Thousand Splendid Suns is an immensely powerful book that will deliver a 3 megaton dose of reality. I read it simply because I had been hearing so much about it. This is a great book, that is very moving, but be prepared. It is also ...

Pros: Powerful look at women in Afghanistan.
Cons: A few "Hollywood" moments that ring a little false.

Much as in THE KITE RUNNER, A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS occasionally suffers from some fairly "high-schoolish" prose and sometimes the plot twists stretch my willingness to suspend disbelief. (Stretch...not break.) KITE RUNNER has one gigantic leap like ...

Pros: Inspirational and educational, while blatantly honest.
Cons: None!

The author of "The Kite Runner" brings us a second novel that is as sure to touch your heart as it is to help readers understand Afghan culture over the past several decades. While we in America got brief updates on the evening news, innocent people ...

Pros: emotional story in a unique setting successfully capturing strength of human spirit
Cons: somewhat wooden characters - cliche story lines and character interactions despite unique setting

I picked up this book because it seemed so very different from the crime/drama books that tend to dominate the bestseller list. At the time of my reading, a Thousand Splendid Suns was on the New York Times Bestseller List (#4). The book had a very ...

Pros: Eloquent, spellbinding novel of love and loss.
Cons: None

I fell in love with Khaled Hosseini's Kite Runner, so when A Thousand Splendid Suns was released, I ordered it immediately. Good books absorb and entertain you. Great books linger in your mind and heart long after the last page has been turned. A ...

Pros: Drew me completely into the story.  Very moving.  Learned about Afghanistan.
Cons: Characters tended to be either all-evil or saintly -- not much in-between.  Melodramatic.

This is the second novel by Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner.  I read this one first, so I can't compare the two (yet). I liked this very much.  I got pulled into the story so completely that it reminded me of the way I used ...

Pros: Very sad, depresing, heartbreaking and extremly well written.
Cons: The ending is a bit sloppy.

No work of fiction, be it film or literature, has ever caused me to feel as depressed, as extraordinarily sad and heart broken, as this book right here. A Thousand Splendid Suns is nothing short of a masterpiece, a work that will be remembered forever as ...

Pros: Amazing story that captivates the reader
Cons: None

This book is absolutely amazing. There are very few books out there that will have you absolutely mesmerized - but this is definitely one of them. I was hooked right from the first page and had trouble putting the book down until I had completed it. ...

Pros: A book that will stay with you for years, and maybe even your entire life.
Cons: The life of women in this country is awful and often hard to take.

A Thousand Splendid Suns tells the story of the lives of two women. (through over three decades of turmoil in Afghanistan) I read this book in two days, staying up late into the night each night. The stories of the two main character's Mariam and ...

Pros: Educational, exciting, a tear jurking page turner.
Cons: That there has to be a world that makes this book possible.

In “A thousand Splendid Suns,” Khaled Hosseini once again captivates his readers with historical fiction. Like “The Kite Runner” this story too is set in Afghanistan during the authors lifetime, only this time the story is from ...