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Title: The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns?
Post by: Jatt on Jun 11, 2008, 02:04: PM
Has anyone read the books The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns? They're amazing!
Title: Re: The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns?
Post by: TheGodEmperor on Jun 11, 2008, 02:32: PM
I saw the movie for the kite Runner...

On the topic of books, anybody read Ivanhoe....such an awesome book...same with the Road
Title: Re: The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns?
Post by: Fletcher on Jun 11, 2008, 02:57: PM
the kite runner was a great movie and my sister said that the book is even better than the movie! :saywhat: my favorite book that i highly reccomend is called Life of Pi. its unlike anything i've ever read.
Title: Re: The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns?
Post by: TheGodEmperor on Jun 11, 2008, 03:02: PM
I really didn't like Life of Pi...it was too preachy and it's messages weren't subtle enough for my liking.
Title: Re: The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns?
Post by: Fletcher on Jun 11, 2008, 03:04: PM
you mean it was too deep for you? complicated?
Title: Re: The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns?
Post by: TheGodEmperor on Jun 11, 2008, 03:07: PM
you mean it was too deep for you? complicated?
clearly it was too deep for you if you didn't understand my post...

Preachy: as in, he was throwing his view in our faces instead of using any artfulness or literary tecnique....he was just saying 'this is what I think' his ideas weren't bad, although not particularly new or interesting per se...it would've been better if he'd carried them across with more subtlety using allusion, imagery, symbolism, etc....the only technique that he used effectively was anthropomorphism, which I thought was quite neatly done....the humanized anmals carried an interesting message, the only one in the entire book really
Title: Re: The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns?
Post by: Fletcher on Jun 11, 2008, 03:11: PM
you mean it was too deep for you? complicated?
clearly it was too deep for you if you didn't understand my post...

Preachy: as in, he was throwing his view in our faces instead of using any artfulness or literary tecnique....he was just saying 'this is what I think' his ideas weren't bad, although not particularly new or interesting per se...it would've been better if he'd carried them across with more subtlety using allusion, imagery, symbolism, etc....the only technique that he used effectively was anthropomorphism, which I thought was quite neatly done....the humanized anmals carried an interesting message, the only one in the entire book really
sorry i didn't quite get your post before. I haven't learned unfrequent english words much. but i get what your saying. I love how those animals were actually people. it felt like to me that he was trying to get rid of the pain of his situation by adding in something he loves. it was such a remarkable story though. so much detail.
Title: Re: The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns?
Post by: TheGodEmperor on Jun 11, 2008, 03:14: PM
you mean it was too deep for you? complicated?
clearly it was too deep for you if you didn't understand my post...

Preachy: as in, he was throwing his view in our faces instead of using any artfulness or literary tecnique....he was just saying 'this is what I think' his ideas weren't bad, although not particularly new or interesting per se...it would've been better if he'd carried them across with more subtlety using allusion, imagery, symbolism, etc....the only technique that he used effectively was anthropomorphism, which I thought was quite neatly done....the humanized anmals carried an interesting message, the only one in the entire book really
sorry i didn't quite get your post before. I haven't learned unfrequent english words much. but i get what your saying. I love how those animals were actually people. it felt like to me that he was trying to get rid of the pain of his situation by adding in something he loves. it was such a remarkable story though. so much detail.
the animals weren't animals or people. They were symboliam for an idea that Martell was trying to get across....about human relationships, etc...sorry for using too much literary language there....literature and literary criticism is my major interest
Title: Re: The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns?
Post by: Fletcher on Jun 11, 2008, 03:20: PM
you mean it was too deep for you? complicated?
clearly it was too deep for you if you didn't understand my post...

Preachy: as in, he was throwing his view in our faces instead of using any artfulness or literary tecnique....he was just saying 'this is what I think' his ideas weren't bad, although not particularly new or interesting per se...it would've been better if he'd carried them across with more subtlety using allusion, imagery, symbolism, etc....the only technique that he used effectively was anthropomorphism, which I thought was quite neatly done....the humanized anmals carried an interesting message, the only one in the entire book really
sorry i didn't quite get your post before. I haven't learned unfrequent english words much. but i get what your saying. I love how those animals were actually people. it felt like to me that he was trying to get rid of the pain of his situation by adding in something he loves. it was such a remarkable story though. so much detail.
the animals weren't animals or people. They were symboliam for an idea that Martell was trying to get across....about human relationships, etc...sorry for using too much literary language there....literature and literary criticism is my major interest
ok i think you are thinking about the underlying idea and i'm thinking about the story.lol
Title: Re: The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns?
Post by: TheGodEmperor on Jun 11, 2008, 03:21: PM
glad we're on the same page  :cheers:
Title: Re: The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns?
Post by: a;sdlfkjas;df on Jun 12, 2008, 12:31: AM
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On the topic of books, anybody read Ivanhoe

19th century brit lit =   :bang:
Title: Re: The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns?
Post by: cigar omar on Jun 12, 2008, 01:34: AM
Kite Runner I read the book for school. It was one of the books in my final school exam. That gay rape part turned me off.
Title: Re: The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns?
Post by: TheGodEmperor on Jun 12, 2008, 01:27: PM
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On the topic of books, anybody read Ivanhoe

19th century brit lit =   :bang:
it's pretty awesome though....I read it when I was 9 or 10 and I reread it occasionally now

That gay rape part turned me off.
I highly doubt that  :biggrin: