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Name:	alahusker -	Reply
Subject:	Anyone read "Kite Runner?"
Date:	7/22/2009 4:37:38 PM

Good book, and Mr Hodja is mentioned often..

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	Anyone read "Kite Runner?"
Date:	7/22/2009 5:07:25 PM

Saw the movie and have heard the book is very good.

Name:	MrHodja -	Reply
Subject:	Anyone read "Kite Runner?"
Date:	7/22/2009 8:52:35 PM

Didn't know I was so infamous...unless the book refers to the real Nasreddin Hodja...:>)

Name:	alahusker -	Reply
Subject:	Anyone read "Kite Runner?"
Date:	7/22/2009 9:17:53 PM

Well this Hodja was a Mullah and predated you by a few years.. good book and the context was right on, given the little research I did via your suggestions.. . Guess I have been on a donkey a few times looking at the past.. think you would enjoy the book, given your life experience. For the rest, disturbing, given the threat..

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Anyone read "Kite Runner?"
Date:	7/22/2009 9:29:15 PM

It was an excellent book. Strangely enough, I also liked the movie.
Until I read the book, I never understood why the Taliban banned kite flying.
The author's second book was good too. About the plight of women in Afghanistan.

Name:	JustAGuy -	Reply
Subject:	Anyone read "Kite Runner?"
Date:	7/22/2009 10:06:16 PM

Hound ... I neither read the book or saw the movie ... please tell us why the Taliban banned kite flying. Thanks.

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Anyone read "Kite Runner?"
Date:	7/23/2009 8:02:30 AM

Because it is somewhat of a national pastime in Afghanistan. Something that people enjoy doing. Until I read this book, I had no idea, but remembered seeing a list of things that the Taliban had banned.

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Afghanistan
Date:	7/23/2009 11:14:23 AM

Two other books that someone might enjoy about Afganistan

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
-- after Afghanis save his life during a hiking mishap, Greg Mortenson decides to build schools in rural Afghanistan.

And

The Places in Between by Rory Stewart. About his walk across Afghanistan in 2002. He also wrote about his experiences as one of the early Western "governors" in rural Iraq in his book "The Prince of Marshes".

I'm a huge reader and I'm always grateful if anyone passes along a suggestion about a book they have enjoyed.

Name:	alahusker -	Reply
Subject:	I read it differently, not
Date:	7/23/2009 8:34:28 PM

really about Afganistan but more about amazing stuff; joy off childhood, terrible insecurity, deception, inhumanity, guilt, consequence of social collapse, and redemption.. Great read, but less we forget where the Author fled, had the opportunity to write, and now lives in relative comfort.. Mulla Hodja would have added a bit of humor to the post.. Warm regards..

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	You are Right,
Date:	7/25/2009 8:23:27 PM

of course. The writer wrote a very rich tale and his success was rightly deserved. I was surprised how closely they kept the movie to the book. That pleased me.
But, I have to say if I had not read it, I might not have read "Three Cups of Tea" or "the Places in Between".

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