A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS - your thoughts please

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MaryAnnSingleton · 25/02/2008 13:58

ok, so my book group is doing this at the momen t and I'm slowly getting through it ( not much time to read atm)
my friends have finished it and rate it highly - it's ok so far,in my opinion - what do you think ?

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MaryAnnSingleton · 25/02/2008 14:11

I probably haven't read deeply enough into it - in terms of pages as well as content etc - but I don't feel particularly moved or affected by it, which is what's bothering me ( and I weep at The Choir on tv with ease) -

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MorocconOil · 25/02/2008 14:08

I read it from cover to cover in 5 hours, as I couldn't put it down. It was so sad and disturbing. I couldn't get the bit where she has to leave her daughter at the children's home out of my head. Also found the treatment of women in Afghanistani society truly disturbing.

I thought it was better than the Kite Runner.

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MaryAnnSingleton · 25/02/2008 14:07

have done The Kite Runner btw - didn't rate it as highly as everyone else seemed to - am obviously missing something somewhere !

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MaryAnnSingleton · 25/02/2008 14:06

haven't got to Laila and Mariam being together yet...did ypou find it predictable (I'm thinking of the early bit where Mariam gets married,then is preg then loses baby) /

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yehudiwho · 25/02/2008 14:03

just finished it for book club . i read it incredibly quickly- cried but found it strangly unsatisfying- i wanted more about the relationship between Laila and Mariam

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