The Kite Runner

Recently read The Kite Runner by Khaled Housseini. This book is a few years old now but escaped me. It was on the NYT Bestseller list for over two years. Quite a feat for a first time writer. He has another book coming out, A Thousand Splendid Suns. It isn't a sequel but is also about Afghanistan.

Great book, but in a way a little predictable towards the end. Also, why does there always have to be a male rape thrown in somewhere? It's what 24 would do if they were on HBO instead of Fox (so now they just do a lot of torture since that's apparently more socially acceptable on network TV.)

Next up: Something classical. Hmm. How 'bout some Tolstoy. Death of Ivan Ilyich oughtta do it.