The "Kite Runner" was very good, as in a way the storyline was quite unusual. However, I'd like to disagree with several comments here, as I felt "A Thousand Splendid Suns" wasn't that impressive - the situation over in Afghanistan obviously is very bad, but was the book pandering more to what a western readership wants to read? I couldn't help feeling that Hosseini was really writing more to reap in Western readers......