I just finished reading **A Thousand Splendid Suns** by **Khaled Hosseini,** started and completed in less than a day because I simply could not put it down. This was the first book in *years* that has made me gasp, jump up from my seat, read rigidly with anxiety. Genuinely this book has me fucked up. The suicide? The lies about Tariq dying? Jalil coming to see Mariam? The kids? Murdering the POS husband? The execution???
There’s something about the writing, the plot, the realness of the characters and the complexities of their stories that drew me in and kept me hostage. The death and life, the karma, the back and forth of stories and rules and expectations rattled me. I had to stop myself from skipping over words because I was so engrossed with the book. Part of me wants to read it again and begin to break down things I’m sure I missed, analyze every detail given, get to know each person again. Part of me never wants to read again. I know Khaled Hosseini has other works, but I can’t imagine anything topping this, or even comparing. For the last seven years of my life I’ve had the same favorite book, the same comforts and desires in reading, and A Thousand Splendid Suns has changed it.
How am I meant to continue reading after experiencing this? Maybe the pain of the book is worth going through again. Who knows!
by thneedery22
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Khaled Hosseini did an AMA here [you might want to take a look](http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1snjj3/this_is_khaled_hosseini_author_of_the_kite_runner/) 🙂 [Here’s a link to all of our upcoming AMAs](http://www.reddit.com/r/books/wiki/amafullschedule)
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Read it in school. I recall it being kind mid. But books hit people differently. Just read more and you will likely top it.
I remember getting to the part where she reads the letter and just SOBBING. So tragic. Loved it though!