Stunned

Sep. 4th, 2007 11:19 am
prosodic: (The Artist's Wife by Henry Lamb)
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Just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns.

Wow...just wow.

I am too stunned to put together a coherent thought on this book.

It's been a long time since I finished a book that just so completely and utterly took my breath away.

Date: 2007-09-04 02:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nordlicht.livejournal.com
now I am curious and will so look it up on amazon :)

Date: 2007-09-04 02:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] prosodic.livejournal.com
Just keep in mind if you read the reviews and book discussions (as some of them claim that the book is too depressing and brutal) that some of the reviewers obviously haven't educated themselves on what life was like for women under the Taliban.

Oooh...so sorry for them that the book wasn't happy fun time. Yes, it's disturbing. It's graphic. It's violent. It's devastating. But that, for me, gave it the dose of reality that every work of fiction needs.

Just don't read it if you're having a rough week. I'll now have to temper it with something very light-hearted.

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