Readable many times over

The last leaf of this book I turned last night--it's my fastest reading ever--3 days. And I spent most of my free time yesterday reading it.

It took almost three years--Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel The Kite Runner has been on my books-to-buy list way back when I was spending sleepless, homesick nights in Sau Paulo, Brazil--I finally found a smaller paperback (movie) version just recently.

I needn't know that the novel's film adaptation has been troubled with controversies, more than that I  really wanted to read a story on Afghans. It's a riveting story--I couldn't stop reading it--though it left me shocked and sad in between chapters much like the feeling I get reading Wladyslaw Szpilman's The Pianist which was also made into a movie.

This book made me realize how simply detached I can be to what's going on around--but after shuffling through the book again I'd say--now I know, and feel ever so lucky I'm Filipino.