"The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

I was excited to read this novel. I had heard great things about it. It spend time as the #1 New York Times Bestseller. It was OK

Things I didn't enjoy:
A. The writing style seemed juvenile. Not uneducated but aimed towards teens.
B. I felt the plot unfolding ahead of me. I like to be surprised.
C. I never yearned to pick the book up again. I read it because it was a quick read and I was semi-interested but I was not enthralled. Felt very 'Dan Brown'
D. The central Character. Eliana's mother pointed this out as the singular reason she was unable to continue reading the book and it rang true for me as well.

Things I did like:
A. The author sprinkled vocabulary in the book in such a way that made it easy to follow and easy to remember that most dialogue was in a different language than my own.
B. The way relationships changed through revelations throughout the book.
C. The descriptive way the author described many beautiful things about the country, culture and traditions of Afghanistan. I feel as though I have a deeper understanding of what the country was like and what it yearns to be once more.

I may read his other book 'A thousand splendid suns' (something like that) but I will not seek it out.