A Thousand Splendid Suns

[Shaggy]

Just finished this book up for school. And it blew me away. As in like, one of those you get done it and are sort of changed books. Essentially it deals with women's oppression in Afghanistan during the years 1960-2003ish. And just holy shit. I've never felt so strongly for women, or hated religion so much. It focuses around two women and the pain they have to endure from an abusive husband, a totalitarian taliban regime, and just being second class citizens. It was really an eye opener. Anyone read this?

[bobapanbeers]

No, I usually read good books.

[Snoopy]

When a person claims he was "blown away" by a topic like abuse, it means that person is a silly cunt.

[Shaggy]

Originally Posted by Snoopy

When a person claims he was "blown away" by a topic like abuse, it means that person is a silly cunt.

Both of the post's to this thread so far have been fucking retarded. Either you've read the book or you haven't. The abuse isn't the abuse of the women by their husband, it's the abuse throughout the entire book. It's about how far Afghanistan fell, how much culture was destroyed by warring groups, and how Afghanistan was literally the victim of several different coups over the course of some 20 years, Ending with the Taliban, even showing the emergence of Al-Queda, and then showing the liberation by the Americans. Honestly it's a book about just seeing how a group of people somehow managed to hold their shit together in a war zone, while bombs routinely blew up neighbors and parents, sisters and brothers. It just reveals that while here at America after 9/11 we were all gung ho and saying "Nuke em all", there are just downright normal people In Afghanistan, and we would have killed a huge number of peaceful people in exchange for a few extremist idiots.

[Daily]

One of my favourite books. I could go on for hours but damn, laziness takes over.

[Chris]

they are fucking savages over there man, there are some pretty good looking afgan women.

[Snoopy]

Originally Posted by Shaggy

Both of the post's to this thread so far have been fucking retarded. Either you've read the book or you haven't. The abuse isn't the abuse of the women by their husband, it's the abuse throughout the entire book. It's about how far Afghanistan fell, how much culture was destroyed by warring groups, and how Afghanistan was literally the victim of several different coups over the course of some 20 years, Ending with the Taliban, even showing the emergence of Al-Queda, and then showing the liberation by the Americans. Honestly it's a book about just seeing how a group of people somehow managed to hold their shit together in a war zone, while bombs routinely blew up neighbors and parents, sisters and brothers. It just reveals that while here at America after 9/11 we were all gung ho and saying "Nuke em all", there are just downright normal people In Afghanistan, and we would have killed a huge number of peaceful people in exchange for a few extremist idiots.

My sentiments were true. You have to be god damn retarded to need a book to come to that conclusion.

Just imagine all the millions of other retards who haven't read the book and are still not getting common sense.

[RosettaStoned]

Just imagine all the millions of other retards who haven't read the book and are still not getting common sense.

Lol because of the irony.

Now, snoopy, stop posting dumb shit just to piss people off here. OP didn't ask for commentary, he asked if anyone else read the book.

No, I haven't, it sounds like something I would want to read right now. Plus I have a horrible habit of buying books so I'll probably pick it up.