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Title: Manipulative
Review: This author really knows how to stack the deck. He has also created a main character who is pretty despicable yet always seeking the reader's approval--kind of pathetic. Anyway, everyone just love love loves this book, so I decided to read it and was VERY disappointed. Hosseini is not a good writer; he perpetually tries too hard. The more gruesome plot points are calculated to make the reader feel oh-so-outraged and superior, but paradoxically are also rather prurient. The villain is a caricature and there is no plausible explanation for his sadism. I want high quality writing out of a book. In my opinion, this book failed on that score. There is some interesting information about Afghanistan and Kabul, but that was an incidental positive in the mostly negative experience of reading the book.
