I just finished listening to this book on tape.I download books from www.audible.com onto my IPod and plug into my auxiliary MP3 in my car.I like to listen to books on my 45 minute ride to/from work.My brother calls it multi tasking, but I call it “my time”.If I listen to books on tape, it stops me from returning phone calls (hands-free) and checking my Blackberry (not).I bought this book and The Kite Runner, but wound up listening to them instead and giving away the books. I loved loved loved The Kite Runner and was so happy that I listened to it on tape because it was read by the author himself.

     I believe I felt more because it had more inner emotion in his reading than in another’s.I just finished A thousand Splendid Suns.Read by a woman, I believe because it is from a woman’s view.However, if Mr. Hosseini had read it, it would have been just as effective.This story, these characters, this book was, if possible, better then The Kite Runner.Having read them both, I have been impacted by them both.Listening to Splendid Suns on tape made it more inward more of a physical and emotional experience for me.If you had passed me on the highway, you would have seen me laughing one day, crying the next as my story unfolded.Gasping for breath and holding my own heart as I lived with the characters, I did not want it to end.Thank you, Khaled Hosseini, thank you.Below is the Amazon editor review:It’s difficult to imagine a harder first act to follow than The Kite Runner: a debut novel by an unknown writer about a country many readers knew little about that has gone on to have over four million copies in print worldwide. But when preview copies of Khaled Hosseini’s second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, started circulating at Amazon.com, readers reacted with a unanimous enthusiasm that few of us could remember seeing before. As special as The Kite Runner was, those readers said, A Thousand Splendid Suns is more so, bringing Hosseini’s compassionate storytelling and his sense of personal and national tragedy to a tale of two women that is weighted equally with despair and grave hope.We wanted to spread the word on the book as widely, and as soon, as we could. See below for an exclusive excerpt from A Thousand Splendid Suns and early reviews of the book from some of our top customer reviewers.

–The Editors.

Please read this book, or better listen to the tape.You will become it.

-dale siegel