holly you are quite convincing. i am ploughing through books at the moment so i should throw Shantaram into the mix.

Re Kite Runner and Thousand Splendid Suns, one of the differences for me was his use of a woman's voice/character to tell the story in TSS. i thought it gave his writing a slightly different feel and experience for the reader. i also so loved the prose and language in KR which was sometimes almost dreamy in its telling. the story of the two boys was more the focus with an overlay of the happenings of the day, where as in TSS i thought the story moved more due to the events of the times IYKWIM. such 2 splendid books - i imagine there was a bit of pressure on him to produce something that lived up to expectations after KR.

i just finished a quirky book, This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M Holmes - i loved how you never knew what was going to happen next as the story gathered more and more quirky characters and happenings. a good fun read.