None Too Fragile

Today I finished the Kite Runner. It turned out that Amir and Hassan were brothers and somehow didn't know it. Amir goes back home to get his nephew from the Taliban. He meets Assef there, the dude that raped Hassan, and has to fight him for the kid. Assef beats the junk out of Amir but then the kid takes his slingshot and shoots Assef in the face, actually the eye I think. So, they get away and eventually go back to America where Amir and his wife adopt the kid and everything turns out great. In the end, Amir and the kid have a kite battle with a random kid, and when Amir cuts the other kid's kite, he runs after it just like Hassan used to.
I went to te library and picked up my next book called None Too Fragile. It's a biography about Pearl Jam and lead singer Eddie Vedder. Hopefully it's as good as I'm hoping, since I love Pearl Jam. I'll be starting it later today.
Random fact: I remember buying Pearl Jam's first cd, Ten, on September 11, 2001 when I was in third grade. I was actually listening to it when I found out about the Twin Towers. So for me Pearl Jam is associated with the worst day in my generation's lifetime, but oh well, I still like them alot.

the kite runner

I'm currently about 300 pages in The Kite Runner, and it's really good. The main character, Amir, watched his best friend Hassan get raped earlier in the book,so he feels really bad about himself because he did nothing about it. The desciption of the bad dude raping Hassan is graphic and shocking. I didn't expect anyone to get raped i a book I thought to be about kites. Apparently, kite running is when you battle kites in the air, someone cuts the other person's kite, and goes after the kite while it floats away. Which raises the question why don't these kids have balls to play baseball orsoccer with? I mean most of the other kids in other countries play soccer or something. But I guess flying kites is the most exciting thing to do in Afghanistan. Maybe that's why they're so angry all the time? I'm no doctor but it's an idea. Which reminds me how bad I am at flying kites. I can remember trying once with my dad to fly a homemade one. It was not fun at all. Maybe because it wasn't very windy at all, or maybe I just suck at it, but I would never get as excited about as these kids the my book do. So Amir finds out that Hassan had a son and has to go back to his hometown to save him from the Taliban. That's as far as I am right now, hopefully he gets the kid back.

A Clockwork Orange pages (50)
Kit Runner (300)

New Stuff

I am definitely not liking this website so far, or blogging in general for that matter. It took me forever to figure erverything out and I'm sure there's tons of other stuff I need figure out. Thank god I have nothing else to do today. Ohio State in playing right now, so I'm kind of half watching them and half doing this. Go bucks.
I'm about 50 pages into the Kite Runner, which is actually pretty good so far. Not exactly sure what "kite running" is yet, but hopefully they'll explain that soon. I'm not really connecting with this book so far, it's just really easy to read. I guess i can picture the super skinny Indian kids the author describes, but other than that, I've got nothing. Apparently this book is over 400 pages, so I'm not particularly looking forward to that, probably the longest book I've read so far.
Although the osu game is tied, Ohio State looks pretty good. Hopefully they can pull this one off, otherwise it'd be a huge upset. Not quite as big of a let down as Kansas though, suck it KU fans. I'm gonna go out on a limb and predict Ohio State in the final 4, with Kansas out of the way, it shouldn't be that farfetched. I guess that's a pretty good first bog. Hopefully figuring this site out gets easier.