Bit of a let down for me. I loved the movie (although it's been about six years since I saw it) and I loved 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' (although it's been a few years since I read it), and I thought I was going to love this but I just felt manipulated. Exploited, even. I'm sure that wasn't Hosseini's intention but it was all just a bit too hammy, a bit too melodramatic for me. Sorry, Hassan, but not a thousand times over at all. Once was enough.