If you despise this book, I understand why. 
 What? Someone who likes the book understands my hatred? I can't believe it! This never happens! 
 Let me explain myself: I have seen quite a variation of reviews about this book. I cursory-glanced over them to see what people who really enjoyed the book had to say, and, of course, the antithesis of that. 
 I enjoyed the book, for the most part, and so I don't need to link you to another positive review. However, if you'd like to see what a radical, disproving reader said, a perfect example can be found here and here. 
 I read both of these angry reviews, and, the funny thing is... especially in the second review... I found that I agreed. I agreed with most of the criticism that they gave it. Most of it. 
 There's a lot of unnecessary culture relation: Yes. 
 The foreshadowing is overly copious: Yes. 
 Hosseini probably wrote this wishing he had been a little more like Amir in later life: Yes. 
 Hosseini is probably getting millions off of what he wished was true: Yes. 
 What these two people dislike about the book... I liked about it. I was talking to a friend of mine about it and he expressed profusely that he disliked the book: Amir is a coward, Amir is evil, Amir deserves to die. I don't like him, therefore I don't care what happens to him. 
 What I realized during this argument (as well as when I read the other reviews) is that all of these things, each and every one, is true. It all actually happened: Amir does suck. 
 The difference between our opinions? I liked the fact that he was worthless. Said friend, as is obvious, hated that fact. 
 The same is true for my opinions vs. these people's reviews. I liked these things, they hated them. 
 -Unnecessary culture relation: Indeed, he explains aptly about the workings of Afghanistan. Everyone knows everything about everyone else, and, if that's not so, everything about their relations. This is very likely untrue. However, I've never been to Afghanistan and therefore I cannot know, I just automatically assume as an American. However, I also live in a small city in a rather tight-knit county, and so I know something about knowing a lot of people. I see it every day, even if I'm not partaking in it. I may be too socially inept to know a whole lot of people, but some friends and acquaintances of mine do, in fact, know a lot of people. 
 This isn't to say that if you put them and a random person into a room, they'd find out how they're related. No, it doesn't work that way here. However, I can understand a rather tight-knit community, and somehow I feel like it's real in the story. While the logical half of my mind it contradicting me, the imaginative half is insisting that it may be true. Even if it's not true, it might be, and that's enough to have me imagine. The fact that it's a recurring theme, mentioned almost too often, is slightly annoying. Then again, it should be understood that in the overall scheme of things, it was a minor inaccuracy. 
 -Over-Foreshadowing: I admit to this one, too. It's true, foreshadowing happens a lot in this book, and it's almost too obvious that things are going to happen. Then again, this overshadowing appeals, at least partially, to me. Maybe this is an unfair view on things and I should try to relate to the more general audience, but does anyone get the same satisfaction as I do when they're forced to guess what's going to happen... and it turns out that you're right? Sometimes, even, I was wrong... but I was close. That's an even better feeling, the I-was-almost-right sense of achievement. Maybe I'm one of the only people who think this way, and it's probably a selfish view that abandons what usually looks like a bad thing for my own satisfaction at being right, but that's the kind of person I am, and that's how I think. 
 -Hosseini probably wrote this based on what he wishes were true: Of course he did. Is there any author that doesn't wish they were like their main character? Any author that doesn't write their main character off as either flawed or perfect and doesn't wish he or she were a little more like them? It happens everywhere in fiction, Young Adult and Adult literature: it's all the same. There is always a slight desire to be the main character of your own novel. 
 "'Ah, a storyteller,' the general said. 'Well, people need stories to divert them at difficult times like this.'" 
 As it is with Hosseini. It's a story, and maybe it distracts him from the wrong that he did. Then again, if it doesn't, at least it provides a story for us greedy swine. 
 -Hosseini is probably getting millions for what he wishes were true: Name an author who isn't. 
 People again complain about Hosseini's writing. I'm sorry to say (and maybe a little embarrassed, too) that I didn't notice anything wrong with it. Well, I may have, but wrote it off as a one-time occurrence and promptly forgot about it overnight. ...Lather, rinse, repeat. Who knows? My immediate (that is not to say my long-term) memory is poor at best, hilariously Dory-like at worst. 
 Another issue pertaining to my knowledge of his writing is that I largely read this book during a time that I was rushing to meet due-dates and catch up; something of which I am now reprieved, so my reviews will be more often and less half-remembered. I read this about a week ago- believe me, I'm trying very hard to remember what actually happened. 
 All in all, if you take the other reviews' opinions into account, I'm a simple moronic monkey. I'll gladly agree to it, too, if you like. 
 So, all in all, I found this book satisfying, yet I can see why other people might not have liked it. I respect your opinion as your own and allow you to keep it.