Your Time 100

TIME asked who people thought should be on the list of the 100 most influential people of the year. Over 200 candidates were given a rating of 1 to 100. And your #1 choice? Shigeru Miyamoto! The video game designer had almost 2 million votes, over 300,000 more than runner-up, Rain. After a tight race at the top, Stephen Colbert came in third place with close to 900,000 votes.

Here are the 100 finalists:

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1725112_1726934_1726935,00.html

It is worth a few minutes...it is curious to see that the high school musical cast is more influential to Americans than even Oprah Winfrey...

Have a nice weekend!

Dove

Talk to Dove before they destroy Paradise Forests

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http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/forests/asia-pacific/dove-palmoil-action

(Taken from www.greenpeace.org)

The main issues in "The Kite Runner"

Here are some of the issues that among so many others make The Kite Runner a novel hard to forget. These are the ones that in my opinion give this novel that "something else":

Live in a Lie
Superiority
Loyalty
Friendship
Redemption
Emptiness

Destruction of what is Our Home
Regret
Love
War (physical and psychological)
Bravery as Punishment
Discrimination
Expectations
Cultural differences
Cowardice versus Courage
Immigration
American Dream

I decided not to explain each one of them, due to the fact that I'm not sure if all of you already read it all (and I do not want to be a spoiler). So this way, if you have any doubts or simply do not agree with something, please say so!

You are welcome to have your say about my opinion and I will be waiting for more suggestions

For you a thousand times over

THE KITE RUNNER

Over two years on the New York Times bestseller list, and published in 42 different languages.

Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable, beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan nonetheless grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara, member of a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When the Soviets invade and Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him.

The Kite Runner is a novel about friendship, betrayal, and the price of loyalty. It is about the bonds between fathers and sons, and the power of their lies. Written against a history that has not been told in fiction before, The Kite Runner describes the rich culture and beauty of a land in the process of being destroyed. But with the devastation, Khaled Hosseini also gives us hope: through the novel's faith in the power of reading and storytelling, and in the possibilities he shows for redemption.

Taken from: http://www.khaledhosseini.com/ - march 27th

Remember that you can share with us any ideas or thoughts about the Kite Runner!

Wish you all a great weekend...and good reading!