The Wandering Falcon Audiobook

" its full of quotable quotes! what a brilliant way to describe the neglected part of the Pakistani world! "

" The narrative in this book is really random, but it kept me interested right to the end, and I feel like I understand tribal life in Afghanistan and Pakistan a whole lot better. "

" Think of an old man telling stories about various tribes in the borderlands where Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan come together, and you'll have a pretty good idea of the nature of this book. Told in simple prose, there's no continuous development. One character appears in every chapter, but usually as a minor character and sometimes merely as a cameo; we certainly never get to know him. We do learn something about the tribal cultures in that region and the challenges they faced roughly at mid-20th century (the timeline is vague), which makes it a worthwhile, short read, but as a novel it's not very satisfying. "

" I actually give it 3.5 stars. The book seemed more like a collection of short stories that are only loosely connected. But each gives a tantalizing glimpse of bleak lives of the tribes that live on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. "

" A gift from Library Thing. I enjoyed the first half, then it seemed to go off in too many directions about the tribal customs and hatreds in Afghanistan/Pakistan, with too many characters and too many tribes that I could not get interested in. "

" Good book for those who enjoy reading about the world they know so little about. "

" technically this should be marked as not read and never should be read by anyone ever......really couldn't get into it, it didn't seem to flow and I didn't care about the characters "

" I found the prose and the characters absorbing - I wanted to know more. So much hardship and pain it would seem unsupportable but it is just life in this bitter landscape. "

" Well written and interesting start, but too "foreign" for me to finish. "

" Very well written book. Good follow-up to The Kite Runner. Short too. :) "

" Fantastic series of stories with a single character woven in throughout. A beautiful and brutal view into another culture. "

" Lyrical slow moving little book failed to keep my attention. I wanted to like it because it is about a nomadic people but just couldn't find purchase on the surface. Beautiful language just wasn't enough for me. "