Two of them a few years apart
Bob Randall
From Hollywood to Broadway, Sally Ross and otehrs tell the story in letters in the days before the Internet and email. Douglas Breen, the fan, stalks Sally until a clever scheme falls into his lap to shake off police, acquire a gun and move in. You feel like you're the one he wants. Breen's mother pities him but Dad wants him out of his life. After losing his job he spends his savings on a motel room for two she'll never show up to occupy with him and there goes no romance. Things get scarier as Breen's scheme unfolds and he's got a clear path towards his goal, which happens right after the story closes. You look for more letters but the story is done and he's won.
Peter Abrahams
Baseball. Boston Red Sox star Bobby Rayburn is in a real slump. Gil Renard also loses his job but leaves with a set of knives, a souvenir from his former employer, added to the thrower he inherited from his father, a backyard knife maker. He keeps the thrower strapped to his leg. Gil, avidly following the Sox and his son's Little League games and calling the local radio stations sports talk show from his car, knows exactly what his team needs. Primo, usurper of Rayburn's numner 11, must go. Only then can Rayburn play baseball at his level best again. It gets addictive as more people fall to Gil. His last victim-to-be, Rayburn himself, fends off the knife with his bat. The Sox win the World Series, followed by Bobby's unexpected retirement. Here you feel like the police are after you for this string of murders.
Both these novels are nonstop page turners. You MUST find out what happens next. Even if interrupted you return to your reading.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Amir tells his story. Starting in Afhanistan he tells of his relationship with Hassan, who he thought was his father's servant's son but was really his brother. Fathers took their sons and their sons' friends to Teheran to see their favorite movies over and over again. They wanted to write to John Wayne and were shocked to find that he didn't really speack Farsi and wasn't Iranian, just another American actor among many Americans whose movies were shown in Teheran. Hassan was the one who ran the kite and took it home as he was eitirled to and nobody could take it away from him. Dad was proud and bragged to all about how Hassan came home with his kite and hung it on the wall.
1975 came and with it the need to flee Afganistan. Amir is taken with is father to America and Hassan stays behind. Amir becomes a U S citizen, goes to college and gets married. Then he hears of Hassan's death and his son's need of his help. Amir without question goes to Afghanistan to rescue Hassan's son and with the help of a relative of his wife brings the son to America.
This book parallels its author's own life story and how things were and are back home in Afghanistan. I'm the evcard star. I built the card for it at http://www.geocities.com/elfcards/ccphonehome.html Got sound? meantime I wait for the library to get me hes next book A thousand Splendid Suns.
Sue Monk Kidd
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