Is this story well?

I read Kite Runner some time back,loved the narrative element of the novel but laughed to death at the accommodating ending.Its sad to see a book hold so much promise and then fall into the clutches of cliched easy-way-out plot.I do wish the writer didn't bargain a reality for closure.sad.

Makes me wonder if bestsellers often play out on the miserable elements of life to gather fan base rather than portray the whole scenario.Its like all things happy are not desirable when playing on roots and ethnic characters.I am not sure i can say a "God of small things" or any other flavored book is an fair insight.There is something about the success of tragedy that makes people hold it as a more true account of the state of affairs, thats tragedy enough!Few Romanians were complaining on imdb forum how the movie - 4 Months,3 Weeks and 2 Days-gave a crooked account of the current situation.I have to agree that the creative individuals are falling prey to a new form of conformism,they find focusing on the dirt specific to a society increasing its authenticity and ethnicity.It just makes me feel they aren't putting the effort to see beyond the bling bling tragedies! I might be completely out of line here,but i am a little confused global viewer-the news channels have agendas and the movies or books are letting us down.May be we need to be shown better understanding of WHY they exist or HOW it can be changed rather than just reporting the tragic heart wrenching stories.Conformism ,which isn't the primary motive ,is hard to be pointed out.

There was a discussion earlier on a forum as whether to call Oscar Wilde a "free thinker" or not. Just completed "Picture of Dorian Gray",Oscar Wilde's only novel.On the face of it the book seems to be rebellious with its homosexual undertones and pursuit of senses,but the cynic in me wonders whether disguising the sexual implications was an act of conformism by Wilde! Then again i can't make a stand unless we weigh this in relation to the society during Mr.Wilde's time,because he might have broken a taboo for those times!All this discussion leads to the ultimate question on the definition of free thinker and conformist.How much importance should be attached to these labels to begin with? Granted that our societies are imperfect,to say the less, and a man should apply his discretion in his actions.There is this speck of good in the society and does conforming to those aspects be tabooed by the radicals?May be thats where a free thinkers part ways with the radicals and rebels of the world!

Are you on the list?

Are you on the list?
No?Don't worry that just means that either "I have taken care of you" or "We didn't move in the same circles"
(There is a third,worse end-"I righteously avoided you each and every time you our your emissaries were around")
And In my defense i was the offspring of 80's . To add to the woes i wasn't active till the 90's...so I do have a lot of catching up to do.

The House of sand and fog
History of world in 10 1/2 chapters
Kafka on the shore
The book thief
End-Game
Like Birds,Like Fishes
The master and Magarita
Portnoy’s complaint
Consider the lobster
River of fire
The myth of Sisyphus
Girl,Interrupted
Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Look back in anger
A woman of no importance
All poems of Pablo Neruda,T.S.Eliot,W.B.yeats
The New York Trilogy
Longitudes and Attitudes
From Beirut to Jerusalem
O Jerusalem
The Bell Jar
A million little pieces
Vernon God Little
Anna Karenina
The Idiot
The Trail
Moth Smoke
The Joke-Milan Kundera
Ignorance -Milan Kundera
The unbearable lightness of being-Milan Kundera
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
Counter culture through the ages
All the Kings men
Atonement
On the Road
Death in Venice
Sandman series
Watchmen series
Clockwork orange
still life with woodpecker
Travels with Charlie in search of America

PS-This my To Be Read list if it wasn't obvious yet from the length *sigh*.All i need now is Time and Finances..any philanthropists around?

quotes

"Love is.It just is."

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

“MAN GROWS USED TO EVERYTHING, THE SCOUNDREL”

"42"

"A plague on both your houses"