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Article: FORSTER PROMISES FAITHFUL TREATMENT OF 'KITE RUNNER'.(LA.COM)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- September 16, 2007
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Byline: >GLENN WHIPP
When you're making a movie based on a novel that has spent more than two years on The New York Times best-seller list and was read last year by more book clubs than any other title, you'd better not muck it up.
That's Marc Forster's view, anyway. Forster ("Finding Neverland," "Stranger Than Fiction") had directed the movie adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner," a book that isn't just read out of obligation. OK, maybe it is read out of obligation, but the act of reading usually produces passion and a tell-a-friend impulse that has kept the book flying out of stores.
"You can't disappoint those readers," Forster ...