Preference Of Book To Movie Version Of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner (2007): Reader Response Theory

This research is concerning to reader’s preference of book to movie version The Kite Runner (2007) by Khaled Hosseini using Reader-Response theory. The objective of the study is to know what the reader’s reason for preferring the book. This research belongs to Qualitative research that used primary data and secondary data source. The data was gained from IMDb (Internet Movie Database) as many as 235 reviewers’ response is the primary data source. Meanwhile, other references such as books, previous studies, journals, and another which associated to this analysis are the secondary data source. There are three results that found in this research. First, the researcher decided 10 main issues from reviewers’ response. Second, the researcher took the reviewer’s background based on their continental. The last is, the reasons for preferring a book to the movie were categorized into 5 issues