An absolute must-read. This book is amazing..reading "love was forbidden, banished from the public sphere. How could it be experienced if its expression was illegal?" brings understanding of the trauma and conflict that young women must face daily in Iran. How can you learn to love when the demonstr...
This book piqued my interest in Nabakov. She strikes me as someone from whom I'd love to take a class. And although I'm glad she didn't focus on history or politics per se (and wisely leaves that to other authors), I do wish the book had a bit more substance. But it's readable and gives us insigh...
What Nafisi has to say about fiction in this book is incredible. I've always felt a little guilty for spending so much of my time reading--sometimes to the exclusion of other very important things. Nafisi claims that reading fiction is a chance to escape into another world, a world with different re...
From its provoking, intriguing title to its very last page, Azar Nafisi's book, Reading Lolita in Tehran, partly a narrative biography, partly a history of a nation and its people, and partly critical analysis of great American and British authors, is astonishing, enlightening, and important. Much l...
It had its moments, but on the whole the book was a little too slow for a summer read. I may go back and finish it one day, but I think it's a better fall/winter read.
Cherish your ability to read, write and thrive.Most memorable part: putting Lolita on trial. I think that scene will stay with me as long as my memory works.
I've never read Nabokov's Lolita. Frankly, that book has never been on my list. Hence, you can understand how I've not been attracted by the artful title of this novel. What has aroused my curiosity here has been the Islamic Republic of Iran, formerly Persia. Indeed Iran has always interested me a l...
When I signed up the bookring for Reading Lolita in Tehran, I'd anticipated reading a book about a woman fighting for human rights in an increasingly intolerant society. Reading Lolita is this book, but it is much more. Nafisi creates a safe place for women to gather and explore what it means to be ...
This is not always an easy book to read or to like. Its episodic, it jumps around, at times the narrator inserts herself so thoroughly into the foreground that she's all you can see. The match between the lives of women in the revolutionary republic of Iran and such hoary classics as Pride and Pre...
This is for the audio version. This is a powerful book and Lisette Lecat mostly reads it well and clearly, but she never met an r she didn't want to roll, or a t she didn't want to hit like a nail, and sometimes the extremely careful and thorough pronunciation of. ev. ery. sin. gle. syll. a. ble. i...
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