Has Reading Lolita in Tehran been discussed yet?

[Coexist]

I just finished it... and wow. There were several passages that really made me put the book down, think, re-read the passage and think some more.

Oops - forgot the spell check.

[alarimer]

1. greeat book

I learned a lot more about Iran than I had known before. I gave it to my mom for Christmas.

[Coexist]

2. One of the things that really struck me

was that they were fairly westernized. They had what we are trying to bomb Iraq into.

And slowly, but relentlessly, their freedoms were chipped away. People always say that free people will not submit to tyranny, but this book proves, sadly, that it is possible to be "pecked to death by a duck".

One denied right, one forsaken privilege, one firmly held belief let go of at a time, these people were thrown into the fearful life that comes with the rise of the State. And it changed them inside.

When she give in and wears the veil to teach, I cried. "it seems I had to constantly remind people that the University was not a grocery store." I felt such a loss then, and again when Mahtab shows up in her black chador, once "the leftist student in her trademark khakis pants".

And I think what affects me most is how our country, in its history, has flirted with conservative control - and is doing so again.

[Sequoia]

7. Maybe not the veil but close: Fashion in USA lately has me upset.

Have you noticed all the frilly girly fasions in the stores lately that remind you of the way women dressed in the 1950s? The shoes are ugly with the very pointy toes, flowers and bows, and buckle little girl style shoes. Everything is so "June Cleaver" looking. The look of domestic bliss, the happy housewife with the home-schooled children.

[BamaGirl]

3. Great book

especially for anyone who claims "it can never happen here". The Bookseller of Kabul was also a great look at Afghaniston pre, during, and post Taliban. Very similiar situations.

[Coexist]

4. Thanks - I will check it out n/t

[MountainLaurel]

5. on the same topic

Are two graphic novels written by a young woman growing up during the Revolution: Persepolis 1 and 2.

edited for spelling of title

[Sequoia]

6. I read that book last year and had it displayed in my house and

a neighbor saw it and nearly had a fit. He asked my why I was reading a book from a terrorist nation. He was nuts, a NASCAR dad.

[Nikia]

8. I thought that it was a cool book

For me more from the life as literature and literature as life aspect. I had just read another book about women in Islamic countries and it was inyeresting to see the first person native aspect contrasted with the work of a Western third person outsider.

[tammywammy]

9. I really liked this book

It was very well written, and you get a good inside look at what it was like before and during the revolution. During the Lolita section, you really get a good description of the girls outside the apartment and inside. I've recommend this book to many people, and no one has said that it was a waste of their time.