Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in books by Azar Nafisi is the story told by the author of her experience running a secret book club in Iran during the rule of the Ayatollah Khomeini. In this memoir, Azar explores the idea that through the study of forbidden Western fictional classics she can draw parallels of her oppressed life under the strict tyranny of a blah blah blah blah blah. This book was boring. Don't read it. Wait for the movie. The entire book teases the reader with snippets from classics by (among others) Nabakov, Fitzgerald, James, Austin. Quite frankly I would recommend reading any one of those, or the additional books that the author so kindly suggests to us in the final pages of her book.
Sorry that this review was so short, but I feel that zzzzzzzzzzz..... Oh sorry, I fell asleep thinking about the book.
My next review will be on a book entitled, "The Endurance : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition" by CAROLINE ALEXANDER
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