todayitsthis 's review for:

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

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She did not hold my interest long enough for me to finish the book, but I actually did admire her writing. I was not put off by her style, but the content was too surface-level. I felt like I was sitting through an English class, hearing a lecture on books I hadn't read. She was good at going into depth with other authors' works, but she didn't wholly share her characters with the reader (at least in the first third of the book that I completed.) Her story is interesting, but I wanted to understand the unique people in it better that I can only experience through her, rather than the breakdown of novels that I can read myself.