Comments on: Discussion Question 13 for Reading Lolita in Tehran

By: admin

admin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:07:04 +0000

Hi Carolyn! Thank you for sharing your thoughts! I apologize that your previous reply disappeared (we’ll still include you in the list of names entered in the drawing for a copy of book #2) and we will see what we can do to make navigation a bit easier. We’re thrilled that you and your husband both took the time to get involved in this new initiative and certainly hope that the next book will be more appealing. (So far it is getting rave reviews from our staff readers.) Your suggestions are great and we’ll add them to the list of books that we discuss when choosing book three. Have a great time at the book club meeting!

By: Carolyn McHale

Carolyn McHale — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:25:15 +0000

I left a lengthy reply to the book on Nov 28th and I don’t see it at all. This is my first blog experience and I can say that it isn’t very easy to navigate around the blog entries. All I wanted to see was the comments on the book and to make sure that mine was entered. I was very displeased with the book. I thought it was boring and she wandered around the topic. What she said about the dehumanizing of women and the trials and tribulations of being a woman in Iran was certainly important to know about and to understand. But I think she could have done it in 50 pages. I didn’t like the wandering in and out of literature that she referenced. I also feel that with this book we have turned off any men who have wanted to belong to the book club. My husband started reading it in preparation for our Dec 6th book club meeting and ended up speed reading it for he too didn’t like it. I hope that the next book is more appealing to both men and women. Other books such as Two Cups of Tea, Wild Swans, Chinese Lessons, or Greg Mortensen’s newest book, Stones, would be more appealing than Lolita in Tehran.

By: Kristine Knutter (PTPI staff)

Kristine Knutter (PTPI staff) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:06:56 +0000

I too, would like to know the answers to these questions. I would guess that the Magician and Nafisi have not been in contact since she left Iran. He seemed set on discontinuing communication when she decided to leave. I think this is a cowardly way to deal with a friend leaving. Perhaps he feels it would be too painful to try to continue a long distance relationship and he wants to remember what they had together while Nifisi lived in Iran.

By: K.Saroja

K.Saroja — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:25:41 +0000

I have several questions to the author Nafisi.
What motivated her to write this excellent book in the first place?
Is Magician her figment of imagination? if not then has she kept in touch with him now?
Is she happy having made the decision to leave Iran 12 years ago. Any second thoughts?
Is she contemplating writing another book?
How is her husband Bijan and children doing in US
Has US given her what she expected of her? and so on.