Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Chosen by Paige, served with -- since Paige was reminded of the Iranian hostage crisis, and therefore the 1970s, frito pie and ho-hos.

Brent: B- Reasonably good job, but I got alienated in the first chapter.

Paige: B+ It kept provoking me and kept making me read more.

Rett: C+ I didn't read that much, but what I read I didn't like.

Colleen: B I genuinely liked the discussion of Iran . . . but I was less into the literature aspects.

Tammy: C It was really just average.

Karen Z: C+ It's intentions were good, and I even think it's important -- but I just didn't enjoy it.

John: B- The things it was trying to do were really important -- it just didn't succeed in doing them for me. But if it weren't at least a B, I wouldn't have finished it.

Karen F: B- I started out thinking I would love it -- I love the idea of the Comp Lit version of a memoir, but ultimately I think each section should have been about half as long. Also, she edited out any true emotion that would have really let us feel for her or her characters.