Catherine L. (ritikitib) reviewed on 9/16/2008 + 21 more book reviews

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This book is a "must read". I bought a copy to travel on book-crossing. Azar Nafisi and her students are amazing. I am ever so grateful like Professor Nafisi exist. If you get this book, please do take very good care of it while you're reading it and definitely pass it on to the next reader! I'd like to own audio version so I can hear it as well.

I'm just responding to some reviews from people who were a little put off by Nafisi's literary critiquing the novels that her students studied with her. Though I am definitely not academic, and the novels were not fresh in my mind, I very much enjoyed Nafisi's discussions of the novels and what they meant to her students. Those novels were very much a part of Nafisi's and her students' experiences. Nafisi writes beautifully about the human connection to story telling and how that can help keep up the human spirit. If you are interested in reading about how something like a novel that you read or didn't read made meaning to others, then for you I highly recommend this book.

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