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"This is also a brutal read. Nafisi so loves literature and so loves her people that she risks everything to bring the two together. I've been plodding through for months now. Her work feels so much like the little boy throwing a beach full of starfish back into the ocean, one by one -- she reads, and teaches, and shares the stories in the hope of cracking open the door to the world for just a few precious people." — Jan 07, 2012 06:42am
"This is also a brutal read. Nafisi so loves literature and so loves her people that she risks everything to bring the two together. I've been plodding through for months now. Her work feels so much like the little boy throwing a beach full of starfish back into the ocean, one by one -- she reads, and teaches, and shares the stories in the hope of cracking open the door to the world for just a few precious people." — Jan 07, 2012 06:42am
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"I'm reading this book in a manner similar to my reading of White's One Man's Meat last summer: slowly, thoughtfully, and one-chapter-at-a-time. Honestly told, without fanfare or trimmings, the stories and recollections seem brutal and the world cold -- despite the cast of characters. I find myself thinking "this is why we turn to the warmth and oblivion of pubs"." — Jan 07, 2012 06:33am
"I'm reading this book in a manner similar to my reading of White's One Man's Meat last summer: slowly, thoughtfully, and one-chapter-at-a-time. Honestly told, without fanfare or trimmings, the stories and recollections seem brutal and the world cold -- despite the cast of characters. I find myself thinking "this is why we turn to the warmth and oblivion of pubs"." — Jan 07, 2012 06:33am
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