07.31.06
Reading Lolita in Tehran: Twenty-fourth Post (Final Thoughts)
The reading group guide at the back of this book actually wasn’t bad. I’m floored. It wasn’t great, but it was much, much better than I have come to expect from such guides. The questions varied between obvious ones to ask to insightful ones that might actually provoke good discussions. Best of all, none of them were terribly insulting. The list of suggested reading was ok, but could have been much better. Most of it seemed to be little more than a list of titles mentioned at one point or another by the author throughout the text of the book. In general it wasn’t great and I wouldn’t actually use it, but it wasn’t bad either.