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Reading Lolita in Tehran has been my bedtime reading the last couple of nights. It's a bit pretentious and tries too hard to be a "literary" book, but the description of the women's lives in the Islamic Republic is pretty compelling.
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flavaaDAAAAAVE posted:I'm about 80 pages into Old Man's War and enjoying it. Scalzi gets a little cheesy with his jokes sometimes, but now that I think about it the characters are all geriatrics at this point so I guess it's fitting. Yeah, I found his humor to be really hit-or-miss. When it sucks it really sucks, but I laughed out loud at parts of the book. I didn't like The Ghost Brigades or Last Colony that much, but Zoe's Tale was great. He gave every single goddamn character the same smarmy sense of humor (even the supposedly "out-there" Special Forces) and it really grated on me. It works better in the first person.
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