Rooftops of Tehran
Mahbod Seraji
May 2009
368 pages
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17 year old Pasha and his best bud Ahmed like to hang out on the (surprise) rooftops of their homes in Tehran. Pasha is the more serious of the two…he loves to read and moon over the neighbor girl, who is engaged to the local genius/Really Nice Guy. Ahmed is comic relief, always quick with a joke or a skit. Of course, he’s mooning over a girl, too. However, since it’s the 1970s in Iran, there’s also a bit of political dissent going on, and the boys can’t stay innocent forever.
I ended up being disappointed by this one. I thought that the ending was predictable. Also, the Big Event happened halfway through the book, and then it seemed like it took forever and a day to wrap the whole thing up. And since I could see the ending coming from a mile away, it wasn’t the most enjoyable of forevers and a day. I liked it so much better when Pasha was in the mental hospital and we didn’t know what had happened to him.
Heh. I love the candidness of your reviews, and the way that you are always so honest about what you are reading. I am not crazy about predictability, so I might stay away from this one, but I do agree with your assessment that it might have been really interesting for one character to have been institutionalized and taken out of the equation.
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I was disappointed in this one too, which was too bad because I really, really wanted to like it more!
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That is just stinky that you didn’t like this one…It is currently on my bookshelf and will probably stay there for awhile longer. Thanks for the review!
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Too bad. They can’t all be winners. Was this from the Shelf of Doom?
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