It was really interesting reading about a different culture. As we saw with the Daily Show clips, Americans on the whole are largely uneducated when it comes to world affairs or other countries such as Iran. It was refreshing to get to learn more about that portion of the world, and I hope that everyone relished the opportunity as much as I did.
It was also a good experience to read a graphic novel. With some of the other novels, like Jane Eyre, it was a little harder for me to notice the growing up part of it simply because it was just described: there was no visual representation. In a graphic novel, it's easier to see, and it even makes it easier to notice how the remarks of the characters become more mature as they grow up because all speech is broken apart from the other words instead of mashed together into lines. The very organization of it made it easier to take it all in.
I did really like this reading experience, partly for the reasons above, but also because I still like to be able to see what I'm reading. I don't necessarily always build pictures of what's going on in a novel in my head (sometimes I just find it too difficult, so I just let myself be immersed in the reading. Forget about critical analysis), so having someone to do it for me took that out of the equation. Obviously, I wouldn't welcome this all the time, since it would take the fun out of every book if it happened every time, but it was a nice change.
I definitely recommend keeping Persepolis in the curriculum. I might even suggest making the whole book a part of the curriculum, if possible. I don't know about everyone else, but I finished reading it, and even though I could see how some people might not like it, it is a reading experience that I truly believe everyone should have.
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