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Summary: This book is an amazing and educational historical novel!
Review: I knew I had to read Memoirs Of A Geisha when I heard Madonna suggest it. This book captures your attention and is extremely hard to put down. I love historical novels because of the real details as well as the imaginative ones. Memoirs...combines both elements, creating a captivating story!
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Summary: insightful and spellbinding
Review: Golden is another author who amazes me with his grasp of feminine perspective (the other being Wally Lamb) I feel he offered wonderful insights into the life of a geisha and Japanese culture, which many of his readers will never have the opportunity to expereince first hand. A spellbinding novel if you enjoy living vicariously. A little predictable here and there, but I couldn't put it down.
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Summary: I bid popular fiction a fond adeiu after this one.
Review: This book at first seemed to me like a modern-day Dicken's novel. I couldn't putit down. I read all 430 pages in three days. The problem is that after the great story development at the beginning of the novel, the last half of the novel is not that informative and, in fact, quite boring. In the end I really feel that for all I learned about geisha, I really didn't learn that much at all!! What do they do during the day, except pine for men old enought to be their grandfathers? After me initial excitment it was with much dissapointment that I finished this novel. I wish a woman had written this insipid drivel so that I could stop hearing about how well Golden writes a female character.
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Summary: It is a culture-packed novel which is unable to stay shut!
Review: As a high school student preparing for college, I have always had question about what to study in college. I could either major in dance, humanities, or interdisciplinary studies. In reading this book, it has made me aware of how ignorant in the area of culture us Americans truely are. So, I have decided to study cultures and humanities in my future. I hope that I will eventually be able to decrease the amount of culture shock Americans and all other people of the world experience throughout their lifetime. This book shows the life of a working woman in Japan around the 1950s and is unable to stay shut. I recommed it to anyone and everyone!
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: I didn't like this book. Although I admire Mr. Golden's knowledge and efforts, I must say, as a Japanese woman, that I was very disappointed and somewhat disturbed by this book. The story is unnatural. Sayuri's behavior and emotions are not the ones of a Japanese woman of my grandmother's generation. I couldn't help thinking that something very important was missing throughout the book. People who are interested in Japanese culture should try reading books written by Japanese authors as well.
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: I loved this book. In fact, I couldn't put it down. I have read some people complain that Sayuri's relationship with Nobu and the Chairman are unrealistic, but I think all of the relationships and actions fit the person who didn't really get a childhood - one who was thrust in adulthood and semi-prositution. Sayuri sparkles in this novel! Arthur Golden has created a masterpiece!!! Bravo!!!
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Summary: good
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Summary: Arthur Golden's years of research have paid off!!!
Review: Mr. Golden has painted a sharp, vivid picture of the tedious life of a geisha. I was swept up till the very last page! Arthur has sculpted a marvelously realistic and down-to-earth world of original characters that the reader grows to love (or hate in Hatsumomo's case). The story of a frightened orphan girl from a poor Japanese fishing village who is forced to be a geisha at the Nitta okiya is captivating and enigmatic. It expresses the cold creulty of the world and the people who live in it. A DEFINITE thumbs up! Email me and we'll discuss it!
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Summary: One of the best books I've read in the last 5 years.
Review: The author has really captured the heart of a woman in this book. Beautifully written, I couldn't put it down & finished it in 4 days. I'm eagerly anticipating reading anything else that Mr. Golden writes.
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Summary: wonderful! Beautiful! I was addicted to this book.
Review: This book was so wonderful I have a hard time putting words to describe it. I really hope they make this into a movie. It is such a colorful story.
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