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Summary: Enjoyable, readable, believable--fascinating characters.
Review: I greatly enjoyed this book. It captured my attention and imagination from the very beginning, and the characters were interesting and believable. The protagonist in particular was someone I'd like to meet! Definitely recommended; not ponderous reading, either.
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Summary: I couldn't put it down. I hated finishing it. I wanted more
Review: I felt like I was there with Sayuri the whole time. I could feel her pain. What an amazing woman written about by a wonderful writer.
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Summary: Ending was so disapppointing
Review: I have to agree with many reviewers that the ending of this book was a major disappointment. For about 90% of this amazing detail-rich read I was completely engrossed - but the end was a cop-out and all "wrong". I really believe the author rushed the ending and was thinking of movie rights. This is the biggest shame as without the major flaw of the ending this could have been a classic piece of literature. As it stands I felt cheated.
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Summary: Sheer Brillance
Review: Never has a book caused me to suspend my daily routines such as this book has. Once into the book, I had to take a vacation day from work to continue through the saga. I often felt as if Sayuri were dictating her memoirs directly to me. This book renewed my thought that we all must remember where we have come from, inorder to get where we are destined to go.
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Summary: I loved it!!
Review: Everything in this book was great! It was so interesting to learn about a different culture and also gain insight into a lifestyle that has been kept so secretive over the years.
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Summary: Well-written but implausible
Review: Perhaps I'm jaded after living in Japan for many years, but I don't find this book as fascinating as so many others do. Why should people be so amazed that a man can actually write a woman's character?The implausibility of this well-written, but for me, finally unfulfilling book, is that no geisha would ever even think of spilling her secrets out to anyone. That's what surprises me, since the author is obviously extremely well-versed in Japanese and Japanese culture. It does not rank up there in my list with the great novels of recent memory. Read Delillo's "Underworld" to find masterful modern writing at its best.
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Summary: Informative/Good Read!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: read this book over a year ago and I am still recomending it to friends. A very informative book which helps one realize the demands and eccentricites of different cultures. Golden achieves his goal of being "the young geisha" with amazing acuity! One must repeatedly check the author's name to ascertain "Yes, tis is a man!"bevjimevans
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Summary: Lots of interesting detail, but characters are flat
Review: If you've ever wondered what life as a geisha is like, this book will give you the information. However, the characters are pretty one-dimensional.
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Summary: A historical story that raises some modern questions
Review: In "Memoirs...," Mr. Golden relates the life story of a girl who becomes a woman in the male-dominated society of early century Japan, where a woman is valued for her beauty, virginity, submissiveness to men, and often feigned innocence. Sayuri, the heroine of the story, is sold by her father to a geisha house, while her less attractive sister is sold to a prostitute house. Sayuri believes that she has only one path to survival: to become a successful geisha, one who sells her virginity to the highest bidder and attracts men who will pay for her sustenance to have a long-term, sexual relationship with her. "Memoirs..." raises interesting questions that aren't answered in the book: Did Sayuri have other choices for survival besides becoming a geisha? How would Sayuri as a modern woman view her life as a geisha: as one to be celebrated or ashamed of? Overall, I recommend this book for its historical memoir of the life of a geisha, although it doesn't address some of the modern issues that are interesting in understanding women of Japan today.
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