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Summary: Memoirs Of Geisha
Review: This book is brilliant! I have not read a book cover to cover in years. Everytime I went to put is down, I would say "Just one more chapter!" You will never believe that this book is Fiction. You feel for the heroin in the book and you feel what she feels.
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Summary: A captivating novel
Review: It's been a while since I felt deeply immersed in such a story. The story is truly believable, not to mention beautifully detailed as well. As a college student, I never felt so entertained during my winter break since every morning I look forward to reading this book (the entire day)! Overall, it's an excellent story since reading it feels as if I myself were actually viewing the whole story on film.
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Summary: Memoirs of a Geisha
Review: This book was great. The beginning was a little slow but I was so glad that I kept reading. I highly recommend this book to anyone...Im 16 and i loved it. I learned many thing about Japenese culture while reading it. It is a worthwhile book.
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Summary: An intriguing story about an exotic culture
Review: A great Novel, although I am not at all a Novel reader.You feel sympathy toward Chiyo-chan who later becomes Sayuri, and you wonder throughout the story whether or not life would eventually bear some happiness to her. I thought that the close was terrible. We heard nothing about Nobu-san after the incident with the Minister and nothing about Pumpkin after her little trick. Moreover, the end of the life-long yearning for the Chairman was not illustrative enough. It took only 2 weak chapters (out of 35) to end the book. The chapters have no names, which I found dull. For example, had chapter 22 been called the Hakone Party; the reader would have been more curious and read on.
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Summary: Unlikable character, writing so-so
Review: The story was basically interesting, but the character unsympathetic. He treatment of Pumpkin (her de facto sister) and Nobu (her suitor) were abominable, but she just didn't seem to get it. I had pity for her at first, but that quickly faded. And the writing was quite lacking in imagery much of the time.
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Summary: Best and Most Touching Book Read
Review: When I first read this book, I thought it was one of those comman historical fiction books. But it wasn't! Not only would you explore the world of a geisha, (with being a beginner,apprentice, novice and geisha).And learning how beauty and manners was everything. But this book also explores the world beyond a growing geisha in training named Sayuri. It shows how she she struggles with people and a rival like:Hatsumomo. This book is great for historical fiction lovers and just readers that are touched by dramactic novels.I give it 2 thumbs up!
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Summary: What a book!
Review: The book drew me in from the first sentence and held me till the last. It gives the reader such a wonderful insight into the world of Geisha and in an enjoyable way too. It is hard to believe that the writer is a man, he enters the world of a Geisha as if he had lived it. It is writing at its best.
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Summary: Fabulous
Review: I needed a good book to read over the holidays and to recommend to two girlfriends. I saw the reader reviews of this book and decided that with such rave reviews and 4 to 5 stars from so many, the book must be good. I was not disappointed. From the time I began to read I couldn't put the book down. I was up to 1:30 am on three nights until I completed it because I was so captivated by the story. I thought it was mature, insightful, and beautifully written. I too, was sorry for the book to end. I wish I could find more books that offered the pleasant experience this one did. Being enthralled by a book of this quality is what reading is all about.
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Summary: The Facts are more interesting than the Fiction!
Review: Indeed it is fascinating to get a peek into another culture, and yes, I learnt something about geisha culture, although I am careful to remember it is not first-hand. But the story isn't great. The fumbling Sayuri seems to lack intelligence or insight - while some may see it as simply a reaction to the constraints of her situation (plenty as they are) the protagonist does not kindle my sympathies. She also seems to only understand the world through similies (there are at least a hundred in the book). I find it funny how the similies are so 'exotisised' somehow (and I'm not referring just to the 'eel' one which everyone is so enamoured of!) Is this how a Western author might think Asians think to themselves ...? As an Asian I just find it a little artificial, and I hope not everyone thinks geisha think that way (that is a danger of such 'cultural' books). Character motivations could have been elucidated. However, the book had some entertainment value (much of it in the politics surrounding sex and the lush detailed descriptions of kimonos - an old trick of romance novels to focus on clothing) and the research makes it interesting. Bestseller material, not necessarily classic - no where near Jane Austen!
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Summary: A high school girl's opinion
Review: I'm a sophmore in high school and lately haven't been motivated enough to even think about reading a book. Yet when I was in the bookstore I saw this book and when I read the backpage preview I was really intrigued. Well I just finished the book and I can tell you that I was so engrossed in this book that at times I could read for at least three hours, non-stop. This book was so good because it was unlike most fictional books which read like a made-up story, this book reads like an actual, real-life story. I found myself cheering for the different characters. There were different aspects to the characters that drew you in and made you understand them and their emotions, perhaps because you could relate to them in some way. I finished the book within days, and I have already recommended it to many of my friends.
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