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Summary: As good as it's gets.
Review: I kept wishing through out the book that it was longer.I just didn't want it to end. Such terrific writing. What a gourgous culture. Can't wait to see what Mr. Golden comes out with next.
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Summary: a wonderful book
Review: I enjoyed the story very much. The detail was amazing, I felt as if I was walking the streets of Kyoto with her. Satisfying end.
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Summary: Wonderful Storytelling
Review: I could not believe this book was written by a man, Arthur Golden is amazing. I was captured by this story, I could not put this book down.
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Summary: Captivating.
Review: I had given up reading novels a while ago. This was the first book in five years that managed to both catch and keep my attention. It is a work that exhibits tremendous ingenuity on the author's behalf.
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Summary: A remarkable feat, completely fulfulled my expectations
Review: Fresh. Good change of pace. Sensitive. Tone reminded me of Shogun
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Summary: Its the first book I ever read with such diligence!!.
Review: "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden was a book of extreme talent. It was THE MOST INTERESTING BOOK I HAVE READ. I have read allot of books but this book somehow surpasses allot of the others. It was a book that told a cultural tale, a true story and a dying legend. It signified the struggle we all make in our lives to read our destiny and still while we are trying to find our destiny we still never know if and when we'll reach it. I thought this book was extremely well done. It thought me something that I never knew before about the life of a Geisha and how similiar it could be to so many of our lives. Not the fact of being a Geisha, but the fact of struggling to become the best at what you do. It's also a tale of romance and somehow the irony in this book is so overwhelming, it just made the book allot more interesting. We never expect in our lives that the people we think we can trust would actually turn against us; just like Pumpkin, Mr. Tanaka and the Chairman, in some unual way did to Nitta Sauyri. She was a brilliant person and that's reason Arthur Godlen said that she had so much water in her personality it is because she never let a problem throw her; she was always the one to conquer her destiny and never let things conquer her . She carried everything by, she was a brilliant woman whose elegance,intelligence and wit was never surpassed and so frequently despised. She conquered Hatsumomo who was a brilliant character of evil and in some ways she never realized that she could hurt her best friend Pumpkin so badly they never made up. This novel is also sad because she never saw her sister again; she never said goodbye to her parents but I think she got over that because her parents sold her, they did that to her. They never said goodbye to her; they never told her where she was headed and what path to take in life. All this hate probably got to her , but in the end a smart person never lets themselves down because they know how and when to strike, they know how to bear their defeat, they know how to aspire to be better, they know what they want in life and how to get it and this is what Nitta Sayuri did. I read this entire book in 5 days I could of read it in quite less but I wanted to savor the life of someone so interesting that I regret it's over. I am very pleaed to know that a movie is coming out about it directed by Steven Speilberg. This is a great work, especially the way Arthur Golden disguised his voice to become such and old woman, he is an intelligent man with great ideas. thanks Shawn Hayden Ramsingh
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Summary: Praise of the personal soul developement and identity.
Review: Memoirs Of a Geisha was a thoroughly delicious taste of the life of a geisha as well as that of the individual soul of Sayuri from her early training to her long term love of a person she met for only a moment who , in turn , changed the force propelling her life. Similar to the recognition of ones own desires and dreams and their fulfillment brought to mind the similar discovery contained in Bryce Courtney's "The Power of One". Both novels share the maturation of the story teller through the association of both friends and rivals as the search for love and sense of self propel the characters in everyday life including education, physical growth, and spiritual growth. I found myself weening my reading of the last 30 pages to only several a day like sipping a fine wine or savoring exquisite chocolate. I did not want to finish the book.AAN
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Summary: Not brilliant, but a good read
Review: If you don't set your expectations too high, you'll probably enjoy this book. Ignore the hype and take it for what it's worth: not great literature, but a reasonably well-written, often absorbing portrayal of the geisha's world. Those who expect political correctness and/or scholarly exactitude should probably look elsewhere.
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Summary: borrow this book
Review: I definitely consider this book a "page-turner" but at about every ten page turns I was reminded that I was hearing an American man's voice and not the voice of an actual geisha. This distraction haunted my read of a pretty story.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Boy was I disappointed. Don't get me wrong, Golden know's his stuff. He has a thorough knowledge of Japanese Culture and History. But, I just felt so misled, when I realized that what I thought was going to be a an enlightening and entertaing read, turned out to be a thinly disguised 400+ page Harlequin Romance. It started out as such a charming story, but the subplot with the Chairman was so annoying, and the ending just ruined the whole thing for me.
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