Silent Honor

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Summary: A taste of history.
Review: I read this book a long time ago. I have recently become legally blind and bought this book on audio cassette. I loved listening to it even more than reading it myself. The only problem I had was the ending. Does she ever see her love again? Did I miss something or do we just know she lives happily ever after?

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Summary: CHALLENGES
Review: In Silent Honor by Danielle Steel, Hiroko, a shy and quite girl, goes to United States for a year. Hiroko also faces many problems, such us having to adjust to different traditions. She though she had nobody left but a knick on the door changed everything.
I though that this book was a very good one. It showed me how much people from different places have to face mean people. How much people suffer, and how love, family and good friends are important. Silent Honor has many examples of these things. Danielle Steel has a nice way to hold the reader, you even get has at times and feel sorry for Hiroko.

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Summary: Enjoyable, touching, but a little contrived
Review: My first Danielle Steel, I enjoyed the velocity of the story and its historical context. I was restless at times with the rather shallow treatment of issues, and the plot seemed a little too contrived. Some very touching moments.

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Summary: My mother was interned. Here's what she said:
Review: My parents are both native Californians of Japanese descent. They both were interned in concentration camps located in Arizona. Both families were farmers and lost everything as a result of being sent to the camps. My mom said that most of Steel's descriptions of this horrible incident were accurate. Since they couldn't own land, I don't think the family in Silent Honor owned their home as the author wrote, though. I also found it hard to believe the part about the illicit lovemaking, etc. A traditional Japanese girl in the 1940s would NEVER have done that. I have enjoyed Steel's books for many years and am pleasantly surprised when she writes about historical events like in this book and "Message from Nam."

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Summary: Wonderful story and great historical review.
Review: Really enjoyed the educational quality of this book. Danielle Steel did a wonderful job with the many details of this story. However, I got a little bored with her extreme depiction of "woman's devotion to her man". Does she actually agree with the concept that the "perfect woman surely sacrifices all"

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Summary: Excellent and Very Well Researched
Review: She has done it again. Her books shows the hardships of one young girl and the Honor she tries to maintain. I would recommend this book to everyone. The book gives a side of WWII that wasn't covered very good in the high school history classes. If you liked this book you should read MALICE or THE GIFT.

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Summary: 20 Stars if I could!!!
Review: Silent Honor *****
Oh, my. Where do I begin? First of all, I thank DS for wring it, because if it wasn't for her, I would have never found an intrest toward our World Wars I/II or a softnes to Japanese people, their language or their culture.
I'd give this book 20 stars and counting. Highly recomended.

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Summary: A book that you don't want to put down.
Review: Silent Honor is a book that involves families and countries torn apart by war. It seperates cultures and lets the reader feel the emotions that each ethnic group goes through. The characters show great courage and honor for the countries the families are tied to. It also shows how love can overcome all the obsticles and survive the pain. It teaches readers about the traditions of the Japanesse. It shows how difficult it is for someone to fit into a new culture, especially when it is war time and they are not accepted.You can feel the pain when the innocent people are placed in camps like prisoners. It is a novel with joy, sorrow, and peace. When you read the book you feel as if you are living the story with the characters. When the book ends you are left wanting to know more about the famlies that made it through the war and how they will pull their lives back together

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Summary: Nice try, BUT NEEDS MORE!
Review: The author is trying to write something different from her other books, but fails to truely understand the background. D.Steel describes the war camp, how families and lovers suffer during the war very well, but as for the Japanese culture, family values, I'm afraid she needs to understand and study more than that.

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Summary: OWESOME!!!!!
Review: The silent honour is the best Daniellle Steel book i should say. i can't get away with it even for a single moment. i was extremely shock to read what had happen to the Japanese in Canada during the war. Though we can say that The Japanese during the WW2 was a bad people, but reading the silent honour really make me consider back my thoughts. To you who never get near this book yet, tell you what, you are going to miss the most adventure novel written in the century. You might think that i'm exxagerating but no i'm not.