Rating:  Summary: A Great Short Read! Review: This book is absolutely beautiful. There is so much in it that we can learn, I just don't know how to put it into words. I just barely finished it and I loved it. Good insights into Pearl Harbor and what the Japanese citizens/immigrants went through.
Rating:  Summary: Many valuable insights in this book! Review: This book is absolutely beautiful. There is so much in it that we can learn, I just don't know how to put it into words. I just barely finished it and I loved it. Good insights into Pearl Harbor and what the Japanese citizens/immigrants went through.
Rating:  Summary: Good historical info, but poor in story-line Review: This book was very informative regarding the Japanese internment. However, the story line was very slow, and un-entertaining. I continued reading the book soley for the historic perspective.
Rating:  Summary: Silent Honor Review: This is a moving story about the unbelievable pain and prejudice faced by the Japanese in America during WWII. It tells about the life experiences of Hiroko, a Japanese girl, who arrives in America right after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. It tells of her life detained in an internment camp and her life after she is released. It tells of her romance and losses. The story is fictional, but could be real... The historical backdrop is convincing and very realistic. It reveals many of the injustices imposed on the Japanese during this time. A powerful and thought-provoking novel.
Rating:  Summary: Good, but not her best. Review: This is a story of a Japanese woman and her life story. It is an OK book, but I can honestly say that some of her others are better. Easy enough to read, but save it for later.
Rating:  Summary: Important story, horrible writing Review: This is the story of one of the most shameful times in American history, the internment of the Japanese Americans. As a half-Japanese, I know I would have been rounded up during this time and stripped of my Constitutional rights, treated as a prisoner. As such, I try to read whatever I can about this important part of America's story. "Silent Honor" is hardly the most "distinguished" or important books available on the subject. It tells the story of a Japanese girl, visiting her cousins (who, as Steel goes to great lengths to remind us, again and again, are AMERICAN, so much that they giggle at her traditions that they don't understand) in California during the time of Pearl Harbor. She gets stuck there and is placed in an internment camp. Along the way, she meets an amazing American man and has an affair with him. If you can disregard the affair (which you should cause it's pretty ludicrous, but I guess standard for this kind of book), you might get a lot out of this novel. The depictions of camp life and the hell that the internees faced is pretty well done. Steel does her research and tries to incorporate important Japanese mores such as "shikata-ga-nai" and historical details like the "no-no-boys" in to her story. You will learn a lot about the camps. I enjoyed the characters and the attention to historical detail, but it must be said that Steel is a pretty horrible writer. She begins almost every sentence with "And...". I think it's trying to sound dramatic, but mostly it sounds like she needs an editor. If you've never read Steel before, this might drive you insane (look past it, if you can). If you are a big fan, I think this (along with Wanderlust) is probably her best work.
Rating:  Summary: sack those research assistants Danielle Review: This novel is so wrong it is actually funny. The cover design alone should be enough of a warning that this book is wide of the mark, it's red and gold, which are popular in the Chinese palette, but not Japan. I bought this book for my Japanese wife and from the very first sentence she started giggling at the ridiculous errors. The first character introduced in the novel has the alleged family name of Takashimaya. Takashimaya is not a family name in Japan, but it is the name of a very well known upscale department store chain. (The suffix ya means shop, btw). Maybe the Japanese translation of this novel has a lead character named Mister Nieman Marcus?I could go on but I am laughing too much to type properly.
Rating:  Summary: Brilliant! Review: This was one book that i could not put down. I am not in a sense - tht type that would read a book about the War but this book totally changed myt view and I actually search for books that are based on this topic. A must read for anyone.
Rating:  Summary: RIVETING! Review: When I first picked up `Silent Honor` I didn't know that the journey the book would take me through would be so full with emotions of every kind possible. So much occurs in the book that it is not humanly possible to write it all down but all I can say is that when you first pick up this book you will read it through every spare minute you have. A masterpiece by any writers standards Danielle Steel's novel of a Japanese girl living through the war in America is one of quality that no other writer can produce. Danielle Steel, will she ever stop?
Rating:  Summary: Realistic, Romanitc and Plain good! Review: When I first started reading Silent Honor, I thought it was going to be boring and slow, but having faith in Danielle Steel's good works, I continuied reading it and found out it is a grat book!! Easy to read, entertaining and always keeps you wanting to know what will happen next. Very unexpected and nice. Give it a try and you'll see what I mean. I really enjoyed it and now it's one of my favorite book of Danielle Steel. She is also my favorite writer! I am open to all comments of people who like Danielle Steel's work, yani@hotmail.com .
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