Absolutely a beautiful written tale. I saw the movie in 2005 but for some reason never read the novel. I had a friend recently mention to me that this was her favorite book and that the movie didn't capture the true nature of Sayuri's story. She was right and I'm so glad that I finally ready Memoirs...
Enjoyed it, but it didn't live up to its hype. The beginning was delightful, with sweeping prose and a nice, exact, but boldly vast landscape of language. It essentially follows the life of a girl basically sold into practice to become a geisha. a geisha is basically a woman who outlines her life wi...
Memoirs of a Geisha happens to be my first biography book. Its slow paced story made me feel like, sipping on a Starbucks coffee on a winter day. Each word has been defined to its core, which was like watching a well directed movie (though I watched the movie too, later!). The picturesque portraits ...
Quote:" We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice." I loved this book. By page 9, I loved this book for its style alone. The writing is quietly expressive; a gentle trip down a lazy stream but without being boring. This is the story o...
This book had a very magical feel about it, I enjoyed it a lot. That being said, it's hard for an American male to truly capture the perspective of a Japanese female. It lost major points in way of respect for me as not all of it is accurate, and he was sued by the retired geisha who helped supply h...
This gets a bad rating because even though I was quite engaged by the story, after I read what Arthur Golden did to write this book, how he totally rolled over a real geisha and twisted her words around... I felt really disgusted. Now I feel that way every time a white person exploit PoC to get enor...
A beautiful, poingnant story that is so incredibly, lyrically captivating you are seduced from the very first word. An absolute work of art, each page overflows with beautiful, sensual, evocative images. Such is the skill and authority of Golden's writing, I feel as though I have spent hours, being ...
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