I was reading this book while in Japan, and maybe that somehow made it more interesting than it would have been otherwise. Chelsea Haywood decides to devote 90 days to becoming a "Hostess," or modern-day Geisha in Tokyo. Married and with the idea of writing a book on her adventures, Haywood takes a job at Greengrass--a hostess club where she schmoozes and imbibes with a cast of characters who range from fun to outright frightening. Haywood soon learns that the task of being a hostess i More...

About 80% through and it is just absolutely tedious. All the men who go to these hostess clubs are the same, the conversation is the same boring, dry, dull crap, page after page. The author is avoiding something, dancing around some emotion she has about this experience and not being as brutally honest as she could be. I know she is documenting her life as a hostess, but I think I probably could have skipped the entire midsection of the book and gotten the same general feeling about this one due More...

mah. Didn't have time to finish it. Would of been better if... more happened, you know what I mean?