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Mar 04, 2022
Elizabeth (Alaska)
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With nearly 2 million GR ratings, this should be on some list called "everyone has read it but me." I bought a used copy about 10 years ago, read the first paragraph and put it back on my shelf. Not for me then and I kept skipping over it. Finally, the time was right!
Elizabeth Strout in her My Name Is Lucy Barton had a writing instructor say "you have only one story to tell, but you will tell it in many ways." I guess Arthur Golden truly had only one story to tell. This is it, his one novel publ ...more
Elizabeth Strout in her My Name Is Lucy Barton had a writing instructor say "you have only one story to tell, but you will tell it in many ways." I guess Arthur Golden truly had only one story to tell. This is it, his one novel publ ...more
Loved it, loved it, loved it! I was dragging my heels from reading this one due to all the hype about it and I finally picked it up for a challenge and I regretted that it's taken me so long to actually read it.
What a wonderful world Arthur Golden has created for his readers. I really liked in that he chose to write it in a memoir kind of perspective and that he's set it up in the beginning with the memoirist (if that's a word?) stating that he could still hear her voice telling him her story be ...more
What a wonderful world Arthur Golden has created for his readers. I really liked in that he chose to write it in a memoir kind of perspective and that he's set it up in the beginning with the memoirist (if that's a word?) stating that he could still hear her voice telling him her story be ...more
Memoirs of a Geisha is a book not soon forgotten. It is the life story of a Geisha and the honor her family took in the fact of her role. The book was very emotional, the movie, however, was very sexual. I don't know why Hollywood can't tell a story as it is written. Exspecially one as beautiful as Memoirs of a Geisha.
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While I did enjoy reading this book, it didnt quite meet my expectations. I liked getting insights to the culture and the history but the characters and the story line didn't really do much for me.
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I read this book the first time it was on the bestseller lists about 10 years ago and absolutely loved it!!
Nov 17, 2007
Jeannie
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really liked it
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historical-fiction
Mar 24, 2008
AM10000
marked it as to-read
Jun 23, 2008
Natalie
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it was amazing
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historical-fiction
Feb 21, 2009
Ines
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it was amazing
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fiction,
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