From the Bookshelf of Pick-a-Shelf…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
I totally fell into this book! Read it 2 years ago and still think about it. Gave my original copy away found another in the thrift bookstore and had to buy it.
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
I was torn reading this book. I can't deny that it wasn't interesting, because it was. But the overall subject matter is depressing. I'm not sure if Golden really believes that the geisha culture was a good one, or if he purposely creates characters that try desperately to rationalize their own miserable lives, but all I kept thinking while I was reading was that this book is an attempt to somehow justify what is nothing less than child sex slavery. The geisha life is not glamorous, beautiful, o
...more
This was a wonderful book. I was entranced by the vivid recount of this Geisha’s life. The life of a Geisha is certainly extraordinary. The history behind the Geisha, her training, her apprenticeship, her initiation, and her life…I found it so interesting. Sayuri’s life is definitely not an easy one. But I thought of her as a strong person because she dealt with the life she was given in an accepting way. Given not chosen. Geisha means “artist” not prostitute. And yet when you ask someone if the
...more
this book was amazing! i couldn't see the movie after i read this, it just pulled at my heart way too much.
...more
Feb 16, 2009
maria
added it
I loved this book, it was a fantastic read
I wish I read the book before watching the movie. Damn. There are a lot of differences between the two.
I really enjoyed this book and got very caught up in it, so much that, when I thought that Sayuri was going to do something that would be wrong or bad for her, I found it hard to read further and had to take a break! It reads like a memoir but is really a fiction story. Very nicely done. I am glad I kept reading. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
This is such a good novel, really a amazing insight into another culture!
Loved it! Although the ending could have been not so "Hollywood like".
...more
Aug 28, 2008
Lynai
marked it as to-read
Sep 05, 2008
Lacresha
marked it as to-read
