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A review by stealingyoursunbeams
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
4.0
To be honest, I don't much care if Memoirs of a Geisha did include some inaccurate facts (according to the Internet). Arthur Golden did a splendid job in writing a thoroughly engrossing novel that escorts the reader into a rich universe of culture and human drama.
I finished this in less than a week because the prose is amazingly fluid. Even in the passages where Sayuri is pining over someone (e.g. her sister, her parents, the Chairman), it never gets boring because Golden doesn't let her be still for too long. I think that's great because Sayuri is in a world of constant change and motion, which allows her only a few minutes at a time to be overwhelmed.
However, I did find it a little irksome that Golden liked to use comparisons, i.e. comparing Sayuri's hunger for the Chairman to a hungry maid's desire to eat a pear, etc. It gets a little annoying to read it in every chapter. But it doesn't hinder the story at all, so no big deal.
All in all, this was one of the better books I've ever read. It definitely merits a reread someday.
I finished this in less than a week because the prose is amazingly fluid. Even in the passages where Sayuri is pining over someone (e.g. her sister, her parents, the Chairman), it never gets boring because Golden doesn't let her be still for too long. I think that's great because Sayuri is in a world of constant change and motion, which allows her only a few minutes at a time to be overwhelmed.
However, I did find it a little irksome that Golden liked to use comparisons, i.e. comparing Sayuri's hunger for the Chairman to a hungry maid's desire to eat a pear, etc. It gets a little annoying to read it in every chapter. But it doesn't hinder the story at all, so no big deal.
All in all, this was one of the better books I've ever read. It definitely merits a reread someday.