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Hikari-chan Lotus Crystal
Title : Honestly, I’ve never fit in with the world. I was always alone. Posts : 8662 Join date : 2013-05-26 Age : 33
| Subject: Memoirs of a Geisha 1st June 2015, 7:56 pm | |
| Has anyone read the book Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur S. Golden? What are your thoughts? |
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Yumi Senior Member Saturn Emeritus
Title : (∩`-´)⊃━☆゚.*・。magical weirdo, Original Saturn Posts : 9410 Join date : 2011-08-19 Age : 33 Location : Scranton, Pa
| Subject: Re: Memoirs of a Geisha 1st June 2015, 8:00 pm | |
| I have seen the movie, but I have had mixed feelings about reading it. Why? Because the movie was long, although I loved it, but I can't imagine reading it. |
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Hikari-chan Lotus Crystal
Title : Honestly, I’ve never fit in with the world. I was always alone. Posts : 8662 Join date : 2013-05-26 Age : 33
| Subject: Re: Memoirs of a Geisha 1st June 2015, 8:12 pm | |
| The book is equally as good, it is long, one of the longest books I think I have read, but its worth it. |
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Yumi Senior Member Saturn Emeritus
Title : (∩`-´)⊃━☆゚.*・。magical weirdo, Original Saturn Posts : 9410 Join date : 2011-08-19 Age : 33 Location : Scranton, Pa
| Subject: Re: Memoirs of a Geisha 1st June 2015, 8:13 pm | |
| Is it similar to the movie? |
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Hikari-chan Lotus Crystal
Title : Honestly, I’ve never fit in with the world. I was always alone. Posts : 8662 Join date : 2013-05-26 Age : 33
| Subject: Re: Memoirs of a Geisha 1st June 2015, 8:26 pm | |
| it is for the most part |
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Professor Tomoe Inner Senshi Admin Activities Director
Title : Formerly Aurae; The Galaxy Cauldron Forums' Official Professor Tomoe Posts : 6250 Join date : 2013-07-23 Location : Chicago
| Subject: Re: Memoirs of a Geisha 2nd June 2015, 5:33 am | |
| I really enjoy this book as a dramatic romance. However, I am bothered by the inaccuracies and a lot of the conflict that occurred after the book was released. The author and his primary "source" had a lot of post-publication disagreements.
You may want to read Geisha, A Life (sometimes titled Geisha of Gion) by Mineko Iwasaki--her own memoir, released in response to allegations surrounding Memoirs of a Geisha.
I definitely like Memoirs of a Geisha as far as just enjoyment, but it's definitely not a real glimpse into what living that life in that time period was like. I wish the author hadn't alleged that it was. |
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Hikari-chan Lotus Crystal
Title : Honestly, I’ve never fit in with the world. I was always alone. Posts : 8662 Join date : 2013-05-26 Age : 33
| Subject: Re: Memoirs of a Geisha 2nd June 2015, 1:51 pm | |
| Omg I love that book- I have it and read it last summer. I absolutely loved it. |
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Cosmos-Hime Moderator
Title : ミ☆ GC's official Sailor Cosmos! ミ☆ Posts : 12832 Join date : 2014-11-14 Age : 31 Location : ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
| Subject: Re: Memoirs of a Geisha 2nd June 2015, 2:15 pm | |
| I've had a copy of the novel for the longest time-I haven't read it yet. I'll get to it eventually. |
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Juliko Lotus Crystal
Title : Current obsession: Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons Posts : 2030 Join date : 2014-12-30 Age : 30 Location : Julia Land
| Subject: Re: Memoirs of a Geisha 11th June 2015, 5:03 pm | |
| I remember seeing commercials of this on TV when it was first coming out, and a snippet of the movie, but it doesn't interest me. |
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Sailor Jupiter Inner Senshi Admin Member Relations Director
Title : *~Jupes | Jupi~* Posts : 4133 Join date : 2014-01-14 Age : 31 Location : USA
| Subject: Re: Memoirs of a Geisha 14th June 2015, 3:28 pm | |
| I completely agree with Aurae. I couldn't have said it better myself. |
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Sakuranbo Pyramidal Crystal
Posts : 149 Join date : 2017-03-21
| Subject: Re: Memoirs of a Geisha 12th June 2018, 7:24 pm | |
| I read the book and watched the movie. Memoirs of a Geisha is a very nice book to read and a very good movie to watch, but I only see them as fiction though because both the book and movie do have some inaccurate information about Geisha. I am currently reading Mineko Iwasaki's book Geisha, a Life aka Geisha of Gion and it's a really good book too. |
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