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Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

7 reviews

courtneykatzmeyer's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Trafficking, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Alcoholism, Child death, and Abortion

rochelleisreading's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and War

Moderate: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Abortion, and Alcohol

Minor: Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

mandyrose's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Positive: There are some beautiful metaphors in this novel making use of water & nature.
Negative: It was painful reading a novel centred around a woman being tossed around by men. And I didn’t love the ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Alcoholism and Abortion

kshertz's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Enough time has passed that I forgot the movie. It is super interesting that a dude wrote this book. At times it is super obvious. Especially with talking about losing virginity and women’s bodies. But I was still intrigued and really enjoyed reading the book. I couldn’t put it down. Now I have to go watch the movie again.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Abortion, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

hanniquinn's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Confinement, Physical abuse, Grief, Stalking, Sexual harassment, and War

Minor: Child death, Death, Blood, Vomit, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Classism

suchsweetsorrow89's review against another edition

dark informative tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

I honestly went into this book hesitant because it follows the plot of a young Japanese woman in WWII but is written by a white man. Because of this, the book has no real narrative for Sayuri. And this is a shame because the book is written in the first person and could have been used to portray a powerful story about the transition from girlhood to womanhood, how concepts and the idea of what a woman changes when this geisha role is assigned to her. As for the war, this was only really added at the end and just sped past it-- which again is a shame because it had the potential to cover grief, rage, imperialism, violence, and all the other big things that come with the war in such a powerful way. All this to say, I would not recommend this book to anyone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Grief, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and War

Moderate: Alcoholism and Death of parent

liab's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

Empezando el libro noté que bien diferente a la película, así que voy a tomar la historia del libro como si fuera una historia diferente. La autobiografía de la geisha que el autor basó la historia también se puede encontrar. Este libro da más información y una imagen completa de la chica. Ando notando que la protagonista da comentarios crudos de la gente, pero es más notable los comentarios del peso de la gente. Me gusta mucho cuando llegas al capítulo 9 vemos con más detalles cuando decidió en ser Geisha. Ya siguiendo en el libro el autor exagera muchos detalles, pero lo que es más cansado es la obsesión que la protagonista tiene con el presidente. En realidad yo no tengo mucha información sobre las geisha’s pero me roba de mala manera de que la protagonista tiene que darse a si misma sexualmente. Tengo un problema con el autor cuando viene con Nobu, el trabaja en la compañía del El Presidente con que la protagonista no puede parar de pensar, Nobu se describe como una persona con una personalidad fuerte pero el es buena persona pero en el libro vemos más la buena persona que es Nobu. Ya para el capítulo veintiséis esperaba que la protagonista aprendiera que su obsesión con el presidente no va a llegar a nada y que ella es muy mala por usar a Nobu pero no, ella es el mismo tono.

El libro termino en aburriéndome y como sea cuando la protagonista tuvo lo que quizo desde el principio ella se tuvo que ir de su comunidad y no estaba completamente feliz, pero ella como sea le da la idea de ir a NY y abrir una tienda de té para mantener al presidente… que final más anticlamatico 


Nota- busque sobre la información de mizuage, como el libro lo explica es medio incompleto.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Sexual content, Slavery, Blood, and Alcohol

Moderate: Body shaming, Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury