Latest reviews about Memoirs Of A Geisha

jazzybean01 says "It's not about selling skin but about selling talent" about Memoirs Of A Geisha

jazzybean01 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:51:10 GMT

Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Suzuka Ohgo, Ken Watanabe and Li Gong play in this amazing movie about a young girl brought up in a geisha house.

The movie starts in a small village by the ocean where a small girl, Chiyo, and her sister are sold to a man for a better life. They are then sent to different houses in the city. Chiyo goes to a geisha house and does chores. Soon she is off to geisha school. When she becomes an apprentice her name is changed to Sayuri (which then changes to Nitta Sayuri when she become a full geisha). Under the tutoring of the towns most popular geisha Mameha, Sayuri learns how to be the best geisha.
Soon World War II arrives to their small town and everything changes. Sayuri and Mameha are split up and everyone lives apart for years. Then after World War II Sayuri has to learn to live in a world where anyone with a little makeup can call themselves a geisha (a word meaning artist).

I don't want to spoil anything so that's where I'm ending it. ......

maha18 says "Best - Book - Ever" about Memoirs Of A Geisha

maha18 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:32:20 GMT

I would never have picked up this book on my own, but a friend highly recommended it. That was about 5 years ago. Since then I have read it twice a year. It is a phenominal book and extremely well written. You feel like you are experiencing her life, first hand. A must!...

christyw999 says "Ran out of stuff to read, this was a nice surprise" about Memoirs Of A Geisha

christyw999 — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:48:39 GMT

Very well written and moving, made you feel like you were there. Wonderful and painful story with no sugar coating....

tina257 says "I had no desire to read this book, but I'm so glad I did. " about Memoirs Of A Geisha

tina257 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:52:38 GMT

This review is a little late, because I initially had no desire to read this book. I picked it up while in a bookstore on a whim because it was on sale and I've had a fascination with tales of Japanese culture since I first read Shogun when I was young. I was immediately hooked just reading the first couple of pages. The pace is quick and if drama is conflict then this is just loaded with drama. I found myself so wrapped up in this young woman's story I couldn't put it down, There was something almost lyrical about it as well as having a depth of emotion as it followed her from her early and brief childhood in a fishing village to being sold into slavery to the okiya where she is to learn how to become a geisha. Sayuri is a protagonist in a world that is now vanished, but she brings it to life for us in full color. I'm not generally a fan of love stories but this one is wrapped in history and culture the way Sayuri is wrapped in kimonos, rich and detailed and layered, and my...

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