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Title: Obviously written by a man
Review: My first thought, when I first heard of this book, was how could a white, American man write from the perspective of a Japanese geisha? The book's rave reviews, plus Spielberg's purchase of the story rights, convinced me to read it. It turns out that my original thought was correct. The prose is filled with cliches, and the story is quite inaccurate from the female perspective (particularly the scene where the heroine loses her virginity.) Why must every commercially hot property turn out to be like the script for "Pretty Woman" (i.e. an unrealistic, male fantasy)? How degrading
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