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Title: too repetitive
Review: I completely agree with wishnick's critique, prose with no soul, which was extremely eloquent and intelligently written. I disliked all the characters because they were too superficially drawn, and I felt that the writing was too repetitive. In fact, I skipped about half or more of the book, and merely read the ending because I could never NOT finish a book. Because the author keeps repeating himself over and over to drive in obvious points, I feel that I didn't miss anything, despite my blatant skimming.I'm sure we do get a good idea of what constitutes a geisha's life, though you can probably get better depictions by reading other books about geisha, and hence you can bypass Golden's annoying writing.Fortunately, I borrowed this book from the library! If you are still intrigued with this novel because of the high critical acclaim (unfounded), please just borrow the book. This is the type of novel that does not bear reading twice, or once for that matter.
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