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Title: Well-written but implausible
Review: Perhaps I'm jaded after living in Japan for many years, but I don't find this book as fascinating as so many others do. Why should people be so amazed that a man can actually write a woman's character?The implausibility of this well-written, but for me, finally unfulfilling book, is that no geisha would ever even think of spilling her secrets out to anyone. That's what surprises me, since the author is obviously extremely well-versed in Japanese and Japanese culture.It does not rank up there in my list with the great novels of recent memory. Read Delillo's "Underworld" to find masterful modern writing at its best.
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