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Title: I bid popular fiction a fond adeiu after this one.
Review: This book at first seemed to me like a modern-day Dicken's novel. I couldn't putit down. I read all 430 pages in three days. The problem is that after the great story development at the beginning of the novel, the last half of the novel is not that informative and, in fact, quite boring. In the end I really feel that for all I learned about geisha, I really didn't learn that much at all!! What do they do during the day, except pine for men old enought to be their grandfathers? After me initial excitment it was with much dissapointment that I finished this novel. I wish a woman had written this insipid drivel so that I could stop hearing about how well Golden writes a female character.
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