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Title: memories of better books keep coming to my mind
Review: As a youth I enjoyed reading Clavel's Shogun as well as C.W. Nicol's Harpoon. Bonchi and Musashi are other novels of early Japan I enjoyed.So I didn't think twice about picking up a copy of this book. I regret I payed so much for it even though it was on sale. Fortunatley, a used book store offered me a good trade.Poorly written and quite booring. Ten years of research may have provided the author with ample facts to assemble. but he should have spent more time developing a style with which to write it. It gave me no feel for the main character or her life. Lifeless and colorless best describes this book.I hope the screen writer is better with the movie than the author was with this book. I highly doubt I will watch it except briefly on TVThe only good thing is that like Titanic which was a good film and the recent Pearl Harbor which was a turky it causes interest in the geisha and the time period from which they came.
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