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Title: Arthur Golden fantasizes
Review: This book is a page-turner. I can't speak to its cultural accuracy, but in the context of the novel it was very convincing. What ruined the book was its ending. I won't give it away, but will say that the ending was wrong, wrong, wrong - it completely didn't fit the main character. The ending just confirmed that the author, despite his writing skill, was a man who can't really imagine what it is to be female, or what would really make this geisha happy. It is so sad that a writer with this much talent buys the Hollywood image of women as shallow. The book would have been so much better without the cliched, unbelievable, storybook ending!
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