![]() For one thing: who cares? It’s not as if the Chairman were a depraved criminal. ![]() (Granted, I’ve only read the Moby Illustrated Classics version in grade school). The fact that the Chairman turns out to Sayuri’s "benefactor," as it were, does not contribute to the story in any sort of manner near the similar revelation in Great Expectations. This is not to say that the author is another Charles Dickens, although in places he seems to be trying to emulate (or borrow from) the latter. I, however, didn’t feel the letdown experienced by many of the other readers, and overall I found the work adequately consuming. (Admittedly, reading reactions such as these tend to bias one before even starting to read a book, but seeing that I have a finite amount of time I must limit my perusals in some fashion.) In an interview with the author himself, he agreed that (if I remember correctly) the ending seemed somewhat an attempt to tie up the loose ends of a first novel. ![]() ![]() Having glanced around on (that’s where I discovered Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha to begin with), I read not a few responses from other readers that indicated the plot simply fell apart - or maybe faded away - in somewhere in the middle of the story. ☰ Review: Memoirs of a Geisha Title Memoirs of a Geisha Author Arthur Golden Publisher Alfred A. Review: Memoirs of a Geisha Garret Wilson ![]()
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