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Memoirs of a Geisha
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- Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
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This listen captures with great detail the lush glamour of a geisha's world, as well as the brutal realities of indentured servitude. The experience is superior to that of the movie, because each moment is mined for maximum insight. Protocols and relationships, even food and finances, are also meticulously described. The result is total immersion in this fascinating culture.
The narration may seem reserved, but that is appropriate given the book's setting. The sexual content is also very discreet and appropriate. Watching the movie is only getting your feet wet; get the full experience through this listen, a bewitching strong step into not just another time, but another world.
Publisher's summary
It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction - at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful - and completely unforgettable.
Critic reviews
"Astonishing...Breathtaking...You are seduced completely." (Washington Post Book World)
"...a bravura performance, a first novel that provides a vivid view into a largely lost and secret world." (The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review)
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In Russian Winter, the beautiful debut novel by critically acclaimed writer Daphne Kalotay, a famed ballerina’s jewelry auction in Boston reveals long-held secrets of love and family, friendship and rivalry, harkening back to Stalinist Russia. Called “tender, passionate, and moving” by Jenna Blum, the New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us, Russian Winter is a perfect choice for fans of the novels of Debra Dean (The Madonnas of Leningrad), Ann Patchett (Bel Canto), and Ian McEwan (Atonement).
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read this review; Sophisticated and wonderful!
- By Cookie on 01-15-12
By: Daphne Kalotay
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Half a Lifelong Romance
- A Novel
- By: Eileen Chang
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Manzhen is a young worker in a Shanghai factory where she meets Shijun, the son of wealthy merchants. Despite family complications, they fall in love and begin to dream of a shared life together - until circumstances force them apart. When they are reunited after many years, can they start their relationship again? Or is it destined to be the romance of only half a lifetime?
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5 out of 5 stars
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super
- By Marcus Aurelius on 10-05-17
By: Eileen Chang
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Moonlight over Paris
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Robson
- Narrated by: Jane Copland
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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It's the spring of 1924, and Lady Helena Montagu-Douglas-Parr has just arrived in France. On the mend after a near-fatal illness, she is ready to embrace the restless, heady allure of the City of Lights. Her parents have given her one year to live with her eccentric aunt in Paris, and Helena means to make the most of her time. She's quickly drawn into the world of the Lost Generation and its circle of American expatriates, and, with their encouragement, she finds the courage to pursue her dream of becoming an artist.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A pleasant trip to 1924 Paris
- By RueRue on 05-09-16
By: Jennifer Robson
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The Cerulean
- By: Amy Ewing
- Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Sera Lighthaven has always felt as if she didn’t quite belong among her people, the Cerulean, who live in the city above the sky. She is curious about everything - especially the planet her city is magically tethered to - and can’t stop questioning things. Sera has always longed for the day when the tether will finally break and the Cerulean can move to a new planet. But when Sera is chosen as the sacrifice to break the tether, she feels betrayed by everything in which she’d been taught to trust. In order to save her city, Sera must end her own life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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It was ok
- By Kim on 12-16-20
By: Amy Ewing
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East of the Sun
- By: Julia Gregson
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 19 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 157
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Story4 out of 5 stars 109
Autumn 1928. Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful but naive bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows. Victoria, her bridesmaid couldn't be happier to get away from her overbearing mother, and is determined to find herself a husband. And Viva, their inexperienced chaperone, is in search of the India of her childhood, ghosts from the past and freedom.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Indian history takes a back seat to 3 young women
- By Richard on 05-24-16
By: Julia Gregson
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Heat and Dust
- By: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Narrated by: Julie Christie
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 68
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In 1923 the beautiful, spoiled, and bored Olivia, married to Douglas and his career in the Indian Civil Service, outrages the English and Indian communities by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, Douglas’s granddaughter, armed with Olivia’s letters, goes back to the heat and dust and squalor of the bazaars to find out for herself how Olivia could have been so affected by India that she turned her back on her own country.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Short, Rich Novel
- By David P on 01-23-22
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Silver Wattle
- By: Belinda Alexandra
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 441
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 395
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 385
In fear for their lives after the sudden death of their mother, Adéla and Klára must flee Prague to find refuge with their uncle in Australia. Later, Adéla becomes a film director at a time when the local industry is starting to feel the competition from Hollywood. But even while success is imminent, the issues of family and an impossible love are never far away.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Groan, Snore and Wince!
- By OrangeWisteria on 02-12-12
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All Men of Genius
- By: Lev AC Rosen
- Narrated by: Emily Gray
- Length: 16 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 116
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Set in a steampunk version of Victorian England, Lev AC Rosen’s acclaimed debut novel, All Men of Genius, follows the fantastical adventures of Violet Adams. Determined to attend the prestigious Illyria College, Violet gains entrance by masquerading as her twin brother Ashton. But continuing the scheme turns out to be difficult - especially when “Ashton” is faced with blackmail, killer automata, and possible romance with a young duke.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed story, for the most part.
- By Bryan Doman on 12-10-14
By: Lev AC Rosen
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The Shifting Fog [also published under the alternate title The House at Riverton]
- By: Kate Morton
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,197
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,974
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,964
Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories, long consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Alternate title for "The House at Riverton"
- By Karen on 12-22-13
By: Kate Morton
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The Secret Keeper
- By: Kate Morton
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15,885
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14,192
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14,166
England, 1959: Laurel Nicolson is 16 years old, dreaming alone in her childhood tree house during a family celebration at their home, Green Acres Farm. She spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and then observes her mother, Dorothy, speaking to him. And then she witnesses a crime.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kate Morton (and Caroline Lee) does it again!
- By Maria on 10-20-12
By: Kate Morton
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The Magician's Lie
- A Novel
- By: Greer Macallister
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Nick Podehl
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,458
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,312
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,317
The Amazing Arden is the most famous female illusionist of her day, renowned for her notorious trick of sawing a man in half on stage. One night in Waterloo, Iowa, with young policeman Virgil Holt watching from the audience, she swaps her trademark saw for a fire ax. Is it a new version of the illusion, or an all-too-real murder? When Arden's husband is found lifeless beneath the stage later that night, the answer seems clear.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too Fantastic
- By Ms. Lucy on 02-22-15
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After the War Is Over
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Robson
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 131
After four years as a military nurse, Charlotte Brown is ready to leave behind the devastation of the Great War. The daughter of a vicar, she has always been determined to dedicate her life to helping others. Moving to busy Liverpool, she throws herself into her work with those most in need, only tearing herself away for the lively dinners she enjoys with the women at her boardinghouse.
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3 out of 5 stars
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More romance than history
- By RueRue on 08-17-16
By: Jennifer Robson
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The Magus
- By: John Fowles
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 26 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 900
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 795
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Story4 out of 5 stars 804
John Fowles’s The Magus was a literary landmark of the 1960s. Nicholas Urfe goes to a Greek island to teach at a private school and becomes enmeshed in curious happenings at the home of a mysterious Greek recluse, Maurice Conchis. Are these events, involving attractive young English sisters, just psychological games, or an elaborate joke, or more? Reality shifts as the story unfolds. The Magus reflected the issues of the 1960s perfectly, and it continues to create tension and concern today.
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4 out of 5 stars
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One of the best novels that I really think I hate.
- By Darwin8u on 01-29-14
By: John Fowles
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The Samurai's Garden
- A Novel
- By: Gail Tsukiyama
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 448
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 392
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The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Gail Tsukiyama uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for her unusual story about a 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen who is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen learns Matsu's secret and gains not only physical strength, but also profound spiritual insight.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Novel Painted with a Master's Brush
- By Bay Area Califa on 06-25-18
By: Gail Tsukiyama
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The Magnolia Palace
- A Novel
- By: Fiona Davis
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,826
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,613
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,602
Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, 21-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought-after artists' models in New York City, with statues based on her figure gracing landmarks from the Plaza Hotel to the Brooklyn Bridge
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3 out of 5 stars
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This isn't my favorite but entertaining
- By Linda on 02-01-22
By: Fiona Davis
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Wicked
- The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
- By: Gregory Maguire
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 9,518
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 6,651
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Story4 out of 5 stars 6,690
Heralded as an instant classic of fantasy literature, Maguire has written a wonderfully imaginative retelling of The Wizard of Oz told from the Wicked Witch's point of view. More than just a fairy tale for adults, Wicked is a meditation on the nature of good and evil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's not easy being green
- By PangaeaReads on 07-30-08
By: Gregory Maguire
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
- By: Amy Tan
- Narrated by: Amy Tan, Joan Chen
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,202
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 718
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 723
Set in contemporary San Francisco and in a Chinese village where Peking Man is being unearthed, The Bonesetter's Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, its most profound hopes. Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, brilliantly presents "storytelling in its oldest and truest form".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptionally good
- By Eileen Finn on 03-25-03
By: Amy Tan
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Mary E. Johnson
- 01-03-06
Educational and entertaining
What an amazing story! Enjoyed exploring another culture. Extremely well written and read. Can't wait to see the movie.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Patricia B Tripoli
- 12-30-06
A Must!
This book was so wonderful! It is by far my most favorite of those with an oriental flavor. I learned much and have so much more of an understanding of the thought process of that culture.
Do not just see the movie (which was awful in comparison). Get this book!!
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Nancy
- 04-10-08
Loved it!
I've had the book for years and finally read it when I d/l the audiobook. So glad I did, I even watched the movie, which... of course, wasn't nearly as good as the book. The narrator did an excellent job and had me so interested, that I would fall asleep w/ my mp3 player and earphones in because I didn't want to stop listening.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- STEVEN M KING
- 12-15-05
Powerful
An absolutely wonderful book read by an outstanding narrator. A must have!
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- VI
- 03-26-18
Loved it!
The story was filled with so much detail. Listening to the story and the way it was narrated, it was like I could see her memories.
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- Trish
- 02-24-13
i love it
Where does Memoirs of a Geisha rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
i got this one because i already have the ebook, movie and sound track and i figured that this would finish off the set and it is a good way to learn how to say the words that you dont know know
What did you like best about this story?
i have loves this book since i read it the first time. i read the book after watching the movie and i wanted to see how different it was from the movie
What about Bernadette Dunne’s performance did you like?
i have nothing to comaplane about when Beradette Dunne reads the book, i wouldnt have chosen anyone else
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
i was able to get the book in the unabridged format, i listened to it abridged and it left a lot to be desired.
Any additional comments?
this is a note to the editor, Chiyo was sold about about a year before her parents died and she wasnt known as Sayuri until she was about 15
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Amy
- 12-21-17
So amazing.
A wonderful audio book, all around. I w as sad to finish it. Awesome narration, incredible writing.
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- JanBreesmom
- 04-17-12
The Life of a Geisha
If you could sum up Memoirs of a Geisha in three words, what would they be?
Japan, kimono, tea house
What was one of the most memorable moments of Memoirs of a Geisha?
When Sayori and the Chairman finally talk in the upstairs room.
What about Bernadette Dunne’s performance did you like?
She has a lovely voice that is well suited to narrate this book.
Who was the most memorable character of Memoirs of a Geisha and why?
The main character (Chiyo/Sayori). the story is told from her point of view. Her "older sister" was also an unforgettable character.
Any additional comments?
This was a beautiful, raw story. The writer was not shy about telling of the poverty and the pain, the ugliness of life but also told of the hope, the beauty, and the resiliency of the people who went through such hardship. It also tells of the day-to-day life of these people and the struggles they overcame
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Jennifer
- 01-06-14
I would give it 10 stars
There is not much I can say that hasn't been said about the story. I listen to about 5 books a week and I would put this in the top 20 of about 800 books I have listened to. I don’t have any knowledge of the Japanese or Asian cultures so this was a journey into another world literally. This is my first experence with Bernadette Dunne however she quietly draws you in and holds your attention magnificently. A MUST READ!!
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- Magdalena
- 04-25-20
Rich Words to paint worlds
Heart breaking at times,
but always, always wonderful
it's way of beautifully painting things in your mind will have you recalling places and sceenes and people you've never actually seen.
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