Memoirs of a Geisha. What a scam!

[wandlessmagic]

This has got to top the list of the most misleading book I have ever read.

After Forbidden Love, which was explicitedly stated as an autobiography, but most of it turned out to be made up.  You  may have heard of it.

Anyways, back to Memoirs of a Geisha:

From the Translator's Note (whatever that's supposed to mean):

".... nearly fifty years in the

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[goldensnitch_xx]

I have no idea why this was done. I thought the movie was real as well.

[wandlessmagic]

Wow. So I guess they didn't make it clear in the movie either, that's terrible, and very very misleading.

[narkoleptik]

Well it's kinda why it's in the fiction section, first off... but also it's kind of like Life of Pi in the way that it's executed and told- except Life of Pi takes it one step further and includes a 'manuscript' of a taped converstaion.

I mean, I think it's a part of the story when follow that format so that it could be believable and read as reality- it definitely gives it a different tone than how a 'normal' fiction novel would read and in the case of both 'memoir's..' and 'life of pi' it adds a certain layer of mysticism.

And on another note- if someone handed me a novel about geishas and japan, and looking at the cover, I saw it was written by a white dude... I would be like, 'ew, japanaphile,' and not pay any attention to it. But by passing it off as a memoir (albeit fiction), it kinda neutralizes that.

[wandlessmagic]

Hahaha japanaphile? That's a first :P

Yeah I know what you mean about giving it a different tone, and I agree, I just dislike how the author deliberately mislead its readers. But then again, it wouldn't have been such a good read if I knew it was fiction. Still... it wasn't very nice to find out the truth :(

Ahhh Life of Pi, we were talking about that in school today, apparently it's really good and worth reading, and clearly you think so too! I will read it when I have time.

Thanks :)