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October 17 2004, 23:56
Okay so I didn't do what I said I would...I rarely ever do. On the list of books that I wanted to read I only read one! ONE!!! I'm so very disappointed in myself.
I read Memoirs of a Geisha and love it so dearly. My friend and I got into a little argument about how we saw it.
She disliked how the girls were just sent into an elitist sort of brothel.
I disagreed. I thought the girls were lucky. It seems in that time of Japan a woman could be one of four things. Wife to a man, wife to a rich man, a whore, or a geisha.
If you think about it, women didn't have a whole lot of choices. All they had were their conventional ways of life that I would never be able to live.
I suppose I am bias when it comes to the geisha school. I happen to go to an art school and their school sounds a great deal like mine. They learn to sing, dance, play an intrument, and act. I've heard that they also learn to paint even though it wasn't mentioned in the book.
My friend asked if I wasn't at all disgusted at the thought of the betting on their virginity and I replied no. People rarely wedded for love so the girls virginity might have been taken by a stranger anyway...and for free. At leaset as a whore or a geisha she was paid. I would choose something over nothing anyday.
Fortunately we both agreed on the beauty of the writing style.
I read a fantastic book in the bath for the last month now. This is my third time reading it since the two years I have owned it. I think it is extraordinary.
I found it while browsing the erotic covers of romance stories in a second hand bookstore( I love those places...and uh...I was ahem, studying human form)
This book did not belong in that isle at all. Yes there is alot of love in this book but it isn't concentrated around one person. It shows the hardships of war between Muslim and the Spanish Christians. It compares the life of a girl from her previous Christian home and suddenly thrown into enemy territory.
There is love between a beauty and a beast but it is unrequited. I felt so much pain for this couple.
Another is between two siblings(yes this is incest but this kind didn't gross me out the way others do. This one makes me hate the parents and tell the siblings to do as they please!) This couple had so much pain that I cried the third time I read it. Could possibly be because I was surrounded by water.
I really suggest this book. I swear it isn't a romance novel like that! It's good. I just love the writing style. It's more than extraordinary, it's an orgasmic jumble of subtle meaning!!!
I'm doing an essay on it! Whoot.
Title: The Infidel
By: Georgia Elizabeth Taylor
I actually don't know if it is a romance novel or not...I really don't think so.
-Hil(I've gone crazy...should I be trusted?)ani