One of the most overrated popular fiction books to come out in recent years. First, Arthur Golden's flowery writing irritated the crap out of me. Second, the book felt inauthentic. Let me elaborate. I also found Memoirs of a Geisha little offensive, this asshole white guy presenting this fetishized idea of Japanese culture and history, based on western stereotypes of the Japanese. So he reinforced these stereotypes for all the people who just ate this shit right up because they don't know any better or they don't care because it's fiction so dude, get over it. Blarrrghghghghg.