1bruce1.livejournal.com Website Review

Books that have not been recapped are just numbers, have not been done (To save space, since LJ has a limit, I REMOVED the TV and misc recaps--they can still be found in our profile--and I have STOPPED linking additional recaps of the same books.) Please let me know if I am missing any recaps you've done or read! I might be dating myself just a little bit here, but this book is nothing but Sweet Valley High on steroids. Just substitute blond hair, blue eyed, perfect size six figures for As*an looks, stir in every single name brand label from The Devil Wears Prada and shake vigorously with as much over-the-top displays of p*rn wealth and Kevin Kwan has written himself a book. A book that might as well have 1AS*AN1 embossed on the cover and come fully equipped with a bottle of wine and an unlimited supply of paper Francine Pascal should really push Kevin Kwan into the nearest pool...atop a fifty-seven story building in Singapore. Rachel and Nick (Elizabeth Wakefield and Todd Wilkins?) do not make a story. Astrid and Michael (the b-plot) try to be the other half of the story but they fail too. Theres nothing here but 527 pages of redundant description of extravagant living and a huge ensemble cast of As*an characters that the reader will quickly give up trying to remember, much less care about. No, its all about the wealth. The 40 million dollar wedding Rachel and Nick attend and how Princess Astrid (Lila Fowler?) blows nearly the same amount on couture from Paris every year just for the heck of it until she learns her husband Michael may be cheating on her. Exactly one half of these four characters were born with silver spoons in their mouths, the other half were not. This book also contains references to oral se*, the f-bomb is dropped several times and every single one of the crazy rich characters are also crazy mean...to everyone they meet. Except Nick, of course. Poor Rachel finds a dead fish in her room, for example, but thats about as extreme as the mean pranks get from the CRA crowd. Would tricking someone into eating a shaving cream sundae be too much