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Crazy, Rich, Crazy Rich

December 9, 2018 by Fiat.Luxury 1 Comment

The Fug Girls made me read this.  The photos of the premiers of Crazy Rich Asians were all just so glam.  I obviously had to see the movie.  I mean:   But I can’t see the movie if I haven’t read the book.  So I obviously had to read the book. By now you probably know the main plot: woman (Rachel) goes to Singapore to meet boyfriend’s (Nick) family.  Turns out he’s rich like whoa.  She is blindsided by the money, the lifestyle, and the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: crazy, crazy rich, crazy rich asians, Kevin Kwan, more mah jong please, rich, the movie was better

Fiat.Luxury's CBR10 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: crazy, crazy rich, crazy rich asians, Kevin Kwan, more mah jong please, rich, the movie was better ·
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Left Behind in a Shack to eat Chicken Soup with Kirk Cameron. Jesus.

May 25, 2017 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

There is a pretty good story, here, but it’s lost in the sonorous ramblings of a man too fixated on scenery. Do I need to provide a synopsis? Surely we’ve all seen the movie (not the new one, which I assume is atrocious). In short: it’s a revenge tale, of a first century Jewish man who has his life ruined by a childhood friend, a Roman. Judah Ben Hur spends years as a galley slave, before lucking his way back into wealth and the good […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Religion Tagged With: Ben Hur, best selling book, classic, Lew Wallace, Shiloh, the movie was better

ingres77's CBR9 Review No:43 · Genres: Fiction, History, Religion · Tags: Ben Hur, best selling book, classic, Lew Wallace, Shiloh, the movie was better ·
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