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Too Damn Rich
Pursuing their respective dreams at Burghley's, Manhattan's most prestigious art auction house, three beautiful women are thwarted by a master criminal who threatens their futures at the moment they reach the pinnacle of success. Reprint.
624 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published August 1, 1995
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Judith Gould
53 books44 followerspseudonym of two authors: Nick Bienes and Rhea (pronounced “Ray”) Gallaher
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March 26, 2018
If you want to lose yourself in the privileged world of the elite...
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March 23, 2010
Funny to read a book with all the prerequisites for a romance -- minor royalty with lots of money, single New York woman looking for a storybook romance, a tycoon with a trophy wife, someone who things he has a social conscience and hates the wealthy, lots of people with lots of money, a ditzy dame who turns out to have brains. Anyway, reads OK but I tired of it towards the end. Figured out the bad guy about halfway through.
January 27, 2026
So, Judith Gould, let's see.
I read Sins many moons ago and, guess what? I read it again, still very much impressed with the impressive plot construction, excellent range of characters and plenty flinty dialogue.
I read Forever many years later. An absurd book filled with adjectives to describe everything - a dress has to be Chanel, a house has to have doric features, the lips have to be carmine etc.
In Too Damn Rich, there's as much going on as the other two books - this one feels a little more randomly constructed. To try and summarize, we have three women, one a social climber (and a very shallow character), one a workin' girl in the world of art and one an impoverished countess with a brother who can't leave the casino. All three happen to be in New York, a city of the very damn rich and all three are more or less in the same 'circle'.
There's affairs, sex - a lot of sex, a love triangle (which I wouldn't say was totally convincing) and, linking the 'books' within the book, a gang of crims ready in the wings for some nefarious deed for a photo finish. Some of the lines are hysterical - I mean really funny, the air crackled with bad vibrations, a couple talking in an oral dance that only they could understand, a pimply youth referring to someone as 'pops', while the authors refer to dancing as unstructured aerobics (!). As well as all these classic lines, we have a character called Bambi who is a mistress/art expert - her sexual affair with a prominent character has some of the silliest lines in the book and while the authors can produce dialogue from the upper and the lower classes, porkin' is just too much.
It was, therefore a great read - lines like 'Seeing was believing, and Dina saw plenty. She was a believer all right.'
I wrote to the Gould team once, as well as a second time more recently. I didn't realise that both had died and when I was Googling this on January 25, 2026, I was very confused that this was a date for the year before. Eventually I'll read their trilogy, but let me just say, they're a real talent. When I'm on a beach in Greece, you just know that I should have The Love-Makers on hand...
I read Sins many moons ago and, guess what? I read it again, still very much impressed with the impressive plot construction, excellent range of characters and plenty flinty dialogue.
I read Forever many years later. An absurd book filled with adjectives to describe everything - a dress has to be Chanel, a house has to have doric features, the lips have to be carmine etc.
In Too Damn Rich, there's as much going on as the other two books - this one feels a little more randomly constructed. To try and summarize, we have three women, one a social climber (and a very shallow character), one a workin' girl in the world of art and one an impoverished countess with a brother who can't leave the casino. All three happen to be in New York, a city of the very damn rich and all three are more or less in the same 'circle'.
There's affairs, sex - a lot of sex, a love triangle (which I wouldn't say was totally convincing) and, linking the 'books' within the book, a gang of crims ready in the wings for some nefarious deed for a photo finish. Some of the lines are hysterical - I mean really funny, the air crackled with bad vibrations, a couple talking in an oral dance that only they could understand, a pimply youth referring to someone as 'pops', while the authors refer to dancing as unstructured aerobics (!). As well as all these classic lines, we have a character called Bambi who is a mistress/art expert - her sexual affair with a prominent character has some of the silliest lines in the book and while the authors can produce dialogue from the upper and the lower classes, porkin' is just too much.
It was, therefore a great read - lines like 'Seeing was believing, and Dina saw plenty. She was a believer all right.'
I wrote to the Gould team once, as well as a second time more recently. I didn't realise that both had died and when I was Googling this on January 25, 2026, I was very confused that this was a date for the year before. Eventually I'll read their trilogy, but let me just say, they're a real talent. When I'm on a beach in Greece, you just know that I should have The Love-Makers on hand...
October 20, 2018
This is the eighth Judith Gould novel I have read and I must say they are a bit of a mixed bag. This one had its moments and did like how all the plots tied up well in the end but was not her best. Without doubt her first novel Sins is her best... A true masterpiece and the other books don't quite compare. This one was just a bit too over the top plot about billionaires and art thieves and royal family inheritances. Still glad I read it but not to same standard as Sins, Dazzle and The Lovemakers which are the best of hers I have read. It is curious though all her books have a very different style like they are all written by a different author! But maybe it is because Judith Gould is a team effort of two men writing together under the Judith Gould moniker.
September 13, 2009
very rich circle of friends and a large art heist at an auction house
August 5, 2012
August 2012
January 13, 2014
A very good book. Romance at it best and also full of drama.
loved it. Praise and stars!
loved it. Praise and stars!
August 14, 2015
Intersting premise. I liked it.
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April 11, 2017
I usually enjoy Judith Gould books, but this one was a chore to read. It was a thick novel, Gone with the Wind size, the print was very small and painfully light. An addendum at the end of the book explained the print choice, but it was so small I couldn't even read it, and at this point I could care less! There were some characters that I really liked, and made the book bearable. The title actually tells the story, Too Damn Rich!!!
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