Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century

from Gold_Gato

This turned out to be much better than I thought. Instead of the usual gossipy trash one normally sees in celebrity biographies, the authors stay even-keeled and provide the reader with a chronological overview of the Richard Burton/Elizabeth Taylor romance and marriage. They don't really dive in...

from melissarochelle

Before Bennifer, before Brangelina, there was Liz and Dick. Their relationship started the paparazzi craze that is still going strong decades later. I've never seen an Elizabeth Taylor or Richard Burton film, but I became more interested in their story after Taylor's death last year. I only knew ...

from Lisa.Johnson.James

Very well done. It was engaging, fascinating, & a really intimate look at a very public couple. It left me feeling more sorry for them both more than anything. A love of a lifetime, for both of them. Plus, the addition of 2 of Richard's unpublished poems in the back of the book that were found in...

from SigmundFraud

I loved Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century by Sam Kashner. It is not a serious book but it is fun and interesting. I am not cinemate but I like to read about the successful actors and directors in hopes of learning something of how movies are made and ...

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I lost interest and skimmed my way through the book. Liz and Dick have a unique love story. Most people think of Prince Charles and Di as "THE couple" because of the fairy-tale wedding, but I think we can agree that Liz and Dick, at least for a while, loved each other. They tried to make it work ...