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Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century
Sam Kashner
3.76 AVERAGE
168 reviews for:
Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century
Sam Kashner
3.76 AVERAGE
informative
relaxing
medium-paced
Really interesting look at two people I knew very little about. Reading this made me more interested in seeing their old films.
Wow, what a couple! Before Angelina and Brad, the world had Richard and Elizabeth (or as the press called them, "Liz & Dick", a nickname that they deplored) and honestly, one could say that they are way more famous than Brad and Angelina ever could be. But they were possibly also just as toxic and dysfunctional. But did they love each other? Totally. Their love was like an explosive tidal wave that swept them both away. Their's was a relationship of indulgence and too-muchness. Their excess was something that bled into their addictions and I think they could have been considered to be addicted to each other. But in the end they helped one another, they changed one another for the better, and had they inhabited another age possibly could have survived all the things they endured. In the end, all I remembered reading was that these two loved one another, but it was a love that burned too hot to last.
4.5/5 stars
4.5/5 stars
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
The writing was very nicely done, but really lacked concision and therefore forward momentum. Bias to be expected
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Really well-written biography of Elizabeth and Richard's relationship, just every page high drama of their affairs and marriages. The excess and public spectable is like nothing that ever was or will be - with the money and fame and sex and fighting. Probably horrific for everyone involved but entertaining now.
I bought this book when it first came out in 2010. I remember loving the cover, loving the idea of reading about a torrid romance. That is what swept me in and kept me reading.
While this book is a heavily biased (likely romanticized) biography, it was interesting to learn a perspective about the relationship. I especially enjoyed reading the excerpts of letters from RB to ETB.
Nice light(ish) tabloid read that gave a lot of perspective of the time that RB and ETB were stars in Hollywood.
While this book is a heavily biased (likely romanticized) biography, it was interesting to learn a perspective about the relationship. I especially enjoyed reading the excerpts of letters from RB to ETB.
Nice light(ish) tabloid read that gave a lot of perspective of the time that RB and ETB were stars in Hollywood.
This was very well written. I would recommend it to anyone into memoirs, celebrity biographies, and romance novels. I usually donate what I have read and only keep what I want to reread. I have moved twice since reading this book for the first time and still have it.
2018 review:
I have no idea why past me bought this book. Maybe it was cheap? I don't watch old movies, I didn't know anything about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton (their names sounded familiar, but that was the extent of my knowledge) and I don't read a lot of non-fiction. All in all there is nothing to suggest this would appeal to me.
But it turns out Taylor and Burton are actually fascinating people, with an interesting and at times heart-breaking history. The pressure of being "Liz and Dick" ruined their marriage just as much as they themselves did. But despite it all they clearly loved each other to the end.
I have no idea why past me bought this book. Maybe it was cheap? I don't watch old movies, I didn't know anything about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton (their names sounded familiar, but that was the extent of my knowledge) and I don't read a lot of non-fiction. All in all there is nothing to suggest this would appeal to me.
But it turns out Taylor and Burton are actually fascinating people, with an interesting and at times heart-breaking history. The pressure of being "Liz and Dick" ruined their marriage just as much as they themselves did. But despite it all they clearly loved each other to the end.
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced