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Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century by Sam Kashner, Nancy Schoenberger

2.0

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I wanted so much to like this! Epic Hollywood romance, the tail end of the Studio Era, yachting the Mediterranean, getaways to the Swiss Alps, giant diamonds, wild characters. But this clunky, exhaustive chronological retelling of the evolution/devolution of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s epic love affair, while entertaining in places, was mostly a drag that I found myself working hard to push through and finish.