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I did not expect to get so into this. I have always liked old Hollywood and recently read some article that had a quote of something kind of explicit Burton wrote about Taylor and I was like "...dang, no wonder she was so into him." He had a gift for language. Anyway, that led me to this book which I completely loved. Their romance was operatic in scale and surreal to read. It was also tragic. I found it very moving as it meandered toward its not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper ending. I believe they were truly in love for the entirety of their lives but just could never ever figure out a way to get it to work. It was really sad to read. I also thought this book was very much a love letter to Richard Burton, who has become kind of forgotten, though in his day he was the most famous man in the world. He was a very complicated, troubled and gifted person.