Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I'm not that interested in celebrities as a general rule and I would never have picked this book on my own, but it was one of my mom's few recent books I found in her apartment. She moved a lot and didn't tend to keep her books from move to move.
I had two main issues. The first was that it should have been edited down and shortened. The second was that I didn't enjoy the first chapter and almost stopped reading right away because of it. The first chapter is a sloppy attempt to get us to Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton while basically skipping over their early lives, but still mentioning their early lives. A subsequent chapter goes back to deal with things more chronologically.
But in general, given that I wasn't even originally interested in the topic, I felt a little obsessed after reading the book. I was talking about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, looking up their films, looking up youtube clips of them, and even dreaming about them. (We went yachting and watched their daughter Maria play.) I didn't really know anything about them in advance - a bit more about ET than RB but not much. The photos in the book helped place the story a bit but the Youtube videos were a must for me.
Youtube videos:
Mike Todd: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QaIJhl1...
Cleopatra: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HKH69k7...
1970: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tuViKfZ...
50th birthday: https://youtu.be/4xWdH047vEs
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