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Furious Love
- Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
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Summary
The definitive story of Hollywood's most famous couple.
He was a tough-guy Welshman softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman; she was a modern-day Cleopatra madly in love with her own Mark Antony. For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty, and their fiery romance - often called "the marriage of the century" - was the most notorious, publicized, and celebrated love affair of its day.
For the first time, Vanity Fair contributing editor Sam Kashner and acclaimed biographer Nancy Schoenberger tell the complete story of this larger-than-life couple, showing how their romance and two marriages commanded the attention of the world. And for the first time, in exclusive access given to the authors, Elizabeth Taylor herself gives never-revealed details and firsthand accounts of her life with Burton.
Drawing upon brand-new information and interviews and on Burton's private, passionate, and heartbreaking letters to Taylor, Furious Love sheds new light on the movies, the sex, the scandal, the fame, the brawls, the booze, the bitter separations, and, of course, the fabled jewels. It offers an intimate glimpse into Elizabeth and Richard's privileged world and their elite circle of friends, among them Princess Grace, Montgomery Clift, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Peter O'Toole, Michael Caine, Marlon Brando, Rex Harrison, Mike Nichols, Laurence Olivier, Robert Kennedy, Tennessee Williams, Noel Coward, John Huston, Ava Gardner, the Rothschilds, Maria Callas, and Aristotle Onassis. It provides an entertaining, eye-opening look at their films, their wildly lucrative reign in Europe and in Hollywood, and the price they paid for their extravagant lives.
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- Amazon Customer
- 17-10-19
absolutely brilliant
A page Turner from the word go. A sublime audio book that takes you back in time when film stars were true icons.
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- Atomic Girl
- 30-09-23
Great book. Patchy performance.
I enjoyed, but the male narrator doing female voices? Why not just hire a woman? It's a big publisher. There should be a budget. His reading Elizabeth's passages the narrator just sounded fey and weak. The story is obviously gripping but it could have done with a few more voices. His female voice was awful and the Welsh/Irish accents... pretty awful too.
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- Jo Evans
- 12-12-22
Great story, but poorly written and narrated
Despite the dreadful staccato narrator and his unintentionally hilarious accents (Irish instead of Welsh, an Australian accent that made me laugh out loud in the street on my dog walk and a very camp-sounding ET), dreadful pronunciation of place names, the book needing a good edit to cut out all the times it repeats itself, and the SHEER NUMBER of times the word “beautiful” is used to describe ET. Despite all that, it’s a fascinating read (listen, rather) of an intense and turbulent and glamorous relationship. It’s clearly well researched - although as it was written whilst ET was still alive, and in collaboration with her, so I suspect some of her story may have been somewhat sanitised in its portrayal and not quite as “warts and all” as Richard’s. Enjoyable roller coaster of a book though…if you can get over the narrator. (His Richard Burton is good though oddly)
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- flowertoes
- 15-04-20
Takes me back... y could not
I found myself nearly crying at the end of this book,I really do think that Elizabeth and Richard were the loves of their lives,it was only when they became liz and Dick that the mayhem took over drinking sent Burton into an early grave,but that had started before he met Elizabegh Taylor and they at times torchered each other,but still they could not live with each other and could not without each other..but an enduring for better or for worse love.
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- irene
- 08-04-13
A Must Read for All Fans of Hollywoodland
Don't make the mistake of thinking "Oh I know all there is to know about the Liz & Dick Saga". This book is packed full of new information - a lot of it first hand from Elizabeth Taylor herself. The reader is carried along into their world of love, tantrums and turmoil. It definitely is the sort of book that you hate to finish reading. Not just for the romantics among us, this will appeal to all fans of Hollywood, brimming with little gems and laugh out loud moments at some of the ridiculousness yet loveability of those who live the golden life. Theirs indeed was a furious love.
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- Gio
- 30-05-21
FANTASTIC
Richard Burton remains the most greatest actor of all time in my eyes Elizabeth Taylor. Oh my god what a live story two forces of nature destined to be together. And rest in peace dear Richard and Elizabeth you forever loved in my heart for your great talent and for the love of life and for helping others with less than yourselves. God bless you both rest dear R&E.
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- Mojo
- 06-07-17
TERRIBLE READER
What did you like best about Furious Love? What did you like least?
Second time I've listended to this book and I loved the detail and content. I hated the reader. he has no understanding of either phrasing or corect pronunciation. He reads each phrase as if it is a complete sentence.
What didn’t you like about Paul Boehmer’s performance?
The man cannot pronounce fairly standard French sayings, and his attempt at Welsh names is awful ( I know they are difficult) but he could have been taught how to say these words correctly. He seems not to understand that a comma is not a full stop, so every phrase has the wrong downward inflection.
Could you see Furious Love being made into a movie or a TV series? Who would the stars be?
Yes, but who could play these people?!
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