I accidentally read book 4 of this series (The Secret of Abdu El Yezadi) before book 1, The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack, so my perspective here may be a little out of whack, but oh well. I think a lot of things meant to be surprises or reveals were not because I’d already seen the results. Burton complains briefly of feeling disconnected, and the reason for that gets fully disclosed in the 4th book, so I guess I missed wondering about that too, […]
The Marriage of the Century
I read How to be a Movie Star after Elizabeth Taylor passed away four years ago and was instantly taken with the story of “Liz& Dick.” Furious Love focuses primarily on the years that Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton shared together. There is background on both of their lives leading up to Rome, 1962 and the Cleopatra set but the star attraction in this biography is the 25 years they spent loving and hating each other. Anyone interested in the history of cinema knows the […]