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title: "The Richard Burton Diaries"
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# The Richard Burton Diaries

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## Customer Reviews

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    BURTON, WARTS AND ALL, BUT WHO WILL READ A DIARY?
  

*by B***G on Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2017*

Burton can salvage a film like my favorite, WHERE EAGLES DARE, an adventure fantasy, wherehis commanding screen presence and voice demands our belief, making for fun at the movies.Few will likely read this book, with perhaps just one or two reading this review, but so it goes.Curiosity, not idolatry, brings Burton to life as he alone lived a life knowing the mindlessness of celebrity,that accidents and sheer dumb luck, combined with his marriage to the only other movie icon of histime, resulted in mind boggling wealth, access or demand for connection by all rich or famous, and whichcontributed to If not coined concepts of the “jet setter” and the few who might be crowned “the beautiful people..” Behind that facade, which Burton recognized as phony to the point of nonstop mortification,we are treated to pages of wit, insight and a battle never winnable to rise above it all as the son of aWelsh coal miner..His love and obsession over Elizabeth channeled his energy into a welcome distractionaway from the nonsense of it all..He retreated to books as his second line of defense, thus maintaining his blindness from the maelstrom of adulation surrounding the two for over a decade, then for more.Of course, Burton was a man like all filled with contradictions, embracing the lavish life of movie star,scorning movie making as boring and tedious, with financial success of a picture beyond creative skill;indulgence in food and drink beyond imagination, while disgusted by drunks and drunkenness, who wereplentiful within family and closest friends; impatience with snobbery while embracing mostly those most wealthy; demanding that he maintain his health, surely essential to the appearance of a screen idol,while periodically going on the wagon and dieting to avoid the bloating he and Elizabeth fought daily.Gossip is part of it all but not in abundance and surely not near any level to induce purchasing the book.So, readership is limited to the curious, and only those willing to slog through 600 pages plus to assesshow Burton both handled and mishandled it all..Since Burton died before 60, he failed to master it all.

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    Fantastic
  

*by N***N on Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2018*

I am still reading this tome, at over 700 pages it is not light reading, nor a book you can knock off in a day or two.  The early years of Richard Burton's diaries are pretty mundane, even boring--just reporting days of note, or ordinary things in his life...but the later years, his years that included Elizabeth Taylor as his lover, & later wife, make the book worthwhile for fans.  Richard's voice comes thru in his diary pages, his humor as well as snippets of Shakespeare & other movie dialogue make for fun reading.  I have been a long-time fan of his voice, as well as his acting chops, & found this book a real treat.  I am so glad he stuck with the diary, it's a real fly-on-the-wall peek into his life.

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    Mostly Intersting Reading, Lame Presentation
  

*by M***M on Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2020*

Richard Burton's private diaries, apparently presented in their entirety, are more interesting than one might expect. He could certainly turn a sentence, and he's a smart, amusing observer of himself and others. Because he was so rich and so famous, he met and tells stories about not just others in the entertainment industry, but political leaders and royalty. He's painfully aware of his alcoholism. Some of the early entries (he was about 13) of school, chapel, sport practice and air raid drills get repetitive but you can see what a 13 year old boy in Wales thought about during World War II. There are holes of years when he kept no diaries so you won't hear his versions of his divorces. But overall lots of good and well-told stories. Unfortunately the footnotes (which comprise about a third of the  book)  are remarkably unilluminating. For example in the text Burton will mention a book he's reading and the author's name and the footnote will say the title of the book, the name of the author and the publication date. Or the footnote for an entry mentioning Peter O'Toole  will say something like "Peter O'Toole, British actor b. 1932" Wouldn't you expect someone reading Richard Burton's diary to know who Peter O'Toole is?  If the footnotes had been more informative, I'd have given four stars.

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