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Summary: An interesting story, with an interesting plot.
Review: This book shows the hardships and challenges many people face today. Acts of violence, death, and betrayal seem like a normal part of the characters' daily lives. Through this book, I came to realize that death is an inevitable part of life that we must accept.
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Summary: It was a good book, though not the best book.
Review: The Loved One When I first started to read it, I thought it was going to be a boring book. Then, slowly, it started to get interesting. It was very well written. I think that it is for advanced readers who can read it and understand it. The storyline gets more challenging as you continue to read it. The storyline and characters' names add irony and make this book the satire that it is. Evelyn Waugh is a very talented writer I think. My congrats go to him. So I suggest that everyone read it.
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Summary: An excellent story with an interesting plot.
Review: The Loved One was an interesting book to read during summer vacation. It looked boring at first, but you can't judge a book by its cover. It was a little boring in the beginning, but then it got a lot better towards the middle and end. I would recommend this book to readers that have a good comprehension. The reason I feel the reader of this book needs to have a good comprehension is that at times I found this book difficult to understand. Otherwise, it was a good novel for mature readers.
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Summary: An all around well written story of life and death
Review: The Loved One is an iteligently written story with plenty of comedy, tragedy, and drama. It is an excellent story for anyone. The characters portrayed in this book are realistic and can be related to easily. This book gave me a new perception of life and death and after reading it I fell I have a better understanding of the two. I recommend this book to anyone. It will give you like it did me a new perception of life. The book talks about death in such a way as to make you feel as if death is nothing at all. Evelyn Waugh is a accomplished writter with a mind for writting. this is one of the best books i have read in a very long time!
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Summary: The book I had to read 2 times to understand it.
Review: It is very hard for me to write a review of this book because it made little sense to me at times. I was expecting much more from this book and from the author. I did enjoy the way he created a very uniqe plot which made the story seem realistic and portray Hollywood as it really is. I think the characters in the story should of been developed with more thought.The only part I really understood was the end because it seemed to come together with the rest of the book.
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Summary: I liked the beginning but not the ending.
Review: I liked the beginning because it was funny especially when they said that Mr.Joyboy would put happy faces on the dead people. I liked this part because it was a weird way to show that you like someone. I did not like that it was written in non-american english because it made it a bit harder to understand. I also didn't like that Amee killed her-self because she did not know who to marry.
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Summary: It was boring at first but picked up later.
Review: The Loved One was a pretty interesting book, and i can't say i have ever (or will ever)read a book like this. It was extremely original and some parts were funny. I must say though that i was expecting more. When I read the back cover it said that The Loved One was a comedy about the commercialization of death. I did not think it was that funny. Also the first three or four chapters bored me, and I had to read them 2 times because I was not paying attention. The end is pretty smart though. Overall I found the book to be average. I liked the end but not the beginning. I would not recommend this book unless you like books with ironic endings or you really like English Literature.
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Summary: I think that the book was very interesting and amusing.
Review: At first I thought that the book was going to be very boring because I didn't understand it, but when I started to pay more attention to it it became more interesting. I thought that the book was amusing because it was making fun of the burial industry. This book really taught me a little more about the burial industry even though it was a satire. Also the characteristics of each character made them different from each other. The deaths of both Sir Francis Hensley and Aimee Thanatogenos also made you want to keep reading to see what happened at the end. And the love triangle between Dennis, Aimee, and Mr. Joyboy also kept me reading to the end. All in all I thought that the book was good.
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Summary: I liked the book, but it was boring in some parts.
Review: The format for the book was excellent, but it started out slow. Talking about all the Englishmen was boring. In the middle, the book picked up a bit. More started to happen. The end was cut off. The main character just died, how stupid is that? Over-all, I enjoyed it, but it could have been better.
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Summary: I thought the book had some okay parts but a little dull.
Review: I thought that the book had a few funny parts but the rest of it was pretty dull. Maybe I just have bad taste, but I did not find all that much of it funny at all. I thought that the book had alot of emotion, which is good, such as the parts when Sir Francis and Miss Thanatogenos commit suicide. The one part that I found funny was when Mr. Slump got tired and annoyed by Miss Thanatogenos's letters and phone call and says," Maybe she should find a high window and jump. Especially with a name like that." Over all though I liked the book more that I disliked it so I found it easier to read.
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