The Loved One

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Summary: PET CEMETARY
Review: This book "The Loved One" starts off as a boring book but by the end of the novel the books starts to get a little more enteresting. The novel ends up as a funny and emmotional novel.

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Summary: Dead people get makeovers too.
Review: This story is a funny yet somewhat serious novel. It makes fun of the cemetaries but it is solemn about the death of Sir Francis, Barlows friend that took him in. It captures Sir Ambrose as the Englishman of Hollywood that only cares about himself. This is overall a pretty good book.

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Summary: An interesting novel, but slow and unwitty.
Review: The Loved One was a very interesting book which had it's good and somewhat funny parts. It's questionable though, whether the good parts outnumber the bad. Some of the good parts are when Dennis first meets Aimee' and the times when the book would be describing the parts with Mr. Slump as the Guru Brahmin with his secretary and the other writer. The parts that made me either reread the part over again or just fall asleep were in the beginning when Dennis and Sir Francis were conversing or when Dennis first goes to Whispering Glades. Other parts pretty much just disturbed me. In the long run, the book was well written and it just depends what type of books you like to enjoy this. If your looking for a laugh out loud must read I'm not sure if I would recommend.

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Summary: The Loved One is a story about love and loss.
Review: I feel the story The Loved One was a mind catching novel about loved ones. It keeps you wanting to read more but at the same time wondering why. The story is very morbid and could be disturbing to sensitive people or even people who have lost a loved one lately. The Loved One is brilliantly written and very enjoyable. I found the first chapter to be very confusing and the fifth chapter to be a little slow moving, but other then that I enjoyed reading it.

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Summary: I thought this book was very boring.
Review: Evelyn Waugh's The Loved one was a very boring book. I did not enjoy reading it. This is the most boring book I've ever read. i think there should've been a stronger conflict between Mr. Joyboy and Mr. Barlow. If Evelyn Waugh would've changed some parts it would've been better. For example, Ms. Thanatogenos shouldn't have killed herself. Instead, she should've ditched the Joyboy and left to Europe with Mr. Barlow. Mr. joyboy should've been the one to commit suicide. I seriously do not recommend this novel!

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Summary: The Loved One was not the best but not the worst book.
Review: I thought that the book The Loved One had its exciding parts and its down parts too.The first two chapters where not very exciding, but then when Sir Francis Hinsely killed himself the book got a lot more exciding.I though the parts where they where talking about where to bury him was very unique.It was unique because the cemitary was seperated into many parts and however the person was they whould be buried in a sertin spot, like if the person that you where going to have be buried was a poet that person would be buried in the poem writers section. The characters wheren't very funny. They where all somewhat unhappy. I thought that when they went to Hollywood it was cool because in some books the author makes up places or write about places I have never heard of, but this time I know what he was writing about. Over all I kind of liked the book but I think it could of been better.

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Summary: It was OK.
Review: I never really read a book by Evelyn Waugh. To me I gave this book two stars because at the beggining it took a while for the book to start. This story was O.K. cause some people died in it. It's also tragic because it's about relationships.

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Summary: An Average Book
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 especially liked the Guru Brahmin. 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 or 3 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: Very confusing but with a twist of humor
Review: The Loved One was a good example if how Hollywood can chew you up and spit you out without a care in the world. Dennis was faced with having to put one of his long time friends to rest, which we will all have to do sooner or later. I give the book one thumb up. It kept me very busy over the summer.

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Summary: An enjoyable book to read this summer
Review: The book The Loved One was an enjoyable book to read this long hot summer. While it kept me inside, rather than swimming or playing water polo outside somedays of the summer, it was well worth it. It stands way out in its class with its own destinctivness. The Loved One isnt half bad neither half good. I'd sayit was an excellent book any day.