The Loved One

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Summary: Life in Hollywood can really change someones life.
Review: I enjoyed reading this interesting book by Evelyn Waugh. She did an excellent job on the words that she used describing the characters and their moods. At first it was sort of difficult for me to understand but then I started to catch up on what was going on.All of the characters in which Waugh created did an excellent job of making this novel start to smooth out and make it easier to understand.In my opinion Hollywood is a place where there are a lot of movie stars and tourists who go visit there and have a good time.I never heard of it being like some haunted place that many terrible things happen there such as many great people dying.I would recommend this novel to many other people out there who enjoy the type of plot that Evelyn Waugh had set it to be.I myself enjoyed it and I was thrilled to have a chance to write a report on this novel.

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Summary: This book just wasnt for me
Review: Im going to have to disagree with the majority of the people when i say that this book just wasnt for me. The author did a great job on the plot, and it was very well-written. But to my opinion, this book's setting, and its characters were very odd. (no offense to the author). When the author went and talked about the burial industry, it made me lose track. I, myself, am not clearly interested in embalming work, in the comseticians, and in general the whole subject of that type. Like i said, it made me lose track, and i think one of the main things keeping the story up was the romance between the characters. I think that was well done by the author because the romantic bit kept up with everything else in the story. Another thing i noticed, which everyone else might have, was the controversy of the influence of Hollywood, and the media. That was very "eye-catching" because it is also a reality in today. I would have to agree very strongly with many people that say that this is a satire on the burial industry and all of Hollywood. I agree because there are many ironic themes relating to those subjects. But, like i said before, this book just wasn't for me, and that is why i gave it two stars, which i feel is very poor, and that is why i might say I'd give it a two thumbs down.

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Summary: It was a great book but could have been more to the point.
Review: The Loved One is a very good book because it is dealing with an issue to which we can all relate in one form or another: love and loss. Evelyn Waugh wrote this book as a satire so that people could see the irony in it much better. He did a great job writing this book 50 years ago because what he wrote, about Hollywood, the burial industry, and love still hold true today. The way he named the characters after their personalities was very inventive and Mr. Waugh deserves to be commended for his good thinking. The novel was attention grabbing. It was really funny at times, and twists were constantly added to the story. The book always had you believe the same thing as the characters. Until just before the characters found out, you would find out about a lie. In this book, you find new things happening to the characters all the time. That was always fun! I thought it was a great book and recommend it to anyone who likes satires and loves to read.

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Summary: This novel is full of dry humor
Review: I thought that The Loved One was not a novel of humorous display but of dry humor. It was a grim love story between a Britsh poet and an American crematorium cosmetician. Throughout the novel there were horrible acts of violence which made the plot of a love story more interesting. In my point of view the book could have had more humorous displays. The reason I gave it three stars was because there were many boring parts throughout the book. Due to these boring parts it loses your interest in the book. But all in all it was somewhat of an appealing book.

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Summary: A book filled with dull and foolish charcters.
Review: The charcters in this book were dulll and foolish. The first character, Sir Francis Hinsley, hung himself after being laid off form the studios. My second example was Dennis Barlow the young English poet. He came to California to make it big as a poet. That was unrealistic dream that never was going to be accomplished. MR. Joyboy was another ridiculous character. Instead of having confidence in himself and coming out and saying to Aimee he had feelings for her; he hinted to her by arranging corpses to have a smile. Mr. Slump was very underdeveloped. He had dreary dialog and very dissapointing. He gave the bad advice to Aimee to commit suicide. Aimee Thanatogenos was the most feebleminded character in all of the book. She wrote to the Guru Brahmin for advice concernig her love life. She followed the advice of Mr. Slump and killed herself. She was very absurd to follow ridiculous advice. I felt all the charcters in the book lacked good judegment and sense.

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Summary: An entertaining journey to the place of your Loved Ones
Review: The Loved One is a hilarious story of what happens to your loved ones when it is time to put them to their resting place. The arrangements that are made by the funeral staff and what they do makes one amused to keep on reading the book. They turn death into a stand up comedy. I recomend you to read this book as your #1 selection in comedy and tragedy. How the author of this book mixes the elements of joy and death makes this book so unique and funny. The characters play in this book marvelous as if they have their own minds in their own world. The ending of this book is unexpected and suprisingly good. All I can say is read it.

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Summary: It was a fun, and exciting book to read
Review: The "The Loved One" is a book that many readers can enjoy. Evelyn Waugh described the book with many vocabulary words. The book had many interesting characters that each played an important part. I give it four stars for the story and how much information it had in it. I would recommend this book to alot of people interested in fiction stories.

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Summary: Two Thumbs Down for Waugh
Review: A poorly written book that revealed shallow characters that showed utter stupidity in their sick personalitys. The beginning of the story does not seem to have any connection to the end where some of the ideas begin to make sense. It takes place mostly at the Whispering Glades cemetery where employees are required to refer to the corpses as loved ones. A man who works there is in love with a cosmetican and shows how he thinks of the relationship by making the corpses smile and look sad before she works on them. And another man who is in love with her also lies about his identity and claims he is a poet by copying love poems and sending them to her. At the end she gets confused and the writer of a local column tells her to kill her self and she does which shows utter stupidity in her character. This book is merely lies and I give it two thumbs down.

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Summary: Infinite thumbs down.
Review: A poorly written book with characters too underdeveloped. The story starts in the middle. The first chapter is as though you have sat down with sombody in the middle of a conversation with themself. Evelyn Waugh's story is for the sick minded. She would have to be a sick person to think of these type of topics. Somewhat reminisent of Poe. i do not recommended to younger readers. A sick story about a sensetive topic, death.

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Summary: Poorly written and no pictures
Review: The characters in this book were poorly developed. I would not recommend this book to younger readers. It would help a lot if you were familiar with the English slang. I think that Evelyn Waugh is a sick person to think of these story lines. Somewhat reminisent of Poe. The book starts in the middle of the story. If you are not some genius, you will never understand what is going on in the book. Near the end it begins to come together and some of the events begin to make sense, but in all I feel that this ws an inappropriate book about a very sensetive issue, death. Two thumbs down.