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A fascinating book which profiles the lives, deaths and the burial locations of 500 influential people from the worlds of sport, music, film, television, literature and Generation X, including: Kurt Cobain, Aaliyah Haughton, River Phoenix, Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G.,John Lennon, Stuart Sutcliffe, George Harrison, Brian Epstein, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Peter Sellars, Walt Disney, Glenn Miller, Jesse Owens, Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Marty Feldman, Errol Flynn, Greta Garbo, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Bruce Lee, Alfred Hitchcock, Vivian Leigh, Dudley Moore, James Dean, Stan Laurel, Marilyn Monroe.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I found this book very good read about the best celebrity deaths with stories on their lives and careers and how they tragically met their maker. a vast amount of deaths make up this book reaching over 400 interesting parts of this book are clear precise mapping on how to find certain stars resting places(graves) I am certain people will find this a great read!
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32 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Whatta Deal/A BIG BANG FOR AN INEXPENSIVE BOOK
23 April 2003
Format:Hardcover
This book attempts to go where many others have gone before and manages to do a very good job... for a good quality hardcover book. It contains the locations of approximately 500 celebrity graves and is just a lot of fun.
The book is arranged by type of celebrity (sports figures, singers, authors, etc.). For each personality the author Tod Benoit provides a date of birth and death, a lengthy biography which summarizes pertinent facts concerning his subject's life, the manner in which his subject died, the burial location and/or the method of disposal, instructions as to how to find the cemetery using main highways and local streets, and explicit instructions for finding gravesites.
Aside from being just packed with good info, Tod Benoit has a wonderfully wry sense of humor which is good because it takes a lot of the sting out of a grim subject like death. I particularly enjoyed his take on finding grave locations at Forest Lawn in Glendale CA and his not-too-subtle suggestions for averting cemetery security. This man is hysterical!
Another very enjoyable section could have been subtitled "Tod's Practical And Sometimes Whacky Methods Used To Get Information". Odd as my subtitle sounds, the author's suggestions are quite inventive and I applaud him for his overall creativity. In truth, I can really see them being quite effective. This is probably because I've tried some, and will try the ones I haven't.
At the date of publication, all the information provided regarding grave locations was correct with the exception of Lucille Ball who was recently moved to a cemetery in Jamestown NY. There were a few biographical errors which I caught, but nothing that would interfer with the general pleasure I derived from this book.
Now please buy this book, so he'll write another one. It is that good.
The book is arranged by type of celebrity (sports figures, singers, authors, etc.). For each personality the author Tod Benoit provides a date of birth and death, a lengthy biography which summarizes pertinent facts concerning his subject's life, the manner in which his subject died, the burial location and/or the method of disposal, instructions as to how to find the cemetery using main highways and local streets, and explicit instructions for finding gravesites.
Aside from being just packed with good info, Tod Benoit has a wonderfully wry sense of humor which is good because it takes a lot of the sting out of a grim subject like death. I particularly enjoyed his take on finding grave locations at Forest Lawn in Glendale CA and his not-too-subtle suggestions for averting cemetery security. This man is hysterical!
Another very enjoyable section could have been subtitled "Tod's Practical And Sometimes Whacky Methods Used To Get Information". Odd as my subtitle sounds, the author's suggestions are quite inventive and I applaud him for his overall creativity. In truth, I can really see them being quite effective. This is probably because I've tried some, and will try the ones I haven't.
At the date of publication, all the information provided regarding grave locations was correct with the exception of Lucille Ball who was recently moved to a cemetery in Jamestown NY. There were a few biographical errors which I caught, but nothing that would interfer with the general pleasure I derived from this book.
Now please buy this book, so he'll write another one. It is that good.
22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Good Read
29 Aug 2003
Format:Hardcover
This book not only contains the whereabouts of many 'famous' people's graves, but it has thumbnail boigraphies of the people in question.
For a casual reader, it can be picked up and a few sections can be read easily at one sitting. For the hard-core reader, it can be like 'bubblegum for the brain' and be an entertaining read.
Couldn't give it any higher than four stars. Like a reviewer states below, there is some misinformation in the book. Minor to be sure, but it is still an entertaining read.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Grave Thoughts
19 Jun 2003
Format:Hardcover
I have never, ever written a review before, but this book was such a terrific read that I just had to say something. Tod Benoit has found a unique subject and presented it in a fascinating format. The title caught my eye immediately and from the first page, I was hooked. The biographies were interesting and the grave directions were so precise that I may just spend my next free afternoon checking out the cemeteries in my own neighborhood. Who needs Beverly Hills? I can now claim several celebrities within a 4 mile radius of my home(of course, they're all dead, but what the heck). I would definitely recommend this book not only for the subject matter, but for the easy-going style in which it was written. I did find one huge biographical mistake, but I'll let future readers find it. Get this book...you won't be sorry.
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