Where Are They Buried?: How Did They Die? Fitting Ends and Final Resting Places of the Famous, Infamous, and Noteworthy

The perennially best-selling guide to the lives, deaths, and final resting places of our most enduring cultural icons, now revised to include 25 additional entries. Where Are They Buried? has directed legions of fervent fans and multitudes of the morbidly curious to the gravesides, monuments, memorials, and tombstones of the nearly 500 celebrities and antiheros included in the book. By far the most complete and well-organized guide on the subject, every entry features an entertaining capsule biography full of little-known facts; a detailed description of the death; and step-by-step directions to the site of the grave, including not only the name of the cemetery but the specific roads and trails to take within the cemetery to reach the gravesite. The book also provides a handy index of grave locations organized by state, province, and country to make planning a grave-hopping road trip easy and efficient. Additional entries include Steve Jobs, Whitney Houston, Neil Armstrong, Elizabeth Taylor, Dick Clark and twenty more.… (more)

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LibraryThing member DebPogue

This was a great read! The author's travels and investigations are interesting to read. I think my overwhelming impression was "Wow, a whole lot of well-known folks have died since I was born!" Somehow, that's a weird feeling. Another book on the shelf that my family will browse through on occasion

and enjoy.

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LibraryThing member oregongirl1985

this book was really cool to sit and look through. It has a lot of people and their stories.

LibraryThing member kropferama

An amusing read it as I think somebody noted good for the short periods you may be spending with the book in your home. I suppose the factors that held me back from giving more stars are the authors periodic commentary about some of his deceased subjects. For example when talking about Lee Harvey

Oswald he says clearly the forensic evidence could not support Oswald as the single gunman. To have the author interject their own opinions detract from the flow of the book and is an annoying distraction. When talking about Bella Lugosi he throws in the comment that a wooden stake or silver bullet wasn’t necessary after all. Some of the comments are sometimes entertaining but mostly they fall flat.

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