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Title: How can a 98-page book seem so interminable?
Review: I loved I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND and found the repetitions in it rhetorically effective, but found TOO LOUD not just boring but very irritating. I recognize that it is supposed to be an allegory about the fragility of culture (though I am not sure whether it is modernity or the communist regime that first jumbles and then pulps everything). Short as it is, the book seems incredibly padded (a mildly amusing ten-page allegory is elephantine at 98!).
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