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Title: Contrived and Boring
Review: Have you seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Remember the scene where the peasants explain their governing system? That is this book, but with the humor. Pages and pages of talk about government styles and philosophies. I suppose this was meant to topical at the time but it comes off as fake and heavy handed. Something else that seemed very odd to me; the author uses 'technical' terms for everything except toilet use which is referred to as with a certain curse word.Obviously a lot of people liked this novel, and was the main reason I read it in the first place. For me, however, it was boring and pointless.
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