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    <body><![CDATA[It's difficult to label Hrabel's &quot;I Served the King of England&quot;.   Is it a surrealistic farce?  The mid-20th century history of the Czech Republic?  A dark parody of Horatio Alger stories?  <br/><br/>It's many things at once.  This translation is a lively read capturing Czech humor, and co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57737893">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hrabal, Bohumil.  I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND.  (Eng. trans. – 1989). ****  Hrabal is a Czech writer who is very much admired in Europe, where his books are widely read.  In this country, we know him as the author of “Closely Watched Trains,” which was later made into a movie.  I saw the film...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39976454">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Such entertainment!  I was swept away into the narrative of Ditie's tale vite!vite! was I pulled in so quickly.  Short-in-stature waiters-to-be, saving their pennies for sexual pleasures with women whose forte is the very pleasure short-in-stature prospective waiters covet longingly, have always spu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35116053">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Such a rewarding experience after all the bore I had to put up with in Torless' case. Satirical and witty, it's the kind of book you don't put down until you're done with it. The bizarre yet funny life and experiences of a Czech busboy who later becomes a millionaire and ends up his life accompanied...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53831607">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love reading books with short protagonists. Also really enjoyed the conversational, discursive voice of the narrator. I guess the long, winding sentences are one of Hrabal's trademarks. This makes me want to learn Czech... and be a waiter in pre-World War II Prague.<br/>Criticism: the female char...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54067831">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What begins as a simple autobiography turns into a satire of government, society and war. Our hero has a very active libido often getting himself into absurd situations throughout Eastern Europe. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Grabbed it at the Friends of EPL book sale, with no knowledge of it other than the trailer for last year's film adaptation. Astonishing book, hilarious, gorgeous.  Quite possibly a new favortie.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Where did this book come from? Quirky and packed with meaning, I Served the King of England strikes me as one of those secret masterpieces that we all know are out there.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this while in the Czech Republic... funny and enjoyable to read but gave me a lot of history as well. Motivation to learn to read Czech.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, if you want to know what it was like to live as a Czech in the first half of the 20th century, you can do no better.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dry humor...mockery...sex..what else? The inner workings of a hotel worker. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[сиджу. читаю.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i love it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first book by Bohumil Hrabal.  Though I wasnt impressed with the title, I quickly got pulled into the authors simple but magical surrealist writing style.  Worth the read....]]></body>
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