Title: Needs a simile restraining order.
Product review: Mr. Lileks entertains in his newspaper work and I am a devotee of his web blog; he sprinkles amusing metaphors throughout his work. With this novel however, his hand was way too heavy with the simile shaker and the result renders the book nearly unreadable. I had to black the adverbs out with a Sharpie to figure out what was actually happening in some of the particularly over-saturated paragraphs. I expect when the Chicago hotel maid found it by the wall I finally threw it against, she took me for some sort of spy.
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