She had improved for a big bit of the book, and then she went to Kashmir and the demons of description were let loose and she started applying adjectives with abandon and assonance and it's STARTING TO MAKE WITH THE MADNESS. It's at the point where, when she doesn't use a word that starts with a similar sound, I start wondering what word she would have used, had she but thought of it.

And if you read that paragraph out loud, THAT'S WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE. THE WHOLE BOOK. The last bit I heard in the car before coming into the apartment after work had to do with mangy monkeys and rabies-riddled dogs.