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* [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s [[Breakfast of Champions]] has extensive narrative filigree, as justified in the quote at the top - from describing the different sci-fi stories Kilgore Trout has written, to bizarre and inconsequential interrelationships between characters, to the penis lengths and circumferences of each male character.
* ''[[The Catcher in The Rye (Literature)|The Catcher in The Rye]]'' falls into this sometimes when [[The Narrator|Holden Caulfield]] wanders off on little tangents about things that don't directly relate to what's going on at the moment.
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'': It's difficult to have a series with an intended length of seven books, each of which is twice the length of an average [[Door StopperDoorstopper]], without falling prey to this a little. Each of the prologues goes to great length to bring to life a character who will inevitably die at the end of the chapter. There's also a fair amount of [[World Building]], [[Food Porn]], [[Scenery Porn]], and characterizing side characters. Outside of this sort of description, though, Martin does a pretty respectable job of making all events and conversations important.
 
 
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