Can you (or anyone for that matter) provide some examples of is. I've read the book and who never have categorised Puzos style of writing in this way.
The most cited example of this is his rather vivid and detailed description of Lucy Mancini's 'condition' and the operation to repair it. He goes into rather deep detail about it and uses a lot of anatomical terminology that, quite frankly, is out of place in a crime family novel. It ends up spanning two chapters if memory serves me correctly.
There's also Johnny Fontane's story that is essentially backdropped by an expose of the Hollywood movie industry.
