discursive, wordy, essayistic, aphoristic, overdetermined, prolix, picaresque, nabokovian, overfamiliar, talky, overlong, epigrammatic, banal, stagey, expository, novelistic, poetic, sententious, incantatory, contrapuntal, writerly, droll, repetitious, pointillistic, stagy, verbose, jejune, ludic, solipsistic, didactic, declamatory, rhapsodic, imagistic, melodramatic, unpoetic, songlike, revelatory, pedantic, shavian, allusive, florid, unaffecting, witty, compendious, ruminative, impressionistic, rebarbative, metrical, idiosyncratic, gnomic, cadenced, longwinded, seriocomic, ponderous, uninflected, fugal, quippy, amusing, lugubrious, epistolary, opera buffa, humorous, jamesian, larky, diagrammatic, pithy, swiftian, absurdist, bathetic, pretentious, engrossing, authorial, dialogic, rhythmless, sparer, acidulous, strophic, winded, reductive, stilted, poetical, jokey, disjunctive, whimsical, dostoevskian, comical, laurence sterne, splenetic, joycean, onanistic, aleatory, magic realist, tricksy, affectless, prose poem, polysyllabic, unmusical, quotidian, autobiographic, unrevealing, slangy, unheroic, autobiographical, anecdotal, edifying, prefatory, apposite, introductory, metafictional, ovidian, disjointed, instructive, midrashic, briefer

excursive, indirect, irrelevant, rambling, tangential