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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I really liked the way he wrote. It wasn't linear, and so it took a little more work to read than most writing in the genre, but I appreciated it. The way he riffed on stuff and circled back to themes reminded me of jazz, a thought I had before I read the tribute to him on ESPN.com, which includes a writer talking about Wiley making that comparison in (tellingly) a more sophisticated way.
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I know what you mean, but, to me, it always came across as forced. Not like he was riffing, but like he would lose his train of thought, go off on something else and then remember what his original point was and circle back.
I guess that's why he got along with Spike Lee so well. Spike often tries to tackle too many issues in his movies and forgets what his initial theme was too.
TM
