Was not expecting this comparison

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Saddam always wrote longhand. On a good day he would produce fifty pages of elegantly inscribed Arabic script; on most days he could only manage ten. His sentences were long and tangled, like something out of the novels of William Gaddis or Thomas Pynchon. Saddam would frequently begin with a straightforward declarative phrase, slash through the middle of the sentence with a parenthetical digression, and then conclude with a wry comment, a bitter observation—always something unexpected.

>From Saddam’s Secret Weapon, a review of the new book The Achilles Trap by Steve Coll: Saddam’s Secret Weapon - The American Conservative<https://www.theamericanconservative.com/saddams-secret-weapon/>

It's actually kind of fascinating, I had no idea Saddam was such a prolific novelist