Who are the authors whose descriptions are so long, detailed, so complex that they break the pace of the story

...and that they resemble to PATENT DESCRIPTIONS and that are really arduous to read?
Who are the authors whose descriptions are so long, detailed, so complex that they break the pace of the story
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it means they don't have good editors
Who are the authors whose descriptions are so long, detailed, so complex that they break the pace of the story
Hardy for one. You never have to imagine ANYTHING about scenery.





Also Victor Hugo, but it's okay to read his. It's entertaining.
Reply:I had to quit reading Eragon because it was so boring. Why people like that book is seiously beyond me! The descriptions were soooo long I found myself skipping paragraphs describing the setting.
Reply:James Michener has a tendency to do that. I have read one of his books, Centennial. It crosses many generations and sub-plots. I found this book hard to read and hard to follow, so I never read one of his books again. Clancy (Hunt for Red October, etc.) has a tendency to do that also.
Reply:Henry David Thoreau- Walden was one horribly long description of the place where he goes to think. I hated that book!
Reply:I agree with "girl with no name" about Victor Hugo. He has some extremely long, drawn out passages that have absolutely nothing at all to do with the actual plot or development of the story. Case in point: the Battle of Waterloo in Les Miserables must be about 50 pages long, with descriptions of every last detail of the battlefield and such, but the entire section does nothing but introduce one character (Monsieur Thenardier) in the last couple pages. It is... strange.





Charles Dickens can sometimes be drawn out as well... he spent a very great deal of time describing the Old Bailey in A Tale of Two Cities.