Many modern novels seem that way too. Not the elaborate dialog, but endless rambling descriptions. Historical novels are often big offenders. Like the author

Many modern novels seem that way too. Not the elaborate dialog, but endless rambling descriptions. Historical novels are often big offenders. Like the author has done a ton of research, not a bad thing, but can't bear to leave any of it out, and there is no editor to say that's too much, people don't need to know how big the potato patch at the Palace of Versailles was.