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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
Therein lies the rub. Many longer books I've read have been padded to get the length. Look at Jordon's Wheel of Time series. The plot has been pretty much stalled the last several books because of the number of side plots not really necessary to the main plot. In Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged," she had the bad habit of having her character's launch into seemingly endless soliloquies, belaboring points that could have been expounded upon more concisely. That marred an otherwise excellent book. David Eddings later series, even though each book wasn't particular long, was nothing but padding; the same plot kept getting repeated in different settings.
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One of the worst padded books is
Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard. There are a number of places it could have ended and book an ok book. But he just kept it going and going and going and padded the hell out of it and it went from ok to awful.