My daughter, Bookzilla, got that nickname for purposes of this blog because of her reading habits. One day, she was sprawled across a chair and there was a pile of books to be read on once side and a pile of books she had already read on the other. These were not difficult books to read. The library has bunches of them, series books, aimed at juvenile readers. I tried to read one once and it made my head hurt. The books were lushly descriptive and dense blocks of prose marched the characters from one narrative plot point to another. To quote Dana Stevens:
It’s this sense of place that elevates the Twilight films above the best-selling books by Stephenie Meyer, made up of impenetrable blocks of descriptive yet curiously featureless prose.
What she said.