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* [[Tom Clancy]] himself admitted that he had run out of good candidates for villain nations by the mid-1990s, which resulted in a pair of suicidally outmatched opponents for the United States in ''[[Jack Ryan (Literature)|Debt of Honor]]'' (Japan fights Round Two...) and ''Executive Orders.''
* The tenth book in Robert Jordan's ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' series falls under this due to excessive use of [[Padding]] and [[Purple Prose]]. The average rating on Amazon.com is [http://www.amazon.com/Crossroads-Twilight-Wheel-Time-Book/dp/0812571339/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277283385&sr=8-1 1.5 stars]. Most fans see some manner of seasonal rot setting in anywhere between books 4 and 9 already, but it's disputed where it really went downhill. Either way, book 11 was a significant improvement, resolving several plots and paving the way for the final book with, by WoT standards, barely any padding at all. (Though it does focus inordinant attention on [[Author Appeal|bondage situations with the Aes Sedai]] and a lot of dumb moves by characters, even for them).
* [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' runs at a strong pace until crashing in a brick wall in ''Wizard and Glass''. Shortly after introducing us to the world of [[The Stand]] (a storyline with promise), all we get is a flashback sequence that doesn't flesh out the narrating character any more than the previous books had. [[
** What makes ''Wizard and Glass'' so painful is the focus of the story. Two stories are happening during the flashback: The War and The Town. One is about the huge shadow-war that is being fought between the armies of the Crimson King and the Gunslingers. This is the one about mythical battles and powerful artifacts being brought to bear against nightmarish demons and mechanical abominations as the world is quickly being brought to the cataclysm that framed the past three books. The other is about Roland's first girlfriend. Guess [[Strangled By the Red String|which gets the book]] and [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome|which gets the chapter.]]
* ''Naked Empire'', the eighth book of the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series, is commonly thought to be the weakest part of the series by even people who like it as a whole. Yes, this is the book with ''[[Strawman Political|evil pacifists]]''. Afterward, the series gains back some of its momentum in the three last books.
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