An overlong documentary that follows Gillespie's quest and tells the story of Earhart's final journey.
But in among the weeds of an overlong speech lurked some bold, potentially transformative ideas.
This is an intriguing, intelligent book and the third outing for John March, so it is perhaps surprising that Mr Spiegelman still succumbs to the novice novelist's temptation to provide overlong description.
This argument is the most interesting (and contentious) part of Mr Jacques's book, rather than his workaday account of Chinese history or the overlong prose about China being a "civilisation state" rather than a "nation state .The parting of ways between Europe and China came, in his view, not with the Renaissance or the Enlightenment but with the industrial revolution.
But the next 500 or so are a gradually palling, tortuously overlong and self-indulgent joke.
The event affords an entertaining (if overlong) evening's television in celebration of an art form that speaks to the world like no other, as well as a chance to enjoy some pretty frocks.
At this point, thumbing the remaining 200 or so pages to come, one begins to wonder whether the whole thing might be somewhat overlong and overdone.
To them as Rick Perlstein argues in "The Invisible Bridge", a fine (if overlong) history of the late 1960s and early 1970s Reagan's emergence as a national leader was a tragedy.
As with her first novel, this one occasionally feels overwrought (children are "Guantánamoed with a nanny") and overlong.
Another is an overlong chapter on the dispute between Hemingway and John Dos Passos on the disappearance of Dos Passos's friend, José Robles.
The reader is entitled to some way of seeing how accurately the historian has interpreted or quoted the evidence, but footnotes should not be overlong and in particular should not be converted into minibibliographies, especially when these have as one purpose to show how many books and articles the historian has read (or wants to persuade the reader that he has read).
