Neil Stephenson / China Mieville think author "wordy bastard".
The only specific data point I happen to be aware of is "Sir Winston Spencer Churchill's six-volume biography of Marlborough", considered wordy by Stephenson. A brief examination on amazon, however, suggests that the two-volume omnibus edition is only just over two thousand pages, so may actually have been exceeded by the baroque cycle, officially qualifying same for the award.
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The only specific data point I happen to be aware of is "Sir Winston Spencer Churchill's six-volume biography of Marlborough", considered wordy by Stephenson. A brief examination on amazon, however, suggests that the two-volume omnibus edition is only just over two thousand pages, so may actually have been exceeded by the baroque cycle, officially qualifying same for the award.