The pleasures of Barroque writing

Gee, last week I went to the bookstore to buy some easy-to-read book
cause I want something light to read while taking sun baths next to
the swimming pool. I bought a paperback about, mostly Greek,
mythology. I've always been interested in that. One other factor for
chosing that book was that I read on the cover something like "Classic
Bestseller". It has to be good I thought.

As usual, I started reading from the very first page, and then the
introduction... uh oh! When I bought that book I hadn't noticed that
it was actually a very old book, reprinted recently, but originally
written in the 1940's!

Woah, you can really tell that book was written in a different age.
The lady author's style of explaining things is so... how can I put
it? BARROQUE! Too many words to say simple things! She reminded me
of my language teacher. She always gave higher grades whenever you
wrote unnecessarily lengthy papers.