Who is the most long-winded writer you've ever read?

I read one of DFW's essays, something about the plight of the lobster (I'm sure it was a metaphor), and I just could not get into it.   I took a peek at his book "Infinite Jest", and there was just no way.   I am sure the man was brilliant and gifted, God rest his sad soul, but from what little I read, he seemed verrry long-winded and totally inaccessible.   

I find some of his  earlier essays very accessible, and really funny in a snarky way; and I'm even willing to wade through the plethora of footnotes. But he was not designed to be a writer of the long-form novel, which unfortunately always seems to attract the undisciplined logorrheics  (who are often tagged by their editors as 'geniuses', and thus never given the proper editorial guidance and restraint), and DFW was always on the cusp of being one of those. I can't read any of his attempts at novels, and even found some of his latter essays began to slide into the form of too much shapeless wordiness that he seemed to be losing the ability or willingness to prune into more accessible shape.