I am currently reading a book that does many of these! The author can't pick a POV; the dialog is so dry I keep skimming over it; the only current source of tension is some embarrassment one of the characters is feeling; there are too many characters to keep track of (at least 16 without counting all the children running around (and I think there are 8 of those at this point, not including newborn babies that have joined the story (2, possibly 3, the moms all have L names (another thing in the list) and I've forgotten which of them had babies)); Other than in the first chapter when someone was threatened at knife point, only mundane things keep happening. The second it seems like something interesting might happen, the scene ends and we skip ahead in time past it. And, one I'm not sure was in the list but could have been, everyone keeps unrealistically saying exactly what they mean and being understood. I am absolutely certain I know how it will end, but I keep reading it anyway... almost like its some sort of challenge I can't give up on.