But I seem to recall a thread where more than a couple people whose opinions are generally very good brought her up as an exemplar of excellent prose in the English language. I think the thread was one of those circlejerks about Fantasy novels not being well written or something (I actually like those threads, don't get me wrong.) I think one of those was you, or Doma, maybe you both, but I could be mistaken. Anyway, I recall seeing "X is no Jane Austen, though" more than once. So I was just curious as to what made her prose well-formed, apart from dialogue or wit or characters. If that makes sense. I'm seriously interested, because I think I'm missing something. The fact that it was simply a product of a different trend in style doesn't cut it for me, though- I'm interested in a positive description, her stylistic context already acknowledged. Anyway, jw.