Ask me about the quality of prose in my favorite books? "uh, pretty good, I guess? Easy to visualize what the author was describing?"
Ask me about the quality of prose in books I dislike? "HERE'S MY 50 PAGE ESSAY ON EVERY POOR CHOICE OF WORD, PHRASE, CLICHÉ, IDIOM THE AUTHOR MADE AND WHY HE'S A FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED BEING ANd I'm only on page 15"