Overall how would you rate the writing quality in the EU? I don't necessarily mean the storylines or the plots or even the characters. I mean moreso the style of writing, the use of analogies and things of that nature. I feel like the quality of writing in the EU advances through time. During the Bantam Era I've felt like many of the authors (even Zahn fell into these trappings at times) were stuck in the 90s frame of Sci-Fi writing. Which I've always found to be a little cheesy and cliched. I can't necessarily blame them for this since the stories were written in the 90s. Yet as time passed I've always felt like the writing quality has increased while the plots have become somewhat more watered down and unoriginal. Yet when it comes down to it the one thing that has always both interested me and annoyed me about Star Wars are the analogies. I've always got the feelings that the books are written as if they are for people in the Star Wars universe. Every single author uses analogies that are in-galaxy that we could never understand. Such as comparing a character to an "overripe Ithorian starfruit" or something along those lines. I thought it was amusing at first but the more I read these types of things the more it annoys me. The analogies are cool and they drew me into the story and Star Wars universe but the purpose of analogies are to make you understand something by comparing it to something you already know or understand....not comparing it to something you've never heard of.