Not read the Road, but the lack of quotation marks? Gah. what the hell is that? laziness on the part of printing/publishing houses? David Gutterson (he of Snow Falling On Cedars fame) published Our Lady of the Forest a couple of years ago. Not a single quotation mark throughout the whole story. Not. One.
I finished it, confused as to who was speaking, which pov I was reading, and all that mess. It's like the authors are FORCING the readers to actively engage with their text, not in a communicative way, but in a "now what the hell is happening, now" kind of way. And I resent it.
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Date: 2007-11-03 11:59 pm (UTC)I finished it, confused as to who was speaking, which pov I was reading, and all that mess. It's like the authors are FORCING the readers to actively engage with their text, not in a communicative way, but in a "now what the hell is happening, now" kind of way. And I resent it.
/rant.