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Originally Posted by AndrewH
Lack of punctuation, etc... was the author simply being lazy, or was it a stylistic choice that is unique to this particular book and not reflected in his other books?
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It's a stylistic choice that I found to be appropriate and quite effective. The Road is a
bleak novel set in a barren, dreary world. Likewise, the writing itself is bare -- devoid of any extraneous ornamentation or flourishes (such as quotation marks).