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Originally Posted by wyndslash
hmmm...i guess it's harder to find quality reviews for m/m work  but i usually look at a lot, though it really just boils down to the grammar, for me. like i said, i'm an easy reader to please. it's just that incorrect grammar makes it harder to really get into the story. |
Some good writers take liberties with grammar, so it's hard to say whether it's a style issue or just plain error. If it's a technical manual or business document, that's one thing, but in fiction often what's "correct" is determined by the author. Cormac McCarthy doesn't use quotes. He also refuses to use semicolons, amongst other things.
In your case I'd recommend staying away from
Riddley Walker, by Russel Hoban:
"Its very qwyet and small thru the hisper of the rain its like it ben pickt up ever so delkit by the wind the way you myt lif a keepaways egg from a ledge on a clif and clym down with it only this here wind egg it hatches in my ear and littl qwyet words come out of it."