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There are some times where unconventional grammar is worked in the story for context and I can understand that and it doesn't jump out at me as being "bad".
But I hate the lame cop out of certain kinds of clearly sloppy and lazy grammar being given some fancy name.
But about 15 years ago I (misguidedly) took a book out of the library that said it was in "Oprah's new book club". There was a scene which consisted of nearly six pages and I was still on the same SINGLE, unpunctuated sentence and I was getting a headache.
I wrote in the little e-mail group I was in how much I hated that, and it was horrible and how could the author even get published etc, and people "corrected" me by saying, "It's called 'stream of consciousness, meant to draw the reader in as if they were thinking their thoughts".
Sorry, sticking the cutesy new-age label didn't make it any less of a teeth-itch to read.
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