Thread: How annoying is the lack of quotation marks to you?
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Old 08-29-2013, 04:42 PM   #1
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How annoying is the lack of quotation marks to you?
I just read Louise Erdrich's The Round House. Pretty good book. But no quotation marks were used to denote dialogue. As far as I can determine, Cormac McCarthy started doing this and now lots of literary authors are mimicking the trend.

To me, there is no stylistic reason to omit quotation marks, except to self-consciously announce an author's intention that This Is A Literary Work. I find it utterly pretentious. Your thoughts....

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