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Originally Posted by VydorScope
I don't know why, but I have a hard time leaving "said" off.
Bob walked into the bar, "ow! That hurt!"
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Bob walked into the bar and said, "ow! That hurt!"
Maybe its all my time doing paper in grad school, the missing said FEELS wrong.
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I should have said that I prefer a minimum of he said, she said. Generally you need a few to keep track although I have read books that had very few and it was all quite clear.
What I mean generally is something like this.
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"You want me to come along and keep you from getting mugged?" Hawk said. He had white wine. I had beer.
"No, I'll risk that alone," I said. "I want you to look into things from the other end."
"Tony Marcus?"
"Yeah. '
"That's the top end."
"True." I said. "You start there and I'll keep rooting around down here at the bottom. Maybe if I work up and you work down we'll meet somewhere and know something.-"You care how I do it?" Hawk said. He sipped some wine.
"No. You know Marcus. You know the people around him. See if anything is up. All I want is the kid."
Hawk nodded. He sipped some more wine. "You going back and look around the Zone again."
I nodded. My beer was gone. The bartender drew me another.
Hawk was looking at me. "You know Marcus," Hawk said.
"Yeah."
"You know if something is up, it is something very heavy."
...Yeah."
(Robert B. Parker)
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Overall in reading I don't care much, if at all, but the first audiobook I tried was extremely liberal in the he said department. Possibly the fault of the reader, but it made me squirm.
Helen