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I started and bailed on Plainsong by Kent Haruf partly due to the lack of quotation marks. If it had grabbed me in other ways, I might have continued, but the book just felt dreary and depressing, so I quit. Shortly before that, I had read The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski, which I loved. It had a mute character and no quotation marks were used when the dialog was in sign language. It was jarring at first, but I got used to it because I was enjoying the story so much. However, I still would have preferred some kind of dialog indicator for the signing. Those are the only two books I have encountered recently where quotation marks were deliberately omitted.
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