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To me it seems as though the lack of quotation marks, or any other means of marking dialogue, is a pretentious affectation as silly as deciding not to use the letter M, commas, paragraph breaks, or some other random grammatical point. "Today I shall write a book with no articles! All instances of a, an, and the will be deleted! Why? Because I can, and I shall call it art!"
As Hitch said in an earlier post, if an author can't be bothered to denote dialogue, I can't be bothered to buy their book.
I've read a fair number of British books lately which use single quotes for dialogue rather than double quotes as in American books. Although it doesn't prevent me from reading, or even enjoying, the book I do find it distracting when apostrophes are used.
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