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Originally Posted by cklls
Absent these visual clues and cues, a reader must work significantly harder to interpret what the author has written, thus diluting his message in basic language comprehension struggles.
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I agree with that, though apparently the unwillingness to continue to read such a book because one finds the attempt to wade through the author's "style" tiresome and distracting, is viewed by some as some sort of failed intellectual challenge.
Joyce's "Ulysses" was a ground-breaker; that's the reason it's considered "literary fiction". Imitation, while supposedly the sincerest form of flattery, does not necessarily literary fiction make. If the content of a current book doesn't justify the use of its non-standard technique, then the failing is on the part of the author not the reader, because s/he has failed to intrigue the reader sufficiently to make them want to continue reading the book.