I appreciate that perspective bhartman36. I'd never read McCarthy before The Road and it was a bit of a surprise that he didn't use the conventional punctuation so I went and checked out some of this other books and found the same thing. I guess it's his style that he has adopted. I will admit it was confusing to me a few places, but I also felt that it actually make the book flow better and it drew me in as a reader making it even more like I was a fly on the wall listening in (as opposed to the intrusions of thing like: he said, he remarked with sly eyes, etc.).
I do know others (from the reviews I've read) have similar issues with his work.
It's all good.