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I've read many of Cormac McCarthy's books. I appreciated most of them. But not for his unconventional punctuation. It adds nothing, IMO, and distracted me greatly.
I feel similarly about excessive use of regional dialect. It is sufficient to sprinkle a few words here and there to convey the flavor of the dialect. Most egregious example? Feersum Endjinn, by Iain M. Banks (RIP, and otherwise one of my favorite authors).
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