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I find the use of long dashes instead of quotation marks very distracting. It takes me out of the story. Does anyone know why this punctuation choice was made?
Michael Anthony This way of not using Quotation marks for speech is very annoying!! Reading an older novel by James McBride called Song Yet Sung, and it’s driving me …moreThis way of not using Quotation marks for speech is very annoying!! Reading an older novel by James McBride called Song Yet Sung, and it’s driving me crazy!! All my life basically I have read books with this type of punctuation! When it’s not printed with the quotation marks I may skip reading the book even if I want to!!(less)
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The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles (Goodreads Author)
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