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This is the standard line, but a lot of the time I find it to be bullshit. Sure, Cormac McCarthy gets to look cool and modernist by not using quotation marks, but my view is you would spend less time trying to decipher narrator vs. character if he did use them, and you would have a better reading experience at the same time.

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supernight52@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
This is not an inflammatory response, I am just curious- How do you feel about “House of Leaves?”

Generally considered to be a phenomenal work of art, but it DEFINITELY doesn’t follow the vast majority of standard grammar rules.

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- paranoia@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I hadn’t even heard of it until your comment.
  
  I respect going all in on breaking convention a lot more than leaving out punctuation as a style.
  
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  - supernight52@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I agree- which is the way I believe most Cormac McCarthy fans view his writing style. I have never read his books, they aren’t for me- but I feel that bucking trends is the way art is meant to evolve. Some trends getting bucked are more annoying than others, though.
    
    Do you have any authors that you suggest to others?
    
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    paranoia@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I tend to read books about religion and history, so there isn’t really a lot of breaking the mold there unfortunately.
    
    Gormenghast and Neuromancer are the kind of heavy atmospheric and descriptive fiction I like, but they don’t really deviate from standard punctuation or presentation in any way.
    
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- Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I thought House of Leaves dragged on, but I think the confusion was kind of the story too, you know? You have this scenario going on in the book, and the book itself has you looking left right up down here and there for the context.
  
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- DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Jumping in.
  
  I tried ‘House’ and noped out about fifty pages in.
  
  Too much work and not much payout.
  
  imho it was a gimmick book.
  
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- Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  “House of Leaves” challenges what is a book! Forget grammar, this is an identify crisis of narrative. Or is it even narrative at this point? Work of art, absolutely.
  
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