I read Blood Meridian. It took me a while to come to terms with the style. I ended up having to go back and reread portions just to understand what the hell was going on.
Seems like someone could publish any of his books as “punctuated edition” and it would be far more enjoyable.
I presume his editor was like “dude, you HAVE to use some punctuation!” and he had to push and fight to not have any in there. One wonders why he would be so insistent upon making the books hard to read. Like the little periods and commas are really cramping his style.
I read Blood Meridian. It took me a while to come to terms with the style. I ended up having to go back and reread portions just to understand what the hell was going on.
Seems like someone could publish any of his books as “punctuated edition” and it would be far more enjoyable.
I presume his editor was like “dude, you HAVE to use some punctuation!” and he had to push and fight to not have any in there. One wonders why he would be so insistent upon making the books hard to read. Like the little periods and commas are really cramping his style.