Links of Interest
31. Oct, 2008 | by Jane |
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- Wall Street Journal wakes up and discovers that vamps are sexy to readers. (thanks Kay)
- Quotation marks are lacking in elegance. Really? I appreciate punctuation. (thanks again Kay)
- Archaeologists may have found the campfire of a real Robinson Crusoe.
- Brazillian designer selling lingerie that has a GPS locator so your stalker can find you with ease.
- And for you political junkies out there, a map of poll closing times.
Have a great weekend and don’t forget to vote.
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Argh. The lack of punctuation was one of many things that annoyed me about The Road!
It seems like every paper and magazine has recently discovered sexy vampires.
ugh, I couldn’t even read that Journal article. What a piece of fluff. And no mention of Anne Rice? Please. Vampires have been around as a sex symbol for over a century. Hello..Dracula?
Solely using periods, or a blend of periods and dashes, doesn’t create reading elegance. With the loss of quotation marks, I find a tale becomes a low drone of nothingness.
I once tried to read a litfic novel with no quotes (and virtually no other punctuation), and within fifteen minutes I had a headache. I couldn’t be bothered to read past page 10.
And it’s not that I don’t enjoy demanding prose. But the narrative needs to flow, and it can’t flow if I have to stop all the time and decide whether a particular sentence or word is or isn’t dialogue.
Whatever drug these authors are self-medicating with, they need to cut it out…