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A review by rollotreadway
The Drowned Detective by Neil Jordan
1.0
I'd have thought Neil Jordan was successful enough that he could afford a keyboard with quotation marks. Maybe he just doesn't know how to make them appear. It's usually shift+2, Neil. Hope that helps.
Beyond that, oh, I don't know. The story didn't grab me, the characters seemed unending and unreal. I'm not sure what the point was, it seemed to be neither one thing nor the other, never quite to make its mind to on what it was going to be.
But, heavens, struggling through that whilst trying to keep tabs on what was narrative and what was dialogue, and if dialogue said by whom, or thought it written... it was exhausting and annoying. Quotation marks are pretty useful, it turns out. I can do without the needless affectation of dropping them.
Beyond that, oh, I don't know. The story didn't grab me, the characters seemed unending and unreal. I'm not sure what the point was, it seemed to be neither one thing nor the other, never quite to make its mind to on what it was going to be.
But, heavens, struggling through that whilst trying to keep tabs on what was narrative and what was dialogue, and if dialogue said by whom, or thought it written... it was exhausting and annoying. Quotation marks are pretty useful, it turns out. I can do without the needless affectation of dropping them.