Canada Reads has chosen their 5 panelists and each panelist has chosen a book that represents the difficulties of 'starting over'.
This is the book that I decided to read first.
"Minister Without Portfolio" by Michael Winter.
What a disappointment! The sentence structure was so poor that I felt that I was reading an elementary school student's writing. I kept feeling that I needed to correct it- "No, that sentence is not complete, that punctuation is not correct", etc. etc.
Of course, punctuation is not an issue for a lot of authors these days. This book has a complete lack of quotation marks, which seems to be fairly common in novels today.
But the sentence structure was so terrible, that I could not focus on the narrative.
I had to look up 'syntax' to see if it is still in the dictionary. Did I come from another planet, where they were conscious of syntax and punctuation?
I would love to know who decided that grammar (including punctuation and syntax) no longer matters.
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