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Dialogue passage in novels usually start out user-friendly, with lots of "...Jack said" 's and "...she replied" 's. But after a few lines of that, the author wants you to be totally captured by the action, so they start leaving out all speaker tags whatsoever. By the next page, I have no idea who is
saying which lines. Then I go back and re-read, and usually have to pencil in notes in the margin labeling who's saying each line.
There are plenty of annotated book editions out there, so how 'bout one that labels each line "R:" for Raskolnikov and "S" for Sviatoslav, when two people are talking?
Thank you.
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J: “I went up the hill to fetch a pail of water.”
J: “I went up the hill, too.”
J: “I fell down and broke my crown.”
J: “I came tumbling after.” |
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Hmmm. Nice idea, however you won't know you need it until you get there, by which time you've (presumably) already bought/borrowed the non-annotated edition. So I think I'd rather just do what I usually do and re-read, remembering to pay attention this time. |
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Hemingway is spinning in his grave. But not because of
this. He went on for pages at a time, not letting you
know who's saying what. I think he got lost himself once
after a long stretch of this. |
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