I read a book with a disturbing punctuation feature recently. It only used single quotes, no double quotes. I wondered as I was reading how they would handle dialog where one character quoted another. Apparenly, the author or editor couldn't figure it out either because in the 450 page book they never did it.
Disturbing to read. Maybe more disturbing since they had to rearrange sentence structure to accommodate the screwy punctuation.
I agree it makes no sense. I've seen books like that as well. Very annoying. I believe Roald Dahl writes like that. I've noticed that with popular authors that their earlier books are usually better edited than their later books. I don't know if it's just that the publishing industry knows it's going to sell anyway or what.
