Gaddis

[grip at netcom.com]

After reading several references to Gaddis, I thought I'd give him a try. 
So I picked up a copy of his latest(?) "A Frolic of His Own" and JR. 
Doesn't he have a keyboard with a quotation mark key? Is this supposed to 
be cute or is there some arcane reason for having pages and pages of 
dialogue mixed together with descriptive passages. I am unable to get 
anything out of this without an excrutiating effort which frankly after a 
hundred pages or doesn't seem worth it. Does one ever get used to not 
knowing if a character is talking or if the author is narrating without 
stopping and going back and rereading from the last -?

Sorry about intruding with WG on TRP's bailiwick, but this is wherte I 
learned of the existence of WG, so...

Are all his books like this? Should I bother to order Recognitions?

grip