![]() ![]() ![]() Those who have read the book will know what I’m talking about. Charles Yu obviously has a knack for stringing together words…upon words…upon words…as if he were stuck in one of his own time travel loops continuing to spew the same random thought for two pages straight, phrase after phrase, divided by a staccato of never ending commas, and run on sentences, until the reader is wondering, will there ever be a need for periods again, where did this paragraph start, where did this page even start, what was the predication that started this train of though, this seemingly infinitely recursive word dump that pauses, loops, meanders, jumps, and yet, more importantly still, will it ever end, or will it just continue until Yu’s comma key breaks? Despite my obvious disdain for the use of this lowly form of punctuation in this work, apparently Charles Yu and his editor never met a comma they didn’t love!! Why am I starting with the commas? Because it was distracting. ![]() But as critics (and fellow writers) love to download their ideas and opinions on others, so I feel the need to inform readers of this book.Įxcept, in actuality, I wouldn’t have given the book that title because I didn’t love the comma, not one bit. I would have entitled this book “ How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Comma” but that would be hard to do since I didn’t write it. ![]()
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