Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: If I can't read it, I can't enjoy it...

I'm afraid I found the decision to omit quotation marks around the dialogue in this book too much for me. Maybe out there there's a really great book that's capriciously decided to do without a random punctuation mark, but I'm going to have to give this one a pass -- it's just too distracting (and, frankly, it seems pretentious). I'm not sure what to think of an author who calls so much attention to the mechanics of the writing in a book that's not supposed to be avant-garde or experimental. It seems a bit perverse to put deliberate roadblocks in front of your readers. You might not consciously notice punctuation when it is there, but you sure miss it when it's gone.