"Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same." Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Some quotes stay with you, and this is one that's stuck for me.
It's taking me forever to read this book... here's the reason:
"He dint say no moren that. The crowd 1/2 of them larft out and 1/2 of them syd deap."
He didn't say more than that. Half the crowd laughed out loud and the other half sighed deeply.
Hoban succeeded in making the reader slow down and process what he wrote.
I'm enjoying the book and it's the first one I've read written in a different dialect, but it's definitely a challenge.