“The Road” by Cormac McCarthy held me captive, staying up all night immersed in its pages, awakening the next morning with a lingering sense of melancholy. Stephen King’s works, especially “The Shining,” share that unique ability to make you eagerly anticipate the next page, constantly wondering what twist awaits.
The quotation mark thingy also happened to me. At first I thought I had bought an ill formated version (I mostly read digital).
After trying to find out what had gone wrong with my book on the internet, I came across an article talking about this and that’s how I found out it was supposed to be that way.
It took me a bit aback, but after a few pages I forgot about it.