All the Pretty Horses First Reading

So I just read to the break on page thirty in All the Pretty Horses.  The story hasn’t been all that interesting so.  The protagonist, John Grady Cole, and his dad are sad; reasons for this include the recent divorce of Joe’s parents and the recent death of Joe’s grandfather.  It’s only at the very end of this reading section that things appear to be getting good as he and his friend Rawling are to be about to start an adventure of some sort.  That should be cool.  The characters’ dialect is nice because it effectively characterizes them as Texans.  The lack of quotations was a little difficult to get used to, but it is an interesting technique, somewhat blending the dialogue in with the rest of the text.  Also, many pronouns are used where it would be clearer to use actual names.  This makes it somewhat hard to understand what is happens at times but can actually add an air of mystery to conversations between characters when this occurs in the things they are saying.