The problem with Basis Points, and one that ultimately kept me from enjoying the novel, is its atrocious grammar. I wince at obvious grammatical or syntactical errors, but the flaws in this book are egregious. Basis Points is rife with run-on sentences; there are one-sentence paragraphs, some without even a hint of punctuation, which must be reread several times for full comprehension. Furthermore, quotation marks are misplaced throughout sections of complete dialogue that render it almost impossible to discern which character is saying what. At times, the imagination of the reader must dictate the flow of the conversation, because there is no definite beginning or end. I actually, on several occasions, simply set the book down out of
