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>>16274495
He doesn’t hate proper punctuation, nothing done is grammatically incorrect, except for bending the rules of dialogue a bit. It’s just his style: simple, like many contemporary American authors.
There are advantages to writing as he does. Lack of quotations forces him to make it very clear who’s speaking. The uncluttered aesthetic of the text draws the reader in and onward. He can play with other literary tools, like sentences length to evoke certain feelings in the text (ex: the infamous Comanche attack in BM puts you in the middle of the confusing fray with its run on sentences) and repetition.
The style also establishes tone. It gives the feeling of some drunk cowboy with a comically stereotypical drawl narrating the story. The feeling he is going for is completely different to a meandering, complex and humorous Ishmael.
It’s his thing, I wouldn’t suggest you copy it. Learn about why authors write the way they do and then come up with your own “thing”!