Do Dashes and Ellipses Make You Stutter?

So I just finished reading a published book, and no, I won’t say which one was it, and I found a GREAT amount of m dashes (—) and ellipses...  especially in dialogue, through the whole novel.

So it kind of read like this (I'm exaggerating, of course):

“What do you mean? Could it actually—”

“I mean—yeah, it could happen.”

“Oh right. So I think—I think that… wait. Did you see that?”

I had the impression everyone was stammering while they spoke. And seriously? Sometimes I didn’t even have a clue about what the characters were going to say because the writer interrupted the dialogue plenty of times.  And the flow—the flow—was… was terrible for me.  

 

So I guess that I’m just saying that I prefer when the dialogue “sings” till the end (most of the time), and we aren’t left wondering what the hell the character was going to say. 

Okay, so maybe that was just a pet peeve of mine. What do you think? 

PS:  A lovely thirteen-year-old writer interviewed me for her blog--if you want to check it out, go here. ;)