Reddit reviews A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel

It's all dependent on what you want to do. Plenty of authors have written dialogue in dialect. Plenty others have written it normally and used narration/dialogue tags. Consider the effect of both. Dialects can be extraordinarily useful in showing a character is an outsider—everyone is talking one way, but this character is talking another. It's never just about verisimilitude or mimesis. If that's the only effect you're going for, I'd say just let us know the character has an accent. You can tell us that plainly, or you can have characters they come in contact with regularly asking where they're from, etc.

If you're going to use dialects, I'd strongly recommend you read a lot of works that use dialects. Ideally, you'd be able to find some examples of characters that speak in the dialects you're interested in using to see how others have done it. Off the top of my head, a recent (and excellent) book with heavy dialect is A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James, which won the Man Booker a few years ago. One of the POV characters speaks in a Jamaican accent in narration and dialogue alike.

There's a great history book Season Of The Witch about 60s-80s San Francisco that gets into government infiltration of the counterculture, including the Black Panthers. And then there's the novel A Brief History Of Seven Killings about the assassination attempt on Bob Marley.

So hard to separate fact from fiction with this stuff... I'm with /u/BeachStoop in being v skeptical about conspiracy theories. Like yeah, that Dopey guest was so far out there - seems like it's a coping mechanism about the insecurity of not being totally in control.

See also: Hanlon's Razor - sometimes people aren't evil, they're just stupid.

For those who are more interested in Jamaican history and Mr. Marley, may I recommend A Brief history of seven killings?