How many kids books -- or novels of any kind -- have only passive descriptions of what people said

I should clarify that in the first case I was talking about oral storytelling. My second complaint more generally applies to the written word.

This is entirely subjective, of course, but my choice of the word reenactment was deliberate. Often, I'm not told what happened; I'm given a tedious play-by-play of both sides of the interaction.

    so I was like do you wanna see a movie
    and he was like I guess
    and I was like, what do you mean you guess
    and he's just like, I dunno, I guess
    and I'm like just tell me if you want to or not
    and he's all like get off my back
    and I'm all like I'm not on your back

10 minutes later what I've learned is that you had a fight about indecision; but I also got to see a horribly-acted one-man play!

That's what I'm complaining about, not, more generally, the use of quoting as a literary device.