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⌈ Secret Post #6596 ⌋

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Comments

Re: 1st person POV preferences

[(Anonymous)]

On fanfic? HELL NO.
On original works? HELL YEAH.

I'm the exact opposite of philstar22 above. I love listening to/reading about people narrating their own story, be it in novels or real life. First person POV are especially good when coupled with unreliable narrator.
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro is easily one of my top 5 novels of all time and an excellent example on how to use first person narration.

I also read a lot of Japanese novels and they often use first person narration over there (possibly because of the widespread tradition of nikki-like novels written predominantly by women). Sayaka Murata is currently one of my favourite novelist and she's fucking nuts and I think she wrote everything is first person narration. the reason something like Chikyuu Seijin is so effective and absolutely horrifying/alienating is because you're inside the protagonist's head and it's a mess of strangely logical conclusions inside there.
Asylum by Patrick McGrath is another example of a novel that could only be written in first person narration to be as effective as it was (even if the protagonist of the story is NOT the one narrating the story).

I read a lot of third person POV narration, too, but first person narration has its place and I love it in original work.

Re: 1st person POV preferences

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, this is me exactly, right down to loving Sayaka Murata! There is a lot of badly done first person, but there's a lot of badly done everything, and at least badly done first person is pretty obvious really early so you can nope out. Good first person is incredibly rewarding.

Re: 1st person POV preferences

[(Anonymous)]

Same.

I will drop a first person book faster than 3rd person, but that's mostly because an annoying character for me is even more noticeable when I'm stuck in their head, but there are first person books I very much enjoy because it works for the story being told.

But in fanfic? Nope, it doesn't work for me because while we can have our personal interpretations all we like, we aren't the one who wrote the story so I just cannot buy the personal opinions of a fan being 'the characters thoughts/feelings' anywhere close to the original author.