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... or Faulkner, Dostoevvsky, Twain, Salinger, Bronte, Fitzgerald, or Conrad ... as it's clear they'd receive no warm fuzzies from you.

(Now SECOND person - that's worth snubbing :p)

Edited (oops) 2013-01-19 20:37 (UTC)

This! <3 Conan Doyle also. And Clive Staples Lewis. And Jerome-Jerome.

Yes, ugh, second person. Are there even actual books written in second person?..

Although, admittedly, I'm ready to ignore whatever person author chooses to write in, if the fic is otherwise good.

*nods*

Second person has always seemed to me to be well-suited for two things: horror and a certain type of bondage-fic (what with the nameless speaker addressing the reader's "you" like a stalkery puppetmaster who has complete knowledge and complete control).

I feel like second person can come out very natural for videogame fandoms; game immersion means having the whole world refer to the character you're playing as 'you'.

Hm, I can see that.

(Though for me that still translates to first person (at least in games I've played, which are almost all MMOs), since I think I parse the "you" as coming at me in dialog rather than narrative.)

I know Timothy Findlay's The Wars uses second person in parts. I don't know of any other books that do so.

If on a winter's night a traveler is... well, mostly written in 2nd person, and it's one of my favorite books.

This! It's a fantastic book, and really the only novel in 2nd Person that I've ever read

And Right Ho, Jeeves. Bertie Wooster's voice is a joy.

I have nothing against the first person, but if I came across a fic written in Charles Dickens's style, I probably would not be leaving kudos. Maybe if it were a particularly funny parody, but. The guy was paid by the word and it showed.

I would give so many kudos to anyone who actually managed to pull off Dickens' style. The danger would be falling into parody or pastiche or crappiness.

Yes, Dickens' style is overly verbose, but it's also entertaining, warm, humorous, and full of personality. I can deal with that, personally. I love Dickens and other 19th century novelists, and one of the my favorite fantasy series is essentially a massive homage to Dickens and other 19th century English novelists (Jeffrey Barlough's "Western Lights" series) (read it, it's brilliant)

NA I am taking this rec TO THE BANK, this sounds excellent. Also, ITA re: Dickens's style. I find his characters so incredibly relatable and his settings so rich.

+1

Dickens was verbose, but man could he tell a story. Love love love love love love Dickens and his fellow Victorians.

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