What's Your Favorite POV to Read in?
- Rangerkay
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What's Your Favorite POV to Read in?
Is there a specific genre you prefer to read in first person?
What is your least favorite to read in?
Are action novels better to read in first person?
I know personally I could read in almost any point of view. My favorite would have to be first person because I feel that it truly captures me to read more. The plot and story line seem to come alive in first person.
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Well-written third person (that is consistent in perspective throughout a given section or chapter) can bring a reader remarkably close to the action/character. Its a cliché reference, but J.K. Rowling does a great job of helping us identify with Harry and his perspective/being in the moment with him while staying in third person.
First person can be almost "too far in", I think. So I guess I personally feel like first person works best when its a choice that is intended not just to get us into the action, but when there's a driving character issue at play that first person really improves. For example, Tana French's latest standalone novel "The Witch Elm" is in first person- and the first-person allows the main character's own personal issues to be the "real" underlying story of the novel, which follows the mystery of a discovery in his family's old witch elm. I just finished Roxane Gay's collection of short stories, "Difficult Women," and it was fascinating to me to see when she went into first person and when she went into third. I really felt "just as intimate" in every story; it was just a matter of how fused with the psychology of the character / how she wanted to present the story
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However, there are many good first-person books. Thanks to a good language and an interesting plot, I can forget about my “book claustrophobia”.
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