First person narrative

[DwangelaForever]

I'm sorry but I hate it.

I've been trying to read a book for about a week and I can't get into it because it's written in first person narrative.

I'm trying to persevere as I got it as an ARC to review but I just can't get past it

Im not a fan of first person narratives either but i have read some because the story itself was good. Maybe the book is actually a bit shit and thats why you cant get past it?

What's the book... it could just be a shit read!

They aren't all bad... Twighlight and The Hunger Games did quite well

If you hate it then at least it's something that you can tell from the very first page, so you can choose not to buy the book.

I love the first person narrator! I feel I can really get inside their head.

It's a book coming out in Feb called The Pact by SE Lynes and I absolutely love the concept but I can't get over the narrative!

I prefer first person!

Third person reminds me I'm reading a book.

I'd agree. One of my favourite reads is Interview with a Vampire... Louis as narrator allows all sorts of clever observations that would be far too laboured otherwise.

Sorry, I misunderstood the ARC reference.

That has to be a pain, get a free book and not like it yet still have to read it

Do you HAVE to read it? Or have you just been offered the opportunity to read it?

Send it to me, I'll read it and give you some comments :)

It's the only type I can stand to read (or write, for that matter). Third person doesn't situate you convincingly enough within the narrative. Second person shouldn't even be attempted!

I'll agree that second person only works in a choose your own adventure book.

First or third can both be good in different stories.

Twilight?! Twilight wasn't bad?

It was prettymuch universally agreed to be a steaming pile of badly written, poorly plotted, deeply cliched donkey manure as far as I recall.

Twilight?! Twilight wasn't bad? I didn't say it was good... just that, like The Hunger Games, it did well.

Twilight is very engaging.

I once read a quote (can't remember whose) that 'only geniuses or idiots write in the first person'.

I don't agree with that - any narrative style is fine as long as the novel is well-written.

I don't mind the first person narrative but dislike books written in the preset tense.

It helps if the writers can spell "present" unlike me.

50 shades was first person and that was amazing

Lolololol joke! Back to reality, I love first person but I find it misses too much in general... unless it’s a jump around first person (where it’s different people). I like those, different view points of the same story

Tricky

I was trying to construct a sentence in the preset tense

• knowing the number 92 bus was going to swerve to miss a dog I stepped aside, raised my hat to the gentleman who was about to walk around the corner and slid into the last seat available in my favourite coffee shop!

Oh yes present tense can be very annoying.

Curious, that ranks with those strange writings which completely avoid using the letter 'e' or that backwards "Time's Arrow" book by Martin Amis.

You are a literary pioneer.

It doesn't really bother me what person narrative a book is written in tbh,although if pushed I'd probably say that I actually prefer it written in the first person. On the other hand,my DD actively dislikes books written in the first person. And I agree with what a PP said about books written in the present tense. I also find them a rather annoying.

I can't read books written in the 1st person at all, I just cab;t get into them. In my 'youth' or pre-kids I was an avid reader and spent hours perusing WH Smiths checking if books were suitable or hanging out in the library.

Now I have taken up reading again it's easy with the 'look inside' kindle feature

Try "Buffalo Soldiers" by Robert O'Connor, written in the second person, present tense, but plainly from the point of view of a single narrator.

It's exhausting.