First Person or Third Person?

[Tumper]

I don't mind either way as long as it's well written and enjoyable.

[vinay87]

Depends on two things. The writer and the character. If I find the character to be an annoying prick then heaven forbid such a book is ever forced upon me! But then again, there are writers who can do the impossible and make even the point of view of an annoying character very entertaining.

 

I've read a few first person style books. Of late though, most of my reading has been in that style. I can't bring myself around to write in first person though, because that way I end up putting too much of myself into the character. I prefer a third person non-universal point of view, if that is an accepted term (I came across that somewhere, can't remember where), where the reader can, forgive the pun, read the character's thoughts and not the thoughts of the other characters but he still sees a little more than the POV character actually sees. Thus the field of vision, so to speak, is not limited and the reader can easily infer more from what he has read than the actual character himself at times.

 

Examples would be J K Rowling's style where it is easy to see more than Harry does through her writing. Also Robert Jordan's.