Just out of curiosity ...

[sholio]

Yeah, I'm using radio buttons so you have to pick one. *g* This doesn't mean that you'd never read something written in first, or rotating third -- just what you're most comfortable reading, or what might tip the balance if you had to choose between two very similar-looking books or stories. (I'm leaving off second entirely ...)

[Poll #1600796]

Feel free to elaborate on your answer in comments, if you like!

Comments

[lavvyan.livejournal.com]

I really dislike first person POV both in fan- and profic. This made it rather hard to get into Holmes fandom, but there you go.

The only exception is Jim Butcher. He really has a handle on his character in the Dresden Files through the first person POV, but his Codex Alera doesn't work for me at all because he keeps slipping and messing up the third person voices.

I'm generally a difficult reader to please, anyway, but if an author writes in third person single POV at least they have a head start.

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

Re: Holmes fandom - ha. Yeah. I guess that would be a problem.

I couldn't get into Codex Alera for entirely different reasons; it just wasn't very good (at least I didn't think so).

My preference for 3rd over 1st (in original fiction, anyway) really isn't that strong. I'll happily read and enjoy both. But there's something about 3rd that works a little better for me -- though I've noticed that I can get a lot of the same things from rotating 1st (like multiple books in a series being from different 1st-person viewpoints, for example), because stepping out of the character's head and seeing things from a different angle is one of the things that makes 1st feel rather limiting to me.