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 ...)

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

Comments

[sholio]

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.