At 12:38 PM 5/23/02 -0700, you wrote:
><<Incidentally, I know two people who won't
read what they
>call "I" novels.>>
>
>The danger is that the author become too identified
with
>the protagonist who tells the story. It would be
very
>interesting (to me, if to no-one else) to see a
Spenser
>novel in the third person. I think Parker, who can
surely
>write in any person with total ease, should try
it.
>
>First person also seems to lead to a lot of
filler
>dialogue, which I find annoying.
>
>I know for sure that Westlake's Parker novels would
not
>work in the first person. The character could not
preserve
>his mystique.
My novel (my first) is in the first person, and my experience
is that writing in the first person is far more challenging
than than writing in the third person. Besides, sometimes it
just fits.:)
Just my two cents.;)
Brian
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