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Old 05-10-2012, 02:51 PM   #18
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It depends on the book. I liked the first person perspective for the Dresden Series for a while but now I am bored with it. Mainly, I want to get a better feel for what is happening with the other characters and how they are responding and the first person perspective does not really allow me to do that.
Some books do a first person point of view, and then break away for a third person perspective. The first time I encountered this (I think it was a James Patterson) I was quite disconcerted by the technique, but nowadays find it quite natural, and it helps ameliorate the problem you describe. Jonathan Kellerman also uses it to good effect in his latter Alex Delaware novels.
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