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Originally Posted by kennyc
I'm with Apache here. I can understand how some readers might not like it. Different strokes for different folks, eh? It's like 2nd person is almost never used, but one of my favorite stories is in 2nd person - "The Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang
http://marianaeggers.com/files/tiechang.pdf
and not only that it's in future tense. It's amazing.
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I only ever read one 2nd person book (or tried to, anyway), can't remember what it was called now but it was by Ian Banks. It didn't really help that the character was as far removed from me as you could get.
1st person there's a lot of shoddy work out there, both self and corporation published, but it can work well. It's just hard to write it well, and for some reason new writers almost always seem to automatically go for it.