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Originally Posted by HarryT
Isn't that fairly inevitable if an author writes in the first person? One of my pet hates is books that are written in the first person present, which seems to be distressingly common in "YA" books. I tried reading "The Hunger Games", having seen many people recommend it, but that was one of the things about it that really annoyed me.
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I would hope a skilled author wouldn't need to use "I" so frequently. If you are the only character in the chapter, there is no need to start almost every sentence with "I". In the book I just read the first 4 paragraphs contained only 8 sentences with 17 "I"s used.