Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Books narrated in the first person

Options
2»

Comments

  • Options
    #32
    CuLT
    Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    Try reading something written in the first person present tense.

    Utterly maddening.


  • Options
    #33
    Gulliver
    Registered Users Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭Gulliver


    Dean Koontz does this quite well in the Odd Thomas cycle and Life Expectancy. He plays around with the presentation too, often acknowledging his writing style being deliberately light in tone.


  • Options
    #34
    Plowman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Plowman


    This post has been deleted.


  • Options
    #35
    StinkySocs
    Registered Users Posts: 228 ✭✭StinkySocs


    Some of Jonathan Kellerman's books are in first person - it's really annoying, i don't really like it. I've read a few of the Alex Delaware thrillers and they were all in first person. The story lines are good but it's really annoying!


  • Options
    #36
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,171 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    'Written on the Body' by Jeanette Winterson. I enjoyed it a lot.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #37
    Plowman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Plowman


    This post has been deleted.


  • Options
    #38
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,171 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    It must be 15 years or more years since I read it (and of course going rooting for it just now was to no avail), but from what I recall it is a present tense narration. Quite unlike 'Oranges' or any of her others.


  • Options
    #39
    metrovelvet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,376 ✭✭✭metrovelvet


    Lolita -Nabakov
    The Stranger - Camus
    The Sound and the Fury -Faulkner


Advertisement