first person POV or third person POV?

Indonesia
July 19, 2008 3:45am CST
hello, novel writers.. a few days ago i read "My Name is Red," a novel written by Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Laureate in Literature in 2006. it's an amazing novel. it uses first-person point of view. i don't know why, i promptly got a thinking that first-person POV is the best technique to make the reader feels what the characters think, do, and imagine...and this kind of feeling is very difficult to attain while using third-person POV. what do you think about that? which technique do you choose and use, and why? in what kind of novel you use first-person POV? and, in what kind of novel you use third-person POV? thanks for responding :-)
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patgalca
@patgalca (18392)
• Orangeville, Ontario
19 Jul 08
The two novels I have written are in third person POV so that I can show others' thoughts. The next book I want to write will be in first person. I have already written the opening scene but would rather wait until my other novels are edited and out in the hands of agents and publishers before I start on another project. I read a book where the author went back and forth from first person and third person as well as past tense and present tense. I thought it rather confusing at first but it is an award winning book. The print-out of my books read isn't updated so I would have to go onto the document on file and look it up. I am on a different computer right now so can't do it. I will try and get back. I did meet the author in person for a one-on-one critique, which is why I read her books. I think it might have been "Ten Good Seconds of Silence" by Elizabeth Ruth.