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First of all, I was not challenging the idea if it is easier for a women to write about a man or vice versa. I was focused on a technical trick for a literature work: writing as the first person...

It seems that you lost the point I was focused on. I’ll try to explain it in Russian.


В любом литературном произведении есть такое понятие как рассказчик. И именно от его лица ведется...

First person narration is the narration by a person who has participated in the story him/herself.
Third person narration is the narration by a person who does not participate in the narrated story....

Все-таки там "Жила-была в одной деревне маленькая девочка". Т.е. повествование ведется от третьего лица, а не от самой девочки.

I read the short stories collection "Bears discover fire" by Terry Bisson. In the stories "Two Janets", "Two Guys From the Future" and a couple of other stories I've encountered an intriguing...

Wow, rockzmom,

this is quite a good discussion on the topic with a number of interesting comments:


Well, the "Time Traveler's Wife" is now in my reading list for sure. By the way I was quite...

Well, thus using the typical past tense for a story flow is a sort of a movie in a cinema when a reader watch it as a third person, while the present tense is a sort of first person 3D shooter (PC...

I've started "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" by Ken Kesey. Well, this is quite a hard journey with a lot of things which refer to a US way of life and are a sort of a puzzle for a non US person. On...

Thanks all for encouraging me.

Actually I already get both short and full versions on my e-reader and this is why I am swaying in my choice. If had only one version I would have no choice and no...

I am planning to read "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes though it would be a hard journey for a non-native since a great part of the story is written with mistakes as a little boy would write...

Just found about an on-line service which can help to select what to read next "What Should I Read Next? Book recommendations from readers like you". If you enter the book title which you like it...

I've just read the short story "Explorers we" by Philip K. Dick. The story is only about a half dozen pages and tells us about the return of spacemen from a space trip. Finding themselves back on the...

As I read the text of "The Gingerbread Man" I found it to be extremely close to the Russian Kolobok fairy tale. Even the way the bread sings. The English song is just a word to word version of the...

After the movies in the following list were released there was no any way to be anything but "Robinson and Crusoe" :D .

Being a student I've attended a quantum mechanics course. The course consisted of lectures, where a professor read us the theory, and seminars, where we, divided in small groups, were practicing in...