Posted by Peter Ceresole on October 05, 2009 at 19:23:54 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Writing in the first person posted by Claire on October 05, 2009 at 18:08:24:
There is one other instance of addressing the reader impersonally outside of the story, that occurs in The Big Six.
Well spotted. But it's very different from the first person stuff in SA, and much easier to take. AR doesn't, so to speak, bust the proscenium arch. He just treats the story as being in the factual world.
I don't know about you, but for me one of the great attractions of the books is that they feel real anyway; many of my impressions of England in the '30s, valid or not, come from the books.