First person, I like to read up on.

[YmaOHyd]

King has plenty of first-person stories though? Off the top of my head: "Strawberry Spring", "The Green Mile", two-thirds of "Christine", "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption". I think it's more common with his short stories, but looks like he has several other first-person novels:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ConstantReader/comments/iozf7x/stephen_king_books_written_in_firstperson

The best sections in It are the ones in first-person from Mike Hanlon's perspective, and I think the best of those are the ones in nested first-person: Mike Hanlon's first-person POV receiving a story from a third party which is itself told in the first person. Done artfully, it puts the reader in three separate times. When Mike's father tells him about the fire at the Black Spot, you're simultaneously in 1985 as the diary is being written, in 1962 as the story is being told, and in 1930 as the events of the story unfold.

 

[Britva415]

Guess you wouldn't like Frankenstein either, then. Told from first Victor's POV, then the Creature.

I haven't read it, but, how are the two narratives framed? Even more to the point, how are they framed together?

Possible answers are:
Compellingly and believably
Sensibly and plausibly
Weirdly and jarringly
Not at all
Not at all, but the writing and the story are good enough that one doesn't notice or care.

 

[Djmac1031]

I haven't read it, but, how are the two narratives framed? Even more to the point, how are they framed together?

Possible answers are:
Compellingly and believably
Sensibly and plausibly
Weirdly and jarringly
Not at all
Not at all, but the writing and the story are good enough that one doesn't notice or care.

And of course those answers are subjective to the individual reader.

Hey just because both Dracula and Frankenstein are considered classics doesn't mean everyone has to enjoy their particular style.

I happen to like both very much, although Frankenstein does tend to dwell in a maudlin "woe as me and my miserable lot in life" place for too long in some sections.

 

[Britva415]

of course those answers are subjective to the individual reader.

One of them isn't

Anyway: Most of the time, the absence of a frame doesn't make me hate the work, it's just something to look past.

Sometimes it's harder than others.

 

[StillStunned]

One of the really interesting things to try with first person POV is the "unrevealing narrator," where the narrator, telling the story in first person, COULD reveal everything to you as a reader, but chooses not to, keeping you in suspense until the end. It's tricky, but when done well it's very suspenseful.

A good example is Scott Turow's crime thriller Presumed Innocent, which is told from the point of view of a prosecuting attorney who is charged with the murder of a fellow prosecutor with whom he had an affair. Throughout the novel you wonder about his guilt or innocence, and you don't learn the truth until the end. Turow is a very good writer, too.

Another great example of this style of first person narration is Agatha Christie's novel The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd.

Ah, dammit! Open up the hutch, here's another plot bunny!

 

[Bramblethorn]

One of the really interesting things to try with first person POV is the "unrevealing narrator," where the narrator, telling the story in first person, COULD reveal everything to you as a reader, but chooses not to, keeping you in suspense until the end. It's tricky, but when done well it's very suspenseful.

A good example is Scott Turow's crime thriller Presumed Innocent, which is told from the point of view of a prosecuting attorney who is charged with the murder of a fellow prosecutor with whom he had an affair. Throughout the novel you wonder about his guilt or innocence, and you don't learn the truth until the end. Turow is a very good writer, too.

Another great example of this style of first person narration is Agatha Christie's novel The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd.

Another is Len Deighton's "The Ipcress File". He tells the reader what his protagonist observes, but what the protagonist makes of it all is obscured until the end.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

One of the really interesting things to try with first person POV is the "unrevealing narrator," where the narrator, telling the story in first person, COULD reveal everything to you as a reader, but chooses not to, keeping you in suspense until the end. It's tricky, but when done well it's very suspenseful.

A good example is Scott Turow's crime thriller Presumed Innocent, which is told from the point of view of a prosecuting attorney who is charged with the murder of a fellow prosecutor with whom he had an affair. Throughout the novel you wonder about his guilt or innocence, and you don't learn the truth until the end. Turow is a very good writer, too.

Another great example of this style of first person narration is Agatha Christie's novel The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd.

Mr. Robot is this in many places. Second Season most notorious for that until the plot twist at the end of the "Handshake" episode which left many of us watching while the series went on air scratching the couch while we were the ones having an asthma attack. It was easier for Elliot to do this from a writing perspective though considering there's no fourth wall in the show.

 

[HelenL]

As so many mentioned, Murderbot Diaries. Not just because they're so good with first-person POV and allowing you to experience the setting, but because Murderbot has an incredible internal monologue. It's angsty and fearful and very rarely murderous, but by hell it can get a good rage on for the entities threatening its friends.

Any of the Harry Dresden books by Jim Butcher.