It's getting harder and harder to find books written in the third person.

What on earth is up with all the first person stuff? I can manage first person with a few writers, but really, I mostly avoid books (fiction, that is) written like that.

Over and over I'll check out a new (to me) author only to find the pestilential "I" strewn over the first page.

Does everyone else really like books written in the first person?

Rowling has an incredible knack for characterization.

Especially Bad Guys! She's absolutely wizard when it comes to Bad Guys.

I'm rereading Chamber of Secrets, and once again am longing to pound that pestilential Gilderoy Lockhart right into the ground. He's the most annoying person in the entire series, I'm thinking.