First place for great use of First person narration goes to Kazuo Ishiguroo

"My name is Kathy H. I'm thirty-one years old, and I've been a carer now for over eleven years." Kathy Page 1
The book Never Let Me Go is told through a first person narrative. I have always personally favored first person told stories, but this book has done it in one of the best ways I've read. Normally the benefits of a first person work is that you feel more in tune with a certain character which allows you to relate to it more and quite frankly get more into the book. However, a major drawback of a first person narrative is that they are normally so bias. In some cases it even seems like it's the author telling the story or their opinions, not the character simply retelling an important part of their life. Kazuo (got to love the name) avoids this and actually enhances the book by doing a few good things. Firstly he makes the main character a female and what's more is it actually reads as though the narrator is a female. Also she is an extremely likable character who you want to root for. Unlike Bernard Marx in Brave New World (who I personally wanted to strangle myself), Kath seems to be fairly level headed and wise beyond her years. Also Kath's character narration isn't outrageously bias, but rather objective in a sense. She takes the time to try to understand another person's reasoning or behavior, which I think most people do. Still she isn't completely unbiased which I think makes her a much more realistic read. I don't think the story could have been told in third person because you would have lost the emotional connection. The whole point of this book is to view it from the side of those who are a minority of sorts. It also fuels the idea that they are real people with real emotions- not just science experiments.