User blog comment:Zathronas/Author's Advice: 1st or 3rd person?/@comment-98.109.162.219-20140131193810

I always loved Edgar Allan Poe's first person narration, if he had used 3rd person for most of his stories, the stories would have lost most of their magic.

Also, not all 3rd person narrators are omniscient or have god like abilities, in some stories the narrator's knowledge is very limited