/lit/ - Literature

Twilight. Trufax.

I wish I was kidding, but Twilight.

I guess Jane Eyre when I was about 15 but who the hell wants to read something "romantic"?

Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood.

Eugene Onegin. It's not that romantic.

But I don't read romance.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

I loved that dog.

Tristian und Isolde

Their Eyes Were Watching God

The most romantic thing about it is how the ultimate love interest is kind of a schmuck but still brings his partner alive in a way that is familiar to anyone who has ever borne witness to a love affair that seems to outside observers as if one party is clearly settling but is nonetheless obviously very genuine and powerful. Any 4chan poster should be drawn to dandruff-picking as a display of Tru Luv.

Gone With the Wind. Movie was fucking long as shit, but great.

Jude the Obscure. I wouldn't say it's lovey-dovey romantic, but it's very honest about how men and women relate to one another, which is maybe why the British public found it so revolting.

I would like some recommendatiosn of this sort. The only romance I've ever read (aside from Shakespeare) is The Time Traveller's Wife. Which was okay, I guess.

I feel like I should probably read some pre-20th century classics, but I'm more interested in something contemporary. That also isn't chick-lit like TTW kinda was.

Norwegian Wood

>>2154083
Norwegian Wood is a wonderful starting place.

Pic related. Also Snow Falling on Cedars, but I might have liked that just because I'm from the Pacific NW.

>>2154083
>The only romance I've ever read... is The Time Traveller's Wife

Get. Out.

>>2154126

No

>>2154126
>singling that out over twilight

>>2154142

Yeah, and everyone actually thinks a story about a dude cock blocked by his departed best friend's suicidal girl friend is a great romance.

>no Charterhouse of Parma

come the fuck on /lit/

A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr. Of course the focus of the book wasn't on romance, but I found the relationship between Mrs. Keach and Tom Birkin to be extremely romantic.

Dunno about novel but the play Translations by Brian Friel is just, god damn. Best love scene ever.

High Fidelity.

Though:
Has there ever been a husband wife team who authored any romances?

High Fidelity.

Thought:
Has there ever been a husband wife team who authored any romances?

>>2154331
Don't tempt Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman

The Actual by Saul Bellow

>>2154331

Won't lie, I had to read High Fidelity twice just to realize Rob has a pretty shitty attitude and is kind of a bad guy. I really liked it though, but I've read some of Hornby's other stuff and it just doesn't quite par (Juliet, Naked was like his Tender Is The Night).

>>2154331
High Fidelity is an Adam Sandler movie cloaked in respectability - vibrant manchild made whole by the love of an understanding good woman. If it'd been adapted to film a decade later it would have been directed by Judd Apatow. I still kind of like it - movie more than novel but I'd be fronting if I pretended the book didn't charm me as a 19-year-old.

Dorothy Parker and her husband wrote a romantic comedy or two together, but they were screenplays, not novels - same for Dave Eggers and his wife. Of course there's probably more implied sex in A Star is Born than there was actual sex in Parker's marriage.

High Fidelity was about an immature guy. And it was more about romance really. (More break-ups) I realized that halfway through the post. It did entertain and inform so I had a strong memory of it. But perhaps I've never read a real romance.

For my other thought.
Maybe its best romance be written by one perspective

>>2154360
I certainly don't think it's counter to Hornby's vision to recognize that High Fidelity is about an immature asshole. It's kind of weird how many young men (and women, probably) read that book and don't recognize that, though.

A Clockwork Orange.
It was dripping in beautiful romantic sex. A must read.

surprised this hasn't been mentioned. Atonement.

Cold Mountain I guess.

I'm sorry this is pathetically cliché, but the greatest portrayal of love I've read was the Great Gatsby. Not romantic, per se, but beautiful and a real love story.

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>>2153954
Sure is Murakami in there

>>2154933

I love Fitzgerald. "No amount of fir nor freshness can destroy what a man will hold in his ghostly heart"

This Side of Paradise is also about young loves. And The Beautiful and Damned is what happens when love starts to fade

Lolita

philosophy in the bedroom by marquis de sade

>>2154954
but only the first half

>>2154980
i'll burn your fucking house down and empty my clip

>>2154983
Naw man, the whole thing is good, but the second half is less romantic and more sexual.