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What's the best romance novel? I've only ever read one which was Maurice.

>> No.1098894

There is no best romance novel, because there are no good ones (much like how there are no good fantasy or science fiction novels)

>> No.1098898

Norwegian Wood

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>>1098894

>> No.1098910

>>1098903
Are you trying to tell me that you like romance novels? LOL

>> No.1098911

>>1098898
Oh dear me. I've totally forgotten about this... but then I've read it already. :( Any other suggestions?

>> No.1098915

>>1098911
idk i think jonathan safran foer writes some cool novels with love as a major them but im not sure if you could call it romance. 'everything is illuminated' is really nice and touching!

>> No.1098921

*theme

>> No.1098923

Well, very few of the novels I've read are of the romance variety, but I've read several romantic novels. My favorite of the latter variety is probably Les Miserables, or maybe Moby Dick.

>> No.1098936

>>1098910

"romance" isn't just Mills & Boon.

>> No.1098938

>>1098923
Moby-Dick is gay romance though

>> No.1098939

>>1098915
Everything Illuminated looks good, although still /r/ suggestions.

>> No.1098942

ps, i love you

>> No.1099031

Are you talking about Romance as in Romanticism like Hoffmann and Novalis or about Romance as in Meyer and Brontè?

>> No.1099037

>>1098898
this...if you're 12

>> No.1099044

Wuthering Heights. Love hurts - deal with it.

>> No.1099045 [DELETED] 

Since you've read Norwegian Wood maybe you'll try other Jap Lit.


jap heartbreakers:
Snow Country- Kawabata
Spring Snow- Mishima
Sound of Waves- Mishima

>> No.1099052

i read a good one that took place on this sparsely populated island on the puget sound ... involved the interplay between white and japanese communities ... no fucking clue what the title is though, maybe a kind anon can fill that in for me.

>> No.1099085

>>1099037
huh? i dont think its a childrens book