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What is the most romantic book you've read?

>> No.11070857

>>11070851
Werther

>> No.11070858

not my diary desu

>> No.11070933

Unironically Paradise Lost

>> No.11071947

Crime and Punishment.

>> No.11071975

>>11070933
Not even the lengthy descriptions of A D A M boning E V E are very romantic. Idylls of the King is much more emotionally engaging. Milton ruins anything he gets going with didactic descriptions of obscure Armenian mountain ranges and the like

>> No.11072072

Kokoro, only not between the wife and teacher, but the teacher and student :3

>> No.11072105

>>11070851
I only read shitty YA fiction in terms of romance novels specifically, but if you accept plays, then Romeo and Juliet is a classic and Twelfth Night is also good.

>> No.11072109

>>11072072
This so much

>> No.11072113

Swann in Love

>> No.11072123

That scene in Dubliners where the dying kid runs out in the rain to see the girl. holy fucking shit

>> No.11072130

>>11070851
Don't need a book, just read "Araby"

>> No.11072208

Lolita

>> No.11072249

>>11072208
The only convincing love story

>> No.11072378

Mein Kampf

>> No.11072392

>>11072123
Which story is this? Araby?

>> No.11072393

>>11072392
pleb

>> No.11072477

Moby-Dick

>> No.11072487

>>11072477
Moby-Dick a romance?

>> No.11073159

Catch Her in the Rye

>> No.11074384

>>11072105
what are some good YA romance books?

>> No.11074495

>>11074384
go away

>> No.11074517

>>11074495
That's a great one.

>> No.11074783

>>11072392
the dead

>> No.11074788

Unironically Spice and Wolf.

>> No.11074816

>>11074788
I was looking at the series of books, but like their are like 20 books. Is it worth reading all of them, or is there a certain point that I should stop.

>> No.11074820

Tender is the night

>> No.11074825

>>11073159
kek

>> No.11074830

Faust

>> No.11074935

>>11074816
First five are good, then it starts fucking around and only gets good again at thirteen. Three of the books are just extras and side stories while the last one is an epilogue. You could skip all the volumes in between and miss very little, but if medieval economics and romance is your thing, it's definitely worth reading. They're all very light reading, so don't let the number of volumes seem too daunting.

>> No.11074940

>>11070851
harry potter and the half-blood prince

>> No.11074946

Hybrid Heart

I mean Jude the Obscure

I mean Edith Hamilton's Mytheries

>> No.11075014

An Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

>> No.11075086

Kerouac, On The Road, when he's with Terry the mexican girl or officially known as Bea. Such a beautiful part of the book.

>> No.11075164

>>11074820
This desu.
Tfw gave it to a girl I liked with a sweet inscription on the inside of the cover and she either never opened it or didn't think it deserved acknowledgment

>> No.11075206

>>11075164
lmao your diary must be a tragedy. It's alright though anon because you did something that I'm certain that any lit girl would have loved to have received such a gift. Better luck next time.

>> No.11075401

>>11070851
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

Is it possible to experience an intimate romantic relationship and devastating heartbreak with a literary character such as Albertine Simonet?

>> No.11075423

>>11075164
You a nice. Keep your chin up.

>> No.11075446

Venus in Furs

>> No.11075472

>>11074384
Lord of Scoundrels
By Loretta Chase.

And for something more YA, there's The Red Leather Diaries. By Lilly Koppel. It's the one piece of YA Non-fiction I have read. It's a great Diary Story.

>> No.11075496

my favorite is I, Strahd

>> No.11075614

>>11075164
in my experience lots of girls are like that, and it kinda sucks, just completely sandbagging a message like that

>> No.11075680

>>11074384
I can't remember most of their names since it's been years, but a couple names off the top of my head are Sundays at Tiffany's, the Divergent series and then there was one where the girl is in a coma and she has this out-of-body ghost experience where she's going around and finding out what people think of her. There's Pride and Prejudice too, but it wasn't my thing. I was more of a fan of having the romance as a secondary in my YA. The developement of the relationships were often the most anticipated parts for me, and got me through the other, sometimes boring, parts.

>> No.11075685

>>11075680
Ash Fall is another I just remembered.

>> No.11075861

>>11070851
Jayne Eyre.
Mr Rochester is me.
Only I don't have money, or respect, or a house, or a long life experience of interesting travels through Europe, or a series of mistresses, or any woman's interest.
Don't even know if I could love anybody, don't even like the book for pure romance, just a cozy series of conversations with great characters.

>> No.11076032

>>11075164
what was your inscription?

>> No.11076611

>>11075861
so in what way are you Mr Rochester again?

>> No.11076646

Eleonor and Park
Back when i was 15 i had a gf who was chubby, and im not asian but people often say so, so i read this book for that girl, we readed it together, it was beautiful, she had to leave town for family issues too