Romantic books for men

[Anonymous No.12132743]

There is a lot of books about love, but most of them are written for women with the women’s bias of what the perfect relationship would be. Are there any good fiction books written for men about loving a woman?

[Anonymous No.12132750]

Lolita

[Anonymous No.12132754]

>>12132743
A lot of Yerby would probably fit the bill.

[Anonymous No.12132764]

[Anonymous No.12132767]

Man don't love

[Anonymous No.12132775]

>>12132743
How much of her is plastic? She’s hot af, regardless.

[Anonymous No.12132786]

norwegian wood

[Anonymous No.12132788]

>>12132786
thats a song dumbo

[Anonymous No.12132811]

>>12132786
OP here. Already read that one. I like Murakami but his views about everything are fucking depressive. Not the best example of loving for sure. Patrician taste, anon.

[Anonymous No.12132816]

>>12132743
>>12132750
>>12132754
>>12132764
>>12132767
>>12132775
>>12132786
>>12132788
>>12132811
you guys all seem like low t faggots. There is not a doubt in my mind I could best all of you in a physical altercation.

[Anonymous No.12132822]

>>12132816
Based brawl poster

[Anonymous No.12132842]

>>12132743
the new testament

[Anonymous No.12132845]

>>12132816
My bench is 300lb, I’m handsome as fuck and I’ve read all of Plato. Come at me you fucking faggot

[Anonymous No.12132848]

In Search of Lost Time is the ultimate book for this question.

[Anonymous No.12132852]

>>12132845
I love when gym kiddies think that their bench press translates into fighting prowess

[Anonymous No.12132855]

the sailor who fell from grace with the sea

[Anonymous No.12132859]

>>12132845
how big is your cock?
>plato
lol nevermind thanks for confirming that you're a bitch.

[Anonymous No.12132860]

>>12132816
Your reply is actually wrong, anon. And I must reply saying that while I do have high t, so does your mom, in fact, she has my hair on her gum

[Anonymous No.12132862]

Shogun by James Clavell, the whole book is basically wish fulfillment for the white piggu who becomes a samurai and gets a qt japanese waifu

[Anonymous No.12132879]

>>12132859
>intimidated by Plato
Why don’t you give up your false sense of superiority anon? You’ll be happier for it

[Anonymous No.12132889]

>>12132879
yeah you're definitely a bitch tho

[Anonymous No.12132894]

>>12132852
If his bench is 300 lbs he could beat you up bro

[Anonymous No.12132898]

>>12132860
not that guy but you type like a soft cunt, chief

[Anonymous No.12132902]

>>12132894
I doubt that.

[Anonymous No.12132904]

>>12132898
That's the joke, you retard

[Anonymous No.12132912]

>>12132889
Lmao I would most definitely rock your shit and have literally gotten 10x as much pussy as you if you’ve even had any. Have fun larping on lit though. If you took Plato seriously you might actually be somewhere in life.

[Anonymous No.12132924]

>>12132904
I think you are the joke, chief.

[Anonymous No.12132926]

>>12132912
I seriously doubt that, bitch.

[Anonymous No.12132930]

>>12132924
That's the point, you fucking retard.

[Anonymous No.12132933]

>>12132743
Another juice peddling creature thread huh

[Anonymous No.12132965]

>>12132852
I love it when dyel niggers try to justify their weakness with”b-but he dudent eben know how do fight bro”

[Anonymous No.12133097]

>>12132912
I'm having sex right now in between 305lb bench sets and I've never even heard of fucking 'Plato'. What is that, some kind of talk show trash novel?

[Anonymous No.12133118]

>>12133097
Damn, respect. Please don’t fuck my gf bro

[Anonymous No.12133152]

>>12132845
300lb bench for a single is nothing special. Anyone with half decent genetics can achieve that in 2-3 years of training,

[Anonymous No.12133154]

>>12132912
>If you took Plato seriously you might actually be somewhere in life.
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[Anonymous No.12133171]

>>12132912
Plato was celibate.

[Anonymous No.12133214]

>>12133152
>implying it’s not my 3x5
>>12133154
>this long meaningless shitpost that cost valuable time that could have been spent studying the dialogues >>12133171
>(You)

[Anonymous No.12133239]

Rilke's poetry obliterated me when a girl I fell in love with introduced me to it.

There's been a lot of great love poetry for centuries. But frankly, I don't have a lot of patience for books that simply wallow in one feeling for too long, so that's why the distillation of a feeling into song appeals to me more for romance.

Splitting the difference, I might recommend Karel Macha's May which is quite romantic when it isn't about death.

I don't know what makes love more "masculine" except feeling doomed self-loathing.

[Anonymous No.12133243]

>>12132822
Why did this make me laugh

[Anonymous No.12133264]

>>12132743
Why do cute asian girls make me want to have rapid, sloppy breast sex? I don't even like breasts in general.

[Anonymous No.12133285]

>>12132743
Not a book, but I found 500 Days of Summer to be a really nice casual romantic film that feels like it was made for men, as was Eternal Sunshine.

[Anonymous No.12133340]

>>12133285
>Not a book
Then shut the fuck up, brainlet.

[Anonymous No.12133353]

Men read visual novels because male sexuality is highly visual in comparison with women. Katawa Shoujo is good.

[Anonymous No.12133360]

>>12133353
>Katawa Shoujo is good.
No one will ever love you.

[Anonymous No.12133386]

What you're looking for are visual novels, OP.
>>12133353
>Katawa Shoujo is good.
It's mediocre at best, compared to Japanese VNs. It's only good when compared against other EVNs.

[Anonymous No.12133652]

I mean...romance stories for men are basically porn where the people fucking live happily ever after.

Men don’t like relationship drama and emotional turmoil like women do.

[Anonymous No.12133671]

>>12132743

[Anonymous No.12133699]

I enjoyed every book i read by Yoshio Osaki when I was in middle school precisely because his stories felt like it was written with solely male audiences in mind. To the best of my memory all the protagonists in his books were men and their love interests were like moe characters but with a sufficient amount of depth and sufficiently well written. The stories were all melancholic too albiet they were a bit melodramatic but I enjoyed that aspect of it too. Kinda felt romantic. And his prose is very explicit in the sex scenes so yeah insanely fun read if youre a guy.

Unfortunately i dont think there are any english translations of his books but look up pilot fish, adiantum blue, and quatre septembre

[Anonymous No.12133720]

>>12133360
This one girl pretended to for a few months- but you're probably right.
>>12133386
The only one I've played that was better than KS was Saya no Uta, but that's a horror VN and I couldn't fap to the somewhat shoehorned in sex scenes. Clannad was pretentiously long and I didn't finish it, and the only other ones I've played were a few nukiges.

I only played the Emi, Hanako and Rin routes, and the other half of the routes could be bad. Idk. Emi was a nice slutty girl for fun times. Hanako was surprisingly shallow and disappointing, since I found her to be the most attractive and mysterious, and Rin was an absolute emotional rollercoaster and my favorite of the girls, and of the routes, construction-wise.

Lily and the blue haired girl both seemed uninteresting. I don't know. What are these great VNs I'm supposedly missing out on?

[Anonymous No.12133743]

>>12133720
>Clannad was pretentiously long and I didn't finish it
You should watch the anime instead then (the KyoAni series). Its adaptation of the latter part of the VN, After Story, is actually better than the VN. And coincidentally that's the best part of the story, which you missed by dropping it. If I ever recommend Clannad to someone I always tell them to watch the anime instead because of the structural issues with the game, which cause most people will drop it before they get to part of it that makes it so great.
>What are these great VNs I'm supposedly missing out on?
Little Busters, Rewrite, Muv-Luv Alternative, Subahibi, Dies Irae, Planetarian, Ef. One that recently got translated that I thought was great is Island. Anyway, here's the list of VNs on VNDB organized by voter ranking, from best to worst
https://vndb.org/v/all?q=;fil=tagspoil-0;rfil=;o=d;s=rating
Not everything there is translated obviously, but plenty of them are.

[Anonymous No.12133758]

>>12132743
>Queer by William S. Burroughs
Not even gay but this book totally explained my male feelings for me in high school, as well as the emptiness of hookup culture
>Rabbit Run by John Updike
Beautiful prose. Not the happiest story, but very manlyish I guess
>Araby by James Joyce
A short story from Dubliners that everyone on here has already memed
Didn't mean to make a meme list but I guess it just came out that way. Honestly would love for better suggestions. My perception of romance is pretty fucked

[Anonymous No.12133761]

>>12133743
I always saw people recommending After Story on it's own, but that didn't seem right to me to not at least watch Clannad first.
Anyway, I haven't watched an anime series or played through a VN in over a year and I don't have the desire for it, but I recognize those names, so you've made your point. I forgot about the other Key novels.

[Anonymous No.12133765]

>>12133743
>>12133761
Oh, if I sound grouchy or mean it's unintentional by the way. Kinda tired. I should mention that I appreciate you putting effort into your reply because a lot of people don't.

[Anonymous No.12133767]

>>12132743
Forbidden color - mishima

[Anonymous No.12133768]

>>12133758
Rabbit Run is an amazing novel but his relationship with his wife is more about love and responsibility and stability against the world. It’s an adult idea.

If you keep reading the series it gets pretty dark though. I wouldn’t recommend it despite how good Updike is.

[Anonymous No.12133772]

>>12132811
>murakami
>patrician taste
what the hell happened to this place? for real? did r*ddit invade?

[Anonymous No.12133776]

>>12133761
Yeah if you watch it you should watch both seasons of the show. Whoever said not to watch the first season is an idiot as it sets up lots of aspects of the story that are important in season 2, to the point that you wouldn't be able to understand a lot of things near the end at all. The first season isn't bad or anything, but it isn't a masterpiece like the second becomes later on.

[Anonymous No.12133828]

It's called porn, aka erotica. Men don't know the feeling of love, their "love" is just thinly veiled lust. Once a woman ages, a man no longer "loves" his gf/wife, funny how that works, huh?

[Anonymous No.12133834]

>>12133828
if it were true men would not love their mothers

[Anonymous No.12133843]

>>12133834
Look at the most read stories category on Literotica and similar erotica/porn sites, the most popular category is Mother x Son. So nice try, man pig.

[Anonymous No.12133853]

>>12132743
bobsbobsbobsbobs gimme gimme bobs for suck nownow boob suck

[Anonymous No.12133862]

madame bovary

[Anonymous No.12133935]

>>12133743
Are you kidding me?! Clannad VN is much better than the anime because the routes go much deeper (and the emotional intensity is much greater, especially because of the strength of the symbolism). Though maybe you're right about After Story though I haven't arrived there yet..
And yes all Key Works are amazing. Two other works I personally recommend are: Wonderful Everyday, May Sky, True Remembrance, and Symphonic Rain

[Anonymous No.12133945]

>>12133743
>Dies Irae
Opinion discarded.

[Anonymous No.12133956]

>>12133828
Older women are more lovely.

[Anonymous No.12134002]

>>12133935
>Are you kidding me?!
No. I've watched the anime four times and spent over 200 hours in the VN. It's my honest opinion.
>Clannad VN is much better than the anime because the routes go much deeper (and the emotional intensity is much greater, especially because of the strength of the symbolism).
I agree that the VN is better, but only until After Story.
>Though maybe you're right about After Story though I haven't arrived there yet..
Then don't criticize too much until after you've watched the entire thing. The quality of the show drastically improves the further you get into Season 2. To rattle off some of the things that are better in the show (I'll use spoilers):
Tomoya simply having a design and a voice actor improves After Story considerably, since the primary focus is his own character development. The show also adds subtle details like lines under his eyes and facial weariness, reflecting the years of depression, alcoholism, and trying to work himself to death.
All of the emotional scenes makes full use of the new medium, for example the montage of Tomoya growing up when he talks to his grandmother about his father; all of the scenes are timed with the soundtrack perfectly to maximize the emotional effect.
The original scenes, which are few, are very good; e.g. Ushio being drawn to the hospital, or Tomoya singing Ushio to sleep with the Dango Song (which doesn't even exist as a full song in the game).
The show fixes Nagisa's death scene. In the game they just decide for her to give birth at home and never call an ambulance even though it's clear the delivery is going poorly. In the show they decide to go to a hospital but get snowed in and she goes into labor early. The addition of snow in this scene also fits with the supernatural nature of her illness which grows worse in winter when the trees die, mirroring Ushio's death in the snow. The VN portrayal of her death is bizarre in this regard.
The show fixes the pacing of the ending to deliver maximum emotional impact. In the game you're sent back to the title after Ushio dies, then you have to collect any light orbs you have left, and then you get to get the true ending; whereas in the show the true ending occurs directly after Ushio dies so you are able to get catharsis at the correct time.
The show fixes Tomoya's character development. In the VN Nagisa only survives in an alternate universe and she stays dead in the other. In the show Tomoya is basically sent back through time to the point where she died, but this time she survives, and he keeps all of his memories of everything that happened. This allows him to keep all of his character development from After Story rather than losing it like in the VN.
I could go on but I've already typed a lot.

[Anonymous No.12134080]

>>12134002
I spent a whole year reading it (because I read one day of the VN every RL day.) And it was an incredible experience; however, my absorption was so intense that I ended up sort of confusing the Clannad fantasy with my reality, and in some ways changed my world forever [for the worse] (though I won't describe it here).
>I'll use spoilers):
I won't read the spoilers, but I'd just like to say that my favorite route is Kotomi Ichinose's route which I believe is the /lit/est (because you know of the Young's reference, and she has the best character development, and even if the story is not exactly uber-complex, it's the darkest and most beautiful)

[Anonymous No.12134089]

>>12134080
>was so intense that I ended up sort of confusing the Clannad fantasy with my reality
You faggots are so fucking cringy holy shit.

[Anonymous No.12134105]

>>12134080
>I won't read the spoilers
The only thing I spoiled where some differences between the show and the game. If you've read the game then it's not like it's going to ruin anything for you. It's a faithful adaptation; a few things just happen in a different manner.
>Kotomi's route
This is my favorite route too and I've read it several times. It was written by the same person that wrote Planetarian, which is the reason for the science fiction aspects I think. One of the most interesting parts of the route is the light orb that floats down from the sky and causes Tomoya to regain his past memories. The game doesn't give any explanation of course, but my personal theory is that it was sent by Kotomi's parents, similar to Shima sending a light orb to Misae from the afterlife. Anyway, the game and show had a strong effect on me as well (mostly positive but some negative). You aren't the only one.

[Anonymous No.12134124]

>>12134089
Fuck off this is a Clannad thread now.

[Anonymous No.12134128]

>>12132743
@elseyg if anyone was wondering about her instagram

[Anonymous No.12134135]

>>12134124
Just know that you are pathetic and your waifu will never be real. You will die alone with terrible taste. Faggot.

[Anonymous No.12134139]

>>12134002
>>12134080
>>12134105
give me the straight-up redpill lads, should I read Clannad?

[Anonymous No.12134145]

>>12134139
You should watch the anime series (not the movie) and then read the VN if you liked the anime.

[Anonymous No.12134150]

>>12133743
Clannad's literal retard female cast is impossible to take seriously

[Anonymous No.12134174]

>>12134150
It's ultimately about Tomoya, though, not the girls.

[Anonymous No.12134178]

>>12134128
I am glad to find my hypothesis that she is not Korean true. I have been in Korea for a long time and nobody, NOBODY has that large kind of boobs.

[Anonymous No.12134186]

The Rabbit books are a little on the heavy side and you'll get allot of life with your romance.

I'd recommend Updike's Marry Me. The first chapter really sells it so maybe just give that a shot. it's like 10 pages long.

[Anonymous No.12134187]

>>12134174
That doesn't really excuse it, Nagisa is supposed to be a major character and has a significant amount of screen time.

[Anonymous No.12134194]

>>12134187
Maybe you misunderstood her character? Nagisa is supposed to represent the ideal citizen that always works hard and does their best as part of the collective (family/society/etc), even if they can't do very much ultimately. That's why she wants to restart the theater club, so that she can work hard in a group. That's why starting a family with Tomoya is important to her, so that they can work hard together as a group. It's through her as well as his other relations that Tomoya is able to understand what a family is, to accept his own family, and to become part of the societal family.

[Anonymous No.12134215]

>>12134105
Oh that's very interesting, I didn't know it was from the same person that wrote planetarian.
>but my personal theory is that it was sent by Kotomi's parents, similar to Shima sending a light orb to Misae from the afterlife.
Well I haven't been reading much lately, but that's pretty much where I am at, and I see how that could be. In relation to that, I've always felt that the extra dimensions are related to how the visual novel branches out, though it doesn't stand up to scrutiny because Calabi-Yau Manifolds are compactified... Maybe the routes could indeed be connected like you said, I wonder if there's some consistency in the orbs, like some science to the magic..
>Anyway, the game and show had a strong effect on me as well (mostly positive but some negative). You aren't the only one.
Ah well!! I didn't even know that I could find someone else who had read the Clannad series as I did, and you even think that Kotomi's route is the best like I do!! All of this feels like such a great coincidence, but I really can't tell


>>12134139
>>12134145
You should definitely read it, and definitely the VN before the anime, maybe if you want you can leave the Afterstory of the VN for last (and watch the anime instead). But the anime will spoil you a lot, from the small bits I watched, I can gather that it's mostly a summary of the VN, it feels way too packed together into a messy comic sappy version of the original.

The music is intoxicating and melancholic, the contents are quite insightful, the atmosphere is pretty magical, there are comfy parts that make you feel very cozy, boring parts that make you feel equally detached as the protagonist and emotionally intense parts that leave you crying and depressed until you arrive at (I suppose most of) the third acts so I would recommend you to avoid leaving them hanging or they'll break you.

[Anonymous No.12134225]

Gottfried von Strassburgs Tristan

[Anonymous No.12134244]

>>12134215
>You should definitely read it, and definitely the VN before the anime
You know, most people just drop the VN because of how long and convoluted it is and they never even get close to unlocking After Story. If you look at the achievement statistics on Steam, only 6.5% of owners have the achievement for the true ending. I really recommend not telling people to play the game first. It's such a humongous time investment and basically impossible without a walkthrough. If they watch the anime they'll get to After Story in a reasonable amount of time and be able to decide if they want to make the investment in the VN. Also go watch the rest of the anime. You're really missing out on something special.

[Anonymous No.12134263]

>>12134244
>humongous time investment
Well if you see life like that. I personally would recommend you all to stop thinking of life in terms of *achievements completed*. If you could spend your whole life reading just one single book, if that book was immensely beautiful, there would be no need for more. It's the process that matters, the becoming, the journey, the activity not the object, the being, the outcome, the status, the goal. Just take it slowly, read every day one day of the VN, don't make yourself big expectations about what you can complete in one day, just savour your reading as much as you can. If you feel acutely delighted then you are homing in on the intrinsic values that actually matter.

>Also go watch the rest of the anime. You're really missing out on something special
Yes probably, but I'll finish the VN first
I honestly disliked what I watched after Fuko's arc.

[Anonymous No.12134287]

>>12134263
I'm not thinking in terms of "achieving things." On Steam you get an "achievement" if you finish various parts of the game. You get one when you finish the true ending. If only 6.5% of people have that achievement, it means that only 6.5% of the people that bought the game actually finished it. 93.5% of people dropped it. I agree with what you're saying about reading, but the fact is that the vast majority of people don't finish the game, and I think it's fairly clear why that is. Even compared to other visual novels it's very long and the way you unlock some of the light orbs and the true ending is overly complex.

[Anonymous No.12134288]

>>12132848
This

[Anonymous No.12134298]

>>12133828
That's not true anon

[Anonymous No.12134305]

>>12132743
Audreay Niffenegger: "The Time Traveller's Wife"
Taichi Yamada: "I haven't dreamed of flying for a while"
"Gabriel Garcia Marquez": "Memories of my melancholic whores"
Yasuari Kawabata: "The house of the sleeping beauties"

[Anonymous No.12134319]

>>12134287
Well I understand that, but I still connected it to the concept of "achievements". But I'm arguing in part that there might be no need to finish the game since it's arleady very good without one having to read the afterstory, though you're the one who has completed it so you might have some reason to think that.

And you know, I've been surprised a few times while going through the walkthroughs, I've realized that I've completely missed some paths that I didn't take. (I tend to save the game at every forking path but even then...)

[Anonymous No.12134359]

>ctrl+f
>no iliad

This board is fucking garbage, literally the only real romance. Don Quixote is romantic but its with his waifu not a real fucking gross ass 3D woman.

The Iliad really shows the love of so many characters in brilliant emotion. Real romance isn't sexual so don't tell fucking stupid women that.
>>12132842
I was thinking this, but I wouldn't call it romantic. it is all very sad love

Shit thread overrun with weeb faggots

[Anonymous No.12134361]

>>12132743
Gabo's best.

[Anonymous No.12134427]

>>12134128
It's actually @juasicko

[Anonymous No.12134454]

>>12132743
I think the mens adventure novels would be the equivalent of romance novels for men

[Anonymous No.12134456]

>>12134150
>literal retard female cast is impossible to take seriously
This. Watch the KyoAni version of Kanon instead. It's like Clannad except good.

[Anonymous No.12134521]

>>12134456
>The girls in Kanon aren't retarded
Uh..

[Anonymous No.12134551]

The middle part of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Keat's Lamia is also good.

[Anonymous No.12134556]

The House in Fata Morgana. The best romance VN.

[Anonymous No.12134602]

>>12133652
We like love triangle drama like White Album and incest drama like Yosuga no Sora tho

[Anonymous No.12134603]

Japanese "light novels" are like Twilight for boys

[Anonymous No.12134615]

>>12132743
Just go to Amazon and search for "monster girls"

[Anonymous No.12134637]

>>12132743
http://www.france.jp/c/new_books.html

[Anonymous No.12134763]

>>12134637
now that's a weird domain

[Anonymous No.12134778]

>>12132767
Men do love. But it's the real deal, not some obsession with the romanticized fiction of love.

[Anonymous No.12135155]

>>12134556
This one and Umineko are the best VNs and you can disgard the rest

[Anonymous No.12135178]

>>12132743
almost all of them?

[Anonymous No.12135190]

>>12132750
Good choice.

[Anonymous No.12135634]

>>12134521
Mai isn't retarded at least.

>>12134456
Agreed. Kanon > Clannad

[Anonymous No.12135706]

Do men even have feelings? I've never met a man that had a shred of empathy, even when they are "depressed" it's all about ohhhh no I will never have this 10/10 asian stacy suck my penis or waaaaaah women find men who are taller more attractive, do they care about love or friendship or anything deeper than sex and social status. I've never seen proof of a man actually being able to feel love. It's always about ownership, status, and how they want to have multiple women at once.

To be honest, I've kind of given up on male friendships because it seems like most of the time they want to be friends with me to get into my pants. I've literally had men DEMAND I give them a chance even when in relationships. It's like a horrid pattern of, a guy will "be friends" with you, but then when they learn you aren't interested in dating them, they bail. Men are just not worthy of female friendships.

[Anonymous No.12135721]

>>12135706
Dumb cc crossposter.

[Anonymous No.12135753]

>>12135706
gb2tumblr

[Anonymous No.12135760]

>>12135706
Imagine being this unaware. I honestly envy your ignorance

[Anonymous No.12135825]

>>12132743
Unironically try manga love stories. Be warned you will get the feels and then realize you are alone and have no gf.

[Anonymous No.12135851]

>>12133264
I just want to have a lot of sex in general. Sex is pretty great.

[Anonymous No.12135868]

>>12135706
What's your discord? I'm good-looking.

[Anonymous No.12135871]

>>12135706
As a male i approve
Friendship i just mutual explotation anyways and serve only the impotents.

[Anonymous No.12135879]

>>12135706
Women and men aren't supposed to be friends. We can be friendly but we can't be friends.

[Anonymous No.12135891]

>>12132743
The City and the Pillar
>Gore Vidal
Def gives a very male perspective on love

[Anonymous No.12135901]

>>12134615
based and redpilled

[Anonymous No.12135907]

>>12135706
Aristotle defined friendship very well.
Friends need to be loving, benevolent, inseperable and first and foremost MALE.

[Anonymous No.12135939]

>>12132743
Any book with gay romance is good. Any book with straight romance is bad.

[Anonymous No.12136029]

>>12135939
Give me some recs anon

[Anonymous No.12136061]

>>12132743
Fucking read Turgenev. Great love novels, and they're short, too. First Love and Torrents of Spring are good. Even Fathers and Sons has a good romantic element to it. Sportsman's Sketches doesn't have it (at least not very often). But First Love is a great one, probably one of my favorite stories. I haven't read more than that, but Turgenev is a great author so far. He writes from a very tender perspective, as a male.

[Anonymous No.12136110]

>>12135891
>>12135939
>>12136029
The City and the Pillar

[Anonymous No.12136134]

>>12132902
dont let him grapple you though, it'll be GG

[Anonymous No.12136138]

>>12135706
> Men are just not worthy of female friendships.

Oh my fucking sides

[Anonymous No.12136221]

>>12135706
>Do men even have feelings?
The problem is being emotional and weak is the most unattractive thing a man can do. So it rather hard to be a friend and lover at the same time. So if a man is attracted to you he probably won't show you his emotional side until you are somewhat deep in a relationship.

>I've kind of given up on male friendships because it seems like most of the time they want to be friends with me to get into my pants.
Become friends with guys who are in relationships if you want to make sure. But the problem is that if a man finds a woman who genuinely shares his interests then it like finding a unicorn and many guys would do a lot to get in a relationship with such a woman, including ruining a friendship.

[Anonymous No.12136320]

>>12135706
>most of the time
Protip: The ones who don't try to get in your pants are actually gay or too cucked to try. 100% of (hetero) male-female friendships is based on the man wanting to fuck the woman. 100%. Any man who says otherwise is just saying that to sleep with you.

[Anonymous No.12136428]

>>12133097
I think he’s talking about Mickey’s dog

[Anonymous No.12136499]

>>12135706
Plz be my gf.

[Anonymous No.12136549]

>>12132767
Our love might not always be romantic, but it is the kind of love that can withstand truth.

[Anonymous No.12136945]

>>12135706
a better question is, do women feel love? every women that i have seen been in a relationship has always had thoughts of leaving or cheated on their significant other and/or had a really hard time TRYING to stay faithful.
Now every man i have seen that has been in a relationship has told me about how all the things they want to do with their significant other and work their asses off just to try to get them something nice and are genuine when they say they want to spend the rest of their lives with them.
Why is it that when women say they want to spend the rest of their lives with a man they really mean for the next 2-3 years?

[Anonymous No.12137200]

>>12136945
I'm no better biologist than any other anon, but here is some bullshit anyhow: if you havent put a baby in her belly after three years, the biological clock has run out, feeling machin broke, her body is sending her no more hormones to be faithful since there's no bebbey. and where there is no bebbey, there is no father.

[Anonymous No.12137205]

>>12132767
Men invented love.

[Anonymous No.12137214]

>>12136945
>>12137200
Here's the realistic take: men have it harder to find a replacement, while a woman doesn't need to try. Given equal opportunity of finding "someone better" both sexes breakup/cheat the same.

[Anonymous No.12137215]

>>12133772
You may be thinking about another website, this is 4channel, sweatie.

[Anonymous No.12137250]

>>12134602
yes, because it involves more than one woman wanting us. and as connie francis once sang, everyone wants to be wanted.

[Anonymous No.12137291]

>>12132743
anything romantic written before Bronte or Austen

[Anonymous No.12137352]

>>12132750
sick fuck

[Anonymous No.12137365]

>>12137352
She wasn't even a virgin. They were regular fucks with a willing female. Having sex with an ageing grown up babe you don't love, well, THAT was sick.

[Anonymous No.12137425]

>>12133828
Well, of course. What do women offer for love other than their fleeting appearance?

[Anonymous No.12137531]

>>12135706
Men find women boring. Women find men juvenile. There's the odd occasion where a cross sex friendship works out but it's the exception. When women are friends with men they find some ideas they bring to the table interesting, but don't want to fuck them. When men are friends with women they want to fuck them, but aren't powerful enough to make it happen.

[Anonymous No.12137587]

>>12137531
That's sad, stop trying to find logic in the whole "men vs women" meme most of those are made by sad individuals. Everyone is different that's the best and worse thing about all of us.
Find someone who makes you happy, its that simple.

[Anonymous No.12137631]

>>12134359
what? iliad's about achilles' angerboner screwing his own side over leading to him committing an atrocity against Hector's corpse

[Anonymous No.12137635]

>>12136945

[Anonymous No.12137672]

>>12137587
>>>/reddit/

[Anonymous No.12138355]

>>12137425
Companionship, loyalty, and love. inb4
>hurr woman whores
The divorce rate is extremely high. It's almost always instigated by women. Want to know why? Infidelity committed by the man. Men don't know loyalty or love. They only think with their cocks.
>>12134298
Prove me wrong.

[Anonymous No.12138361]

>>12138355
You are wrong anon. Women will stay with the cheat husband if he is rich enough.

[Anonymous No.12138371]

>>12138361
Yeah, a woman wouldn't divorce a rich man who cheated on her, not like she wouldn't get 50% of his shit, right? No, a woman would definitely stay with a man who cheated and spat on her honor. Because he's rich...because she totally wouldn't get 50% of his assets for divorcing...retard.

[Anonymous No.12138372]

>>12132764
This

[Anonymous No.12138376]

>>12133768
John Updike hated women if you couldn't tell

[Anonymous No.12138620]

>>12132743
I've decided to stop saying negative things online but this ugly bitch made it into one of my dreams last night so I gotta say fuck you and your shovel-headed mongo bitch.

[Anonymous No.12138625]

>>12138620
Do you suffer a mental illness?

[Anonymous No.12138968]

>>12132775
you wot m8?

[Anonymous No.12139250]

>>12132743
Georges Battaille - Story of the Eye

[Anonymous No.12139259]

James Salter - A Sport and a Pastime

[Anonymous No.12139313]

>>12138620
You feel it too, didn't you?

[Anonymous No.12139441]

>>12139250
Or better yet: Bataille, My Mother

[Anonymous No.12139448]

>>12139250
wew lad

[Anonymous No.12139556]

>>12132743
120 days of sodom

[Anonymous No.12139561]

>>12139556
haha

[Anonymous No.12139563]

>>12132743
I want to cum in that chink face

[Anonymous No.12139832]

[Anonymous No.12139937]

The Late Mattia Pascal.

[Anonymous No.12139965]

>>12132767
brainlet or emotional husk, you decide

[Anonymous No.12140047]

120 Days of Sodom

[Anonymous No.12140114]

Mishima's Spring Snow
Castelo Branco's Love of Perdition
Marturin's Melmoth (unironically)

>>12139965
I'll go with brainlet. So sick of gender stereotypes like >>12133652 >>12133828


>>12133239
Curiously enough for a dude who was incapable of loving living things but in through deepest recesses of his imagination.

[Anonymous No.12140168]

>>12135706
I feel almost exactly the same about women. I think we are both naive.

[Anonymous No.12140718]

Walden
First Summer in the Sierra
Desert Solitaire

[Anonymous No.12141131]

>>12132750
>Lolita

bruh

>>12132743
>women

he dunt say book about grills

[Anonymous No.12141207]

The Sun Also Rises

[Anonymous No.12141265]

>>12132912
10 times 0 is 0 you inbred fuck

[Anonymous No.12141560]

>>12140718
>Walden
I read it a long ass time ago. Was there romance?
i honestly cant recall

[Anonymous No.12141591]

>>12132743
my immortal

[Anonymous No.12141598]

>>12135706
This is good bait, but regardless it sounds like you're painting all men with the same shit-covered brush because you're the hot steaming turd that happens to be holding it. If you're a shitty person the the flies will inevitably be drawn to you

[Anonymous No.12141974]

>>12132743
Just read about people fucking and jack off furiously

[Anonymous No.12142271]

>>12134139
Toradora is better

[Anonymous No.12143000]

>>12135706

This dude is right, you know.