Romance

[Anonymous No.19446920]

What are some /lit/ approved romance novels?

[Anonymous No.19447008]

>>19446920
ada

[Anonymous No.19447025]

>>19446920
Lolita

[Anonymous No.19447027]

jane eyre

[Anonymous No.19447039]

>>19446920
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Emma
Wuthering Heights
Madame Bovary
Normal People

[Anonymous No.19447044]

>>19446920
Any of Charles Tinglés English language works, personally dionsaur anal, but sentient object no-sex is also good.

[Anonymous No.19447088]

>>19446920
Any books that will explain why I keep falling in love with mentally ill girls?

[Anonymous No.19447095]

>>19446920
Anna karenina

[Anonymous No.19447121]

>>19446920
>WHAT IS THAT??? A YOUNG WOMAN WEARING A COSTUME??? OH NOOOOOOOOO AAAAAAAAARGH I'M GOING INSANE JESUSMAN SAVE ME

[Anonymous No.19447126]

>>19447121
>WOMAN
nice1 punchy

[Anonymous No.19447148]

>>19446920
Three comrades

[Anonymous No.19447275]

>>19447088
If you are like me: below ground levels of self-esteem, lack of confidence, etc. It leads you toward mentally ill artsy types who look fragile because you think you can fix them and they'll be loyal to you just like ideal women are to men better than you, but they are not actually mentally ill just psychopaths, and behind the façade of "oh my God I have so many problems, I aM So BrOKEn" they are actually oversocialized as fuck and have fucked 100s of people and then your feelings for her turns into disgust and then you have an argument and it turns out they were dating and fucking other people through the first 6 months of dating with you and may have cheated later as well?

[Anonymous No.19447297]

>>19447025
>>19447008
>>19447039
>>19447044
>>19447095
>>19447148
Thank you, anons. I'm searching them up.

[Anonymous No.19447595]

>>19447039
>Normal People
Very sneaky putting that at the end, but I like it.

[KILL YOURSELF MONKEY No.19447619]

Stupid fucking brazil monkey detected

[Anonymous No.19447620]

>>19446920
Can you stalkers leave her alone already?

[Anonymous No.19447670]

>>19447275
As a guy who's first and only girlfriend was "mentally ill", this is pretty accurate

[Anonymous No.19447677]

Three comrades by Remarque
Salammbô
Madame Bovary
Sentimental Education
The Charterhouse of Parma
Tristan and Iseult
Aucassin and Nicolette
Women in Love
everything Austen
La Princesse de Clèves
Paul and Virginie
Paulina 1880
Fire of Winter
Prisoner of My Desire
Kathleen Woodiwiss
Catherine Coulter
Devil's Embrace
Nora Roberts early stuff
Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee

[Anonymous No.19447694]

>>19446920
please tell me that's a man

[Anonymous No.19447699]

>>19446920
Whatever by houellebecq

[Anonymous No.19448035]

>>19447677
>Paulina 1880
based

[Anonymous No.19448328]

>>19446920
Beautiful and Damned by Scott Fitzgerald. You'll love it.

[Anonymous No.19448430]

>>19447275
you seem pretty self aware. that's the first step to avoiding sluts like those. buy yourself a pull up bar this christmas.

[Anonymous No.19448437]

>>19448430
>buy yourself a pull up bar this christmas.
Am I supposed to bludgeon myself a mate with it, caveman style?

[Anonymous No.19448591]

>>19446920
Loved this one

[Anonymous No.19448594]

are there any romance books that can fill the void left by romance anime and manga? books that idealize emotional connection over lust and sex. Anime has rotten my brain and the western idea of romance just doesn't do it anymore

[Anonymous No.19448658]

>>19446920
This book has a sex scene in it. There's also spaceships and dinosaurs, and humanoid lizards with biotechnology and a big battle at the end. It's fucking awesome.

[Anonymous No.19448930]

>>19447275
>>19447088
>>19447670
>>19448430

The more I try to meet and get to know women beyond superficial first impressions, the less I actually like them as people. I wouldn't say I hate them though. At worst I fins them annoying, and at best I just don't find them interesting.
My interest in them really just comes from my overwhelming and immutable desire to fuck them and has nothing to do with their "personalities".
I would just settle for causal sex, but I don't believe in cumming outside of reproduction.

[Anonymous No.19448940]

>>19448930
>causal
Make that "casual".

[Anonymous No.19448951]

>>19448930
same

[Anonymous No.19449079]

>>19448930
Every woman I talk to likes Harry Potter and Marvel movies, and doesn't want kids.
When did it become acceptable for women to have nothing to offer the world?

[Anonymous No.19449305]

>>19447699
I'm imagining it.

[Anonymous No.19449317]

>>19449079
>When did it become acceptable for women to have nothing to offer the world?
As opposed to men? No one has anything to offer except for their labour doing god knows what and the world doesn't need anything beyond that.

[Anonymous No.19449324]

>>19448930
this

[Anonymous No.19449331]

>>19449305
I couldn't help but notice the name of your file is, quote, "despair2". That seems to be indicative of deeper emotions than what your short sentence might suggest. Would you be kind to explain to the rest of the class the extent of your true feelings, Anon?

[Anonymous No.19449359]

>>19448930
I'm going to try church eventually. I know it's laughable but it's my only hope left to not date a slut.

[Anonymous No.19449363]

>>19447275
Why are you implying that someone who genuinely has bad self-esteem and lack of confidence even ends up in relationships? I have extremely low self-esteem myself and zero self-confidence, and this predictably makes me never talk to or associate with women at all, let alone getting into relationships with them.

I think you're mistaking narcissism for genuine mental health problems, frankly.

[Anonymous No.19449425]

>>19447619
How are you so sure?

[Anonymous No.19449443]

>>19449363
>someone who genuinely has bad self-esteem and lack of confidence even ends up in relationships?
I used to be attractive. You can have the personality of an anime protagonist and land a few gfs if you are attractive. It becomes "cute"

[Anonymous No.19449458]

>>19449443
Fair enough. I just wanted to point out that people who genuinely have mental problems usually die alone in poverty, they aren't quirky college students just having trouble fitting in.

[Anonymous No.19449463]

>>19449317
At least women could have maternal qualities and want children instead of """ careers""".
(Seriously, this isn't the 80s. Get over it)

[Anonymous No.19449469]

>>19449458
>I just wanted to point out that people who genuinely have mental problems usually die alone in poverty
Oh yeah this is happening to me too, it just happens later haha. The only difference is you get a taste of love in high school and college, as well as a taste of women's hysterics and cheating

[(͡ ̯ʖ) !!ZI2N5Bpxt4i No.19449470]

The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev

[Anonymous No.19449480]

>>19449331
Sorry to disappoint, but it's just the 2nd image in the "despair" series. I have one big folder for all my reaction images and all the picutres are named such that it's easy to CTRL+F them.

[Anonymous No.19449501]

>>19449480
What do you mean by this "reaction images" idea and how does that fit in your lack of intimate experience and close emotional bonds with the opposite sex, which after all, is bizarre in itself, considering the fact that 99% of humans experience it, and is thus a crucial part of the human experience?

[Anonymous No.19449504]

>>19449463
I can't blame women for "wanting" careers. In a culture where all forms of social relations except for those existing in the market are disintegrating, and only labour that takes place in market conditions is valourized, why would anyone sane aspire to be a housewife? Imagine being a young woman. Who can she rely on if not herself? Some self-centered dork like one of us? Her parents? The broader community?

[Anonymous No.19449513]

>>19449501

[Anonymous No.19449585]

>>19449513
You'll have to use words, anon

[Anonymous No.19449608]

>>19449513
THAT'S NOT PEPE THAT'S APU, HIS NAME IS APU APUSTAJA REEEEEEEEE

[Anonymous No.19449613]

>>19448594
Watch Tenchi Forever
Has the best interpretation of mature/adult love I have ever seen in the medium and will help you to break free from that idea of love you usually see in most anime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAwxQGPSnDg

[Anonymous No.19449647]

>>19446920
the most /lit/ romance is Sorrows of Young Werther

[Anonymous No.19449714]

>>19449585
A picture says a thousand words

[Anonymous No.19449734]

>>19449504
>>19449463
Incorrect takes on the subject, the incomes of individuals in the lower-middle class has flattened since the 70's, this means the only way to increased household incomes if for to be more income streams (i.e., women working).
I fully expect that child labor laws will be relaxed in the next 10 years as inflation rises and wages do not follow suit.

[Anonymous No.19449778]

>>19449734
That's also true. But then again lower class women always worked. We're talking about more affluent women for whom work is supposedly liberatory.

[Anonymous No.19449793]

>>19449778
The most affluent women are so few in number that they are hardly worth talking about, the middling class of women is required to work to keep a higher standard of living as wages remain too flat for middle class men to be the sole earner.

[Anonymous No.19449827]

I just want her new Twitter to follow like a ghost without anyone knowing

[Anonymous No.19449830]

>>19449793
>The most affluent women are so few in number
We're not talking about the very rich. We're talking about the middle to upper middle class. University graduates. Like I said, you're completely correct in pointing out that a growing number of households require a 2nd income to sustain their lifestyle. What we're talking about is the experience of younger women from middle to upper middle class backgrounds who could potentially get by with a single income, but choose to pursue careers because they understand (correctly) that they have no one to rely on but themselves.

[Anonymous No.19449868]

>>19449830
>We're talking about the middle to upper middle class.
And the point is that they cannot get by alone, their options are as follows:
1. Dual-income household
2. Try and marry a rich guy
3. Try to become rich
4. Take on debt to fund lifestyle

1 is much easier to achieve than 2 or 3, and at some point ex post facto reasoning can occur (read: COPE).

[Anonymous No.19449962]

>>19447275
>If you are like me: below ground levels of self-esteem, lack of confidence, etc. It leads you toward mentally ill artsy types who look fragile because you think you can fix them
fuck