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2542026 No.2542026 [Reply] [Original]

Can someone recommend a good romance novel that appeals to the male audience?

>> No.2542030

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby.

>> No.2542043

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

>> No.2542050

John Fowles' The Magus probably qualifies.

>> No.2542052

Lolita

>> No.2542055
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>>2542050

Good suggestion, friend. Picture (sort of) related, it's how I imagine Maurice Conchis.

>> No.2542059

>>2542055
Weird, same here. Somebody mentioned making The Magus into a movie once and I immediately thought of Kingsley as Conchis.

>> No.2542071

>>2542059

I like your mind, friend.

>> No.2542078

It's always bugged me that there's really no such thing as romance-centric novels for men. Romance may occur as a plot element but rarely is it the driving focus.

Yet romance genre novels, read exclusively by women due to their estrogen-laden escapism, represent a majority of all fiction published.

I wonder what explains the divide. I mean I get the old maxim about 'men watch porn, women read it' and that makes sense. But there's a deeper question of why no one's really been able to successfully make and market romance novels for dudes. Maybe dudes tend to be subconsciously jealous of male leads' success with women, rather than identifying with and projecting themselves onto them.

>> No.2542104

>>2542078
It's all in the targeting of the particular crowd. Romance novels don't get targeted to men, but visual novels on the other hand...

see
>>>/vg/3143545

>> No.2542113

>>2542071
> wants to fuck

>> No.2542120

>>2542104

I'm aware of the visual novel phenomenon, but that really only appeals to a certain tiny slice of otaku, already a tiny slice of the adolescent population.

But I guess it does serve as an example that it can be done.

>> No.2542129

honestly, I really enjoyed The Time Traveler's Wife, and PS, I love you.

yeah yeah, books to movies, whatever. They were still a good read, and it gave me an excuse to convince my wife to read Flowers for Algernon.