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Any book recommendations? A story that is not typical or I've read 100 times. Something that involves two lovers but it's deeper than that. One might have cancer or psychological issues. Or the story is just messed up. Something different please.

>> No.4828733

>>4828708
>One might have cancer or psychological issues

Oh, lord. If you're looking for something with romance, try "Spring in Fialta" by Nabokov. It's tasteful and quite beautiful. But are you seriously positing romances with psychological issues and cancer ploys haven't become convention in the past decade or so?

>> No.4828746

Ever read The Count of Monte Cristo?

>> No.4828780

watch amour

>> No.4831062

bump

>> No.4831091
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4831091

This is an incredible romance story. Feel free to disregard David Lynch's "wild at heart " treatment. It's one of the most romantic books I've read, Sailor Ripley and Lula are an incredible pair that deal with some rough edges in their life with style and principle. So much more than that movie, which I now see as indulgent and silly and very disrespectful to the author.

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4831117

There is no better love story.

Lolita comes close.

>> No.4831460

>>4828780

I second this

>> No.4831481

There's a section exactly for this on the wiki.

http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading/Genre_fiction#Romance

Love in The Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
The Maias by Eca de Queiros
Jamilia by Chingiz Aitmatov
Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin
Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu
Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
Daphnis and Chloe by Longus
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Nadja by Andre Breton
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bedier
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Camille by Alexander Dumas
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
The Bachelor of Arts by R. K. Narayan
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang

>> No.4831550

>>4831117
Ada is a much better love story than Lolita.

>> No.4831580

>>4831550
Oh hell yes.