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Anonymous Mon Feb 9 23:46:58 2015 No.6122011 [Reply] [Original]

I am frequently put off by the constant depictions of romance and/or sex in the stories I read. What titles do you recommend that are totally void of anything to do with romantic love, and sex. Preferably the story would not involve women in any capacity - I don't have a problem with women, but I have a complete lack of interest in them and I am having a very hard time finding books that don't broach that subject.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 9 23:50:03 2015 No.6122024 it's ok to be a faggot anon.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 9 23:53:57 2015 No.6122037 >>6122024 I didn't say it wasn't.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 00:20:10 2015 No.6122106 20 000 leagues under the sea?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 00:23:44 2015 No.6122120 >main character gets laid >treats it like an everyday occurrence >you will never hold hands

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 00:25:45 2015 No.6122126 >>6122120 Right in the feels man, no rly, it feels awful and whenevwr I reach that part in a book I soon stop reading and feel depressed as fuck the entire day

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 00:26:10 2015 No.6122128 >>6122011 I don't drink, but I still will read novels in which the characters do, because otherwise I'd be massively limited my literary experience. You are too OP.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 00:28:40 2015 No.6122133 >>6122106 Thanks, I'll read it. Moby Dick was good in this regard too. I suppose it makes sense that stories about sea-faring voyages would have no women.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 00:31:53 2015 No.6122137 >>6122128 i think op's aversion is a little more understandable considering the total saturation of ideas of romance or sex in pretty much all areas of literature, and the importance with which they are depicted

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 00:32:01 2015 No.6122138 >>6122128 I am not saying I won't or don't read books that have romance. If I did I'd have very little to read at all. I am just looking for stories that don't have those things so I can have a bit of a break now and then.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 00:34:03 2015 No.6122145 billy budd is the book you seek 👽ayy

Anonymous Tue Feb 10 00:35:49 2015 No.6122154

>>6122137
I realize that, certainly no genre has been based off drinking.
But just because something contains slight romantic elements or mentions of sex doesn't mean it's to be avoided. Plenty of great novels would be missed out that way.

That being said, OP, avoid Hemingway like the plague, the one exception being Old Man and The Sea.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 01:34:38 2015 No.6122304 File: 37 KB, 500x599, 1336353357040.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6122120

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 01:37:25 2015 No.6122311 >>6122120 It's easy to get a gf Just be yourself anon. :)

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 01:39:49 2015 No.6122319 >>6122011 >I don't have a problem with women, but I have a complete lack of interest in them Shouldn't even be a concern. Water does not roll easy from the scorned back.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 01:52:44 2015 No.6122338 File: 87 KB, 285x285, 03405.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6122311

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 01:54:34 2015 No.6122343 The Hobbit Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest Quite a few classic SF novels are sexless and romanceless. Arthur C. Clarke was at his best when avoiding the subject, e.g. Rendezvous with Rama.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 01:56:31 2015 No.6122351 File: 21 KB, 473x315, 1416296798762.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6122120 >>6122311 Fuck.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 02:03:22 2015 No.6122369 >>6122011 Are you Asexual or Homo? Is manly man-love acceptable? How do you feel about passionless mechanistic sex as a depiction of alienation?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 02:10:35 2015 No.6122386 >>6122343 Based Arthur C Clarke Lots of good sci fi avoids romance and women's affairs in general.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 02:16:16 2015 No.6122402 Joseph Conrad doesn't have very much

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 02:18:04 2015 No.6122409 >>6122311 Ahahaha it's that simple

Anonymous Tue Feb 10 02:19:48 2015 No.6122416

>>6122011
>What titles do you recommend that are totally void of anything to do with romantic love, and sex. Preferably the story would not involve women in any capacity - I don't have a problem with women, but I have a complete lack of interest in them and I am having a very hard time finding books that don't broach that subject.

/lit/
/pol/

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 02:22:31 2015 No.6122425 >>6122416 This. But much like Ghost Busters, you should remember not to cross the streams.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 02:23:53 2015 No.6122428 File: 245 KB, 600x857, 1300907347003.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6122416 Sounds more /r9k/.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 02:25:17 2015 No.6122431 File: 57 KB, 781x808, 1349907411067.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6122311 i am always myself. i have never been someone else who wasnt me

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Anonymous Tue Feb 10 02:31:40 2015 No.6122455
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>>6122431
>tfw just because you can't remember a time you weren't you doesn't mean you have always been yourself

I have anxiety attacks sometimes about not being able to remember my own birth

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 02:33:51 2015 No.6122464 >>6122434 >implying there aren't erotic scenes in the castle and the trial

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 02:34:04 2015 No.6122465 >>6122369 That sounds interesting regardless. What is it?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 02:37:37 2015 No.6122475 >>6122434 The Trial was all sex and women

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 02:38:51 2015 No.6122478 Blood Meridian is pretty void of all women

Anonymous Tue Feb 10 02:41:50 2015 No.6122482

>>6122465
Well, it's when you write about people making fugg, but do it in a weird detatched manner that paints it as vulgar, banal and ultimately unsatisfying.

Can't think of any titles off the top of my head, partly because I'm near the end of a two day period sans sleep, but sex isn't universally depicted positively in literature.

To be honest, even as a heterosexual man with a healthy libido I find it more interesting to read a satire or a critique of sex than a straight up sex scene.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 12:29:44 2015 No.6123643 >>6122464 >>6122475 I guess I should've clarified for the assholes and ignoramuses that pervade this place. Of course there are some examples of eroticism in his works, but the vast majority are devoid of romance and sex.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 12:31:00 2015 No.6123648 >>6122011 Moby Dick

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 12:35:55 2015 No.6123661 >>6123643 What about all of the allusions to Venus in Furs in The Metamorphosis? Kafka was just a big perv.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 12:56:10 2015 No.6123729 >>6122011 >>6122120 >>6122137 >>6122126 >>6122311 >>6122338 >>6122351 >>6122455 seriously you guys stop being such little bitches

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 12:57:07 2015 No.6123730 >>6123729 how heavy r the deadfists that u do

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 13:00:25 2015 No.6123736 >>6122311 Be white on OKcupid and message asians. Problem solved.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 13:10:40 2015 No.6123758 >>6122011 The Hobbit

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 13:14:08 2015 No.6123767 >>6123730 the heaviest >>6123758 also seconding this for OP

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 13:16:42 2015 No.6123775 File: 43 KB, 312x475, 132376.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6122011 Almost devoid of woman, also my favourite book. though i'm not sure the translation will be any good

>>	Von Mises Scum !qhzHXz.g3o Tue Feb 10 18:46:18 2015 No.6124881 OP:The story

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 19:42:40 2015 No.6125095 >>6122011 >put off by romance Go to bed, Elliott.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 19:43:40 2015 No.6125101 >>6123648 There's romance in this.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 19:51:14 2015 No.6125146 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dbR2JZmlWo

Anonymous Tue Feb 10 20:05:10 2015 No.6125209
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>>6122011
not sure, but make sure to avoid checkhov

>I was conscious of a slight twinge of horror at the thought that a respectable, honest, and unhappy woman had so easily, after some three or four hours, succumbed to the first man she met.
i'm currently reading love and other stories, his characters get so much pussy with minimal effort it pains me

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 20:09:34 2015 No.6125227 moby dick

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 20:24:16 2015 No.6125279 >>6123648 >>6125227 Queequeg and Ishmael are quite clearly lovers.

Anonymous Tue Feb 10 20:39:59 2015 No.6125341

Most everything has some kind of romance in it no matter if it adds to the story or not. If you want to avoid that you may want to look into stories with older protagonists or younger ones. In between is just asking for trouble.

Stuff like The Old Man and the Sea or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 20:49:53 2015 No.6125374 >>6125279 >not being able to identify platonic love between two good male friends >n...nohomo

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 21:04:23 2015 No.6125437 >>6125279 And Sam and Frodo had to be fucking because Sam loved his friend right?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 21:29:18 2015 No.6125530 File: 233 KB, 901x1500, dsgdfgds.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6122011 Tropic of Cancer

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 21:35:09 2015 No.6125564 >>6125530 This. Absolutely barren. It's like reading about a nunery.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 21:51:36 2015 No.6125636 Animal Farm

Anonymous Tue Feb 10 22:19:37 2015 No.6125738

>>6122126
This happened to me today HOLY FUCK. i was reading robin hobb today and came the part when Molly and Fitzchiv get it on.

it made me remember how it used to be with my ex. so depressed after that. i picked up magic mountain straight after. pls be no sex in it

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 22:21:30 2015 No.6125746 >>6125738 >my ex

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 22:24:52 2015 No.6125757 >>6122434 Venus in Furs, lil bitch.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 22:26:11 2015 No.6125761 Why are you interested in male authors more than women?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 22:26:41 2015 No.6125762 >>6122311 fuck you, i've always been myself and it never worked i'm going to start not being myself now, wish me luck everyone

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 10 22:49:29 2015 No.6125851 >>6122011 >see Samurai X on the front page YES! >/lit/ and completely unrelated to topic Aww

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 11 01:28:53 2015 No.6126522 >>6122011 Child of God and the road both by cormac mccarthy.

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