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Books where the main character doesn't get the girl.

>> No.796422

kick-ass

>> No.796428

What is Lolita? LOL

>> No.796430

>>796428
But he gets her several times

>> No.796434

House of Leaves

>> No.796450

Without Remorse

>> No.796456

Return of the Native

>> No.796459

The Sorrows of Young Werther.

>> No.796460

Norwegian Wood

>> No.796465

Catcher in the Rye

>> No.796481

>>796459

Oh god, this book.

>> No.796485

The Idiot

>> No.796523

Moby Dick.

>> No.796526

Why would you compile such a list?

"Not Me" BY Micheal Lavigne

>> No.796547

New Moon.

>> No.796598

>>796485
He can have her if he wants her, just with a bit of rigamortis.

Phantom of the Opera

Really, most of the ones I keep considering, he gets the girl in like the last minute and typically someone is dead a minute later so it doesn't really matter.

>> No.796608

The Dark Land

>> No.796623

The Road

>> No.796670

Josef K. has no game.

>> No.796677

The Plague

>> No.796782

1984

>> No.796814

The Dresden Files


He gets cockblocked so many times. Then his brother gets his cock ripped off by the power of love for being a rape-vampire.

>> No.796866

Blindsight.

>> No.796888

Neuromancer

>> No.796892

>>796888


You're forgetting that they have sex, so he kind of does

>> No.796899

What is The Enchanter?

>> No.796908

Neverwhere.

Richard never got to open Door's door.

>> No.796915

>>796459
>>796459
THIS

>> No.796937

>>796908
Oh, but you know he does after the story ends. Come on. That is like the first thing he's doing, is fucking Door.

>> No.796933

Bartimaeus Trilogy. Wuthering Heights if by "the guy" you mean Heathcliff and ignore all the afterlife bullshit.

>> No.796947

His Dark Materials Trilogy

>> No.796948

>>796937

Well Neil could've at least wrote it. Considering Stardust starts off with a sex scene and American Gods is epic fucking.

>> No.796986

Frankenstein

>> No.797047

Heathcliff was a hurpadurp, Hareton, or whoever the retarded guy was was a true bro.

>> No.797066

Snow Crash.

>> No.797084

Don Quijote

>> No.797086

ITT:NTR

>> No.797087

A Scanner Darkly

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>> No.797658

Sputnik sweetheart

>> No.797684

The Sun Also Rises

>> No.797701

I am Legend

>> No.797732

Looking for Alaska nigga

>> No.797780

In Search of Lost Time

>> No.797885

Something Happened (Virginia, namely)

>> No.797897

The Road

>> No.797902

Husband, Lover, Holy Man

>> No.797903

The Dark Tower

>> No.797913

>On Her Majesty's Secret Service
>Casino Royal

Bond doesn't get the girl in these novels.

>> No.797915

ITT: books by R9K?

>> No.797922

all the harlequin novels?

>> No.797925

If i read this list I'll never fear rejection again!

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what the fuck am i looking at.jpg

>> No.797950

A clockwork orange

>> No.798908

>>797930
Holy shit there is a whole series of these.

>> No.798916

Hmm, pretty much all Turgenev stories?

>> No.798938

Cold Mountain

which is a piece of shit