Thread 24636586

Are novels a good way to experience love, with its pros, cons, and all that? And if so, what books are good for that?

>>24636586 (OP)

You won't believe when i say that there's genre that captures the experience of love...romance

>>24636607
Are there any romance novels written for men?

>>24636607
ik that, but just wanted to see if it was something real or more fanciful

>>24636586 (OP)
Cute sexy girl

>>24636666

White Nights by Dosto

>>24636586 (OP)
Spring Snow by Mishima

>>24636586 (OP)
Anna Karenina

>>24636586 (OP)
No, you will read about it but won't understand it. Live your real life, faggot

>>24636607
Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined. I'm not joking.

>>24636586 (OP)
No, novels aren't a replacement for experiences. They are theory and not practice. You can read all the books on a topic, but if you never engage with them you will just fumble around them.

>>24636833
>They are theory and not practice
Novels are distilled and sublime life. They're realer than "real life" even.

>>24636840
kys

Novels don't contain experience, they're material things.

>>24636666
That's like half of novels out there

>>24636586 (OP)
>You won't believe when i say that there's genre that captures the experience of love...romance
Really? *kek*

>>24636666
Call Me By Your Name

yay!! everyone loved my thread :3

>>24636789
>>24636790
>>24636818
>>24636800
will read ty!

>>24636814
I try to but before that I want to be prepared...

>>24636833
u right on that one but after reading a lot I will practice I promise!

>>24636840
thanks for defending me, anon!

>>24637907
say gex :3

>>24636840
If you never go outside, sure.

>>24637980
The people you meet outside are under no circumstances authentic or real. The characters in novels are on the other hand.

Most accurate novel about love I've read is Aurelien by Louis Aragon

>>24637988
are you saying my posting history is more real than I am?

>>24638071
In the sense of more honest, yes.

Hijacking this thread (with no survivors): Would love some recs for books about the bitterness that arises from unrequited love.
>>24637970
>>24637957
Werther by Goethe

no. youre just reading some nerds musings on their failed romances most of the time.

>>24637988
chat is this true??

>>24638216
This is not true.

>>24636666
I've looked into this because I'm desperate but the real answer is no.

>>24636666
The notebook
Fault in our stars

>>24636840
>Novels are realer than "real life" even.
I thought Don Quijote was an essential novel

Donkey Shot

>>24638015
>Aurelien by Louis Aragon
I remember a post by some anon a few years back praising it as one the greatest novels of the 20th century.

My French is not yet good enough to read the original, does it work in translation or am I fucked?

Also, have you read Proust, and if yes, how would you compare them?

>>24636586 (OP)
Gone with the Wind. Read it.

>>24639391
I've thought this fertile soil for a book, before, but do struggle with the concept ultimately devolving into an escape fantasy by way of incredibility.

>>24637970
>>24637957
>>24636586 (OP)
I fucking hate women. I fucking hate women. I despise women. And no human being should feel sorry enough for their lot in life that they would want to have sex with women. It's a fucking joke.

Every man should be focused on fucking as many female celebrities as possible. These are your fucking idols. So you're going to get a woman who looks like one of your idols and you're going to fuck her and tell her who you really are. You're going to say, "I'm the fucking CEO of Tesla, I'm the world's most valuable inventor, I own PayPal." And she's going to think, "This guy is such a fucking idiot. I'm just a girl who had to come over here from fucking Hungary because my fucking family is poor and I'm going to tell this fucking loser who owns Tesla and has no job, and this guy is going to buy my fucking vagina for the night." And then you're going to do this to her and this.

>>24642900
relax guy its just a tranny larping as a woman. there are no women on the internet

>>24642949
Hes also a tranny.