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sinewyshadow lemmy.ml sinewyshadow@lemmy.ml
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Hi! Im looking for book recommendations where the boy likes a girl but shes with someone else and the boy and girl end up together in the end. Thank you!

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Kongar lemmy.dbzer0.com Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Pride and prejudice.

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unmagical lemmy.ml unmagical@lemmy.ml
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In the Days of the Comet

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Nuvalon lemmy.ml Nuvalon@lemmy.ml
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Naich piefed.world Naich@piefed.world
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The Silence of the Lambs.

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Berttheduck lemmy.ml Berttheduck@lemmy.ml
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It's a great book but I dunno about boy meets girl. It's more civilisation dies and is reborn a few thousand years later with the weird leftovers of the previous one.

Or did it have a romance I am forgetting?

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bob_lemon feddit.org bob_lemon@feddit.org
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Ken Follett actually likes to do this. Pillars of the Earth and its sequel World Without End both have it. A dangerous fortune does, too. They're all primarily historical fiction though, the romance is always just a part of it.

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SourDrink lemmy.world SourDrink@lemmy.world
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Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

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Hazy aussie.zone Hazy@aussie.zone
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It's a great book but I dunno about boy meets girl. It's more civilisation dies and is reborn a few thousand years later with the weird leftovers of the previous one. Or did it have a romance I am forgetting?

I'd hardly call it a romance, there is a subplot, but the person just didn't bother reading the prompt.

That said, I'd also highly recommend children of time lol

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nyctre piefed.social nyctre@piefed.social
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Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Pretty good book, but doesn't fit with what op needs.

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evidences lemmy.world evidences@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-27
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Pretty good book, but doesn't fit with what op needs.

My Doors of Stone fan continuation does this though. /s

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hoch lemmy.world hoch@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-02
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Pride and prejudice.

Dear god what a boring story

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SourDrink lemmy.world SourDrink@lemmy.world
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Pretty good book, but doesn't fit with what op needs.

It kinda fits if you turn your head sideways and squint real hard. What OP is asked for is definitely not the main plotline.

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Yankee_Self_Loader lemmy.world Yankee_Self_Loader@lemmy.world
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Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

OP be aware that this is a series that is unfinished and will likely never be finished. Good books but don’t read it expecting an ending

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nyctre piefed.social nyctre@piefed.social
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It kinda fits if you turn your head sideways and squint real hard. What OP is asked for is definitely not the main plotline.

It's not just that it's not the main plotline..

Tap for spoiler

They never go past friends, despite all their flirting or whatever that is. And they obviously don't end up together since it's just him and bast at the inn

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SourDrink lemmy.world SourDrink@lemmy.world
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It's not just that it's not the main plotline.. ::: spoiler Tap for spoiler They never go past friends, despite all their flirting or whatever that is. And they obviously don't end up together since it's just him and bast at the inn :::

That is very true. I probably was not in right headspace to be recommending anything.

Not a proper recc

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nyctre piefed.social nyctre@piefed.social
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That is very true. I probably was not in right headspace to be recommending anything. Not a proper recc

I think it's a great rec. Rothfuss's style is amazing and everyone should experience it. (And more people need to feel the pain of knowing they'll never get to read the end :p) It's true that it doesn't fit with what op wanted, but well... They just need to go into it with the proper expectations so as to not be disappointed.

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Ilixtze lemmy.ml Ilixtze@lemmy.ml
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Echopraxia, the boy is a conscience destroying virus and the girl is the earth entangled with this other boy, "humanity". The conscience destroying boy travels across the universe to finally end up with the girl

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GiorgioPerlasca lemmy.ml GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2022-04-26
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Some books that could partially fit:

  • In Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert a boy loves a woman who is already married
  • In Anna Karenina by Levy Tolstoy a married woman falls in love with a young man
  • In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne a man loves a married woman
  • In The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, by Henry Fielding, a poor boy likes a rich girl, but the father of the girl does not agree, but they end up together
  • In The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni, the boy wants to marry the girl, but a very rich and powerful man is in love with the girl and want to marry her too
  • In The End of the Affair by Graham Green, both the man and the woman are with someone else and they end up together
  • In Twilight by Stephenie Meyer there is a teenage love triangle with warewolves and vampires
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Digit lemmy.wtf Digit@lemmy.wtf
Joined: 2023-10-29
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Pretty sure it's like that. ;)

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GiorgioPerlasca lemmy.ml GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml
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Pretty sure it's like that. ;)

1984 by George Orwell was strongly inspired by We by Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin. He was a former Bolshevik who grew disillusioned with authoritarianism, was critiquing the nascent Soviet bureaucracy, the philosophy of Taylorism, and the loss of individual imagination and soul in a collectivist project. He was warning against the trajectory of the revolution.

We is a modernist novel. It is fragmented, philosophical, and heavily reliant on symbolism and stream of consciousness. I would suggest to read We by Zamyatin, to the readers who prefer modernist complexity over narrative accessibility.

We contains a more pervasive and psychologically intense exploration of sexuality, which is essential to the protagonist's philosophical unraveling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)

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sem piefed.blahaj.zone sem@piefed.blahaj.zone
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The Office, except its a sitcom

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Nuvalon lemmy.ml Nuvalon@lemmy.ml
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I'd hardly call it a romance, there is a subplot, but the person just didn't bother reading the prompt. That said, I'd also highly recommend children of time lol

i forgor 💀

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ lemmy.ml yogthos@lemmy.ml
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Water Moon

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Digit lemmy.wtf Digit@lemmy.wtf
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1984 by George Orwell was strongly inspired by We by Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin. He was a former Bolshevik who grew disillusioned with authoritarianism, was critiquing the nascent Soviet bureaucracy, the philosophy of Taylorism, and the loss of individual imagination and soul in a collectivist project. He was warning against the trajectory of the revolution. We is a modernist novel. It is fragm...

Thanks for the suggestion.

While not a novel, Mattias Desmet's The Psychology Of Totalitarianism's also a good read to be aware of such things.

... Also, frighteningly, Edward Bernays' Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923) (and Propaganda (1928)), to learn from the monster's mouth, what inspired Hitler's Mein Kampf (1925), and many other psyops put upon us.

Also even contrast Marx, to the anarchist writings of e.g. Mikhail Bakunin who said “We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality”, to see how Marx usurped the words (like "communism") and philosophies of anarchists, to hand them over to the tankies and totalitarians.

As relates to the original post, perhaps we, the people, can yet end up with the "girl" of a good system (or lack of system), even after it being perverted to something that hates us while she's with someone else (... the pedovore aristocratic satanists).

Can still mend this.

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