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[Idealistic]

I'm wondering if someone can recommend me a novel I'd be interested in.

My favorite stories, movies or novels, are: Flowers for Algernon, 12 Monkeys, The Bourne Identity, Memento, Leon: The Professional and Lolita.

Ideally, I would like a novel that either makes you think (or has action/adventure) and has elements of tragic romance; anyone familiar with the above titles can sort of get the gist of the genre I like.

I was thinking about reading "The Rules of Attraction", by Ellis, but accidentally read too much of a review and discovered too much of the story's plot. Also, I felt the writing style may have been a little bit unsettling for me.

[Dialectic]

The Count of Monte Cristo-Alexander Dumas

[Playtime]

You'd like Phillip K Dick. I'd start with "Ubik".

[kiki1982]

The Count of Monte Cristo is a good idea, but some of that is more adventure than tragic romance and adventure then taken very widely. Actually most of it is, though everything plays in the background, both Haydée and Mercédès.


The Three Musketeers is an adventure novel and some tragic romance, but actually it only becomes tragic by the end, if you do not count another story about it.

[Patrick_Bateman]

Bruges la Morte

[mal4mac]

La Bête Humaine by Émile Zola.

War and Peace has a wonderful doomed romance at its centre, plus plenty of action and adventure!

Barnaby Rudge by Dickens - the two leading rebels have bad cases of unrequited love... or lust...

Hardy - anything by Hardy, he's all about tragic romance... try Tess to start with...

It's difficult to pick up a novel without finding a tragic romance! I'm enjoying "Ginger, You're Barmy" by David Lodge at the moment - it has a love triangle, which always equals tragic romance. It also has RC guilt, army action, murder, nascent IRA activity, and the hero has a first in Engliksh Lit. - so enough action & adventure, and perhaps to much thought provocation (the young David Lodge trying to show off!)

[kelby_lake]

Othello :D

[Emil Miller]

The Great Gatsby: probably the most tragic romance in American writing.

[Patrick_Bateman]

The Great Gatsby: probably the most tragic romance in American writing.

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[Emil Miller]

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[cyberbob]

1984 if you haven't read it. DO IT.

[Vladimir777]

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I think he means "End of thread," as in nothing can top Gatsby as an answer to the OP's question.

[Patrick_Bateman]

I think he means "End of thread," as in nothing can top Gatsby as an answer to the OP's question.

Precisely.