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  1. 02-23-2009, 09:02 PM #136
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    y not? Cuz Jane Eyre can't come NEwhere close 2 Twilight's gr8ness?

    Sheherezade,

    You do Hoope a disservice. She is not a native English speaker and, unfortunately, seems to have absorbed the current American vernacular into her writing. Because I have been in contact with her as a friend, I know that her main concern is to help disadvantaged people, and that is why she is studying nursing. Compared to myself, she is very young but her sincerity reaches beyond considerations of age or nationality and I have great respect for her. As for her literary concerns, she is a great supporter of Charles Dickens and has read more of his works than I have.
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  2. 02-24-2009, 04:04 AM #137
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    I would vote for the following three:

    Love in the Time of Cholera
    Lolita (yes, it is a love story in my opinion)
    The Age of Innocence
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  3. 02-24-2009, 06:58 AM #138
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    Cyrano de Bergerac for me. He is the ultimate romantic hero.

    Also Persuasion and Their Eyes Were Watching God.

    "The Gift of the Magi", as so many have mentioned, is THE warm and fuzzy little love story of the century.

    I haven't read Love in the Time of Cholera yet, though I'd like to. I just read my first Gabriel Garcia-Marquez in January and adored it.
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  4. 02-24-2009, 01:39 PM #139
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    Quote Originally Posted by hoope View Post
    I was gonna say that .. diffinately Jane & Rochester..

    i can also say Edward & Bella in Twilight

    Not Twilight!

    I'd add Lolita, not because it is a romance, but because it is a story of love. Lolita doesn't have any and Humbert has the wrong sort, but that scene right near the end...it made me cry it was so beautiful.

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  5. 02-24-2009, 05:40 PM #140
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    I'm not going to read through the whole thread, but I did notice R&J crop up near the beginning. I can I therefore add Beatrice and Benedick from Much Ado - infinitely more credible, and, I think, deeper!
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  6. 02-24-2009, 05:48 PM #141
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    Romeo and Juliet. No doubt.
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  7. 01-03-2013, 06:24 AM #142
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    Won't give scores, but try "Simon and Hiroko," by Marius Hancu. Contemporary, Japan and US. E-book only for now. Starts sweet, ends big drama. Found at Goodreads.
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  8. 01-03-2013, 07:28 AM #143
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    Hmmm, I'll just list a few interesting love stories off the top of my head, refering to the story of the characters, not the novel in its entirety.

    Marius and Cosette - Les Mis.
    Catherine Barkley and Frederic Henry - A Farewell to Arms
    Yuri Zhivago and Lara - Doctor Zhivago
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  9. 01-03-2013, 08:52 AM #144
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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Dante View Post
    Hmmm, I'll just list a few interesting love stories off the top of my head, refering to the story of the characters, not the novel in its entirety.

    Marius and Cosette - Les Mis.
    Catherine Barkley and Frederic Henry - A Farewell to Arms
    Yuri Zhivago and Lara - Doctor Zhivago
    Can't but approve:-)
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  10. 01-03-2013, 10:10 AM #145
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    The story that comes to mind as the best for me at the moment is Isaac Bashevis Singer's Gimpel the Fool, but there are so many good ones many already mentioned in this thread.
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  11. 01-03-2013, 05:33 PM #146
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    my thanks to everyone for all the books so far mentioned, i will have to get around to getting some of them, i could do with something emotional for a change.
    i really like romantic sub-plots to novels, they add great character development and something more to the full plot, yet i have never read a book where it was the main theme. i was today in a book store reading the first pages of 'First Love' by Turgenev. i know the basic plot and am intrigued by it yet it was way too pricey to buy just yet. anyone here read it, what did you think of it?
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  12. 01-04-2013, 01:08 AM #147
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    Anna Karenina, both her story and that of Levin and Kitty. It is in watching the arc of the two stories play out that brings such depth to the novel.

    I also love O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi. I cry whenever I read it. It is the best of all love stories because it shows what genuine love is. Emma, because it is funny, and also because I adore George Knightley, and Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew; I like the fiery tempestuousness of it.
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  13. 01-04-2013, 12:15 PM #148
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    Narcissus I believe....
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  14. 01-05-2013, 03:27 AM #149
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    I would recommend these texts.
    The Arrow of Gold - Conrad
    The Slave - Singer
    A Child Possessed - Hutchinson
    Wuthering Heights - Bronte (although the comments directed against it above are tru-ish)
    The Taste of Too Much - Hanley
    I should pick something by Lawrence but I won't as I don't much like him
    The Book of Ruth
    But I want to throw in a wonderful film - In the Mood for Love
    I agree about Pasternak
    And for the young and uncynical The Snow Goose - Gallico and Goodnight Mr Tom - Magorian
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  15. 01-05-2013, 01:30 PM #150
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    Joyce's "The Dead"
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