sinewyshadowBook recommendations?
Youth in Revolt
Nuvalon“Children of time” by Adrian Tchaikovsky
amazing sci-fi story if you like aliens that are actually aliens (diferent fisionomy, instead of humanoid)
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?
NaichIt 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 spoilerThey 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
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
IlixtzeSome 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
Digit1984 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.
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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