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Naomi has been in my top 3 favourite books since the day I finished it about a year ago. Before this, I had never felt such intense nausea while reading a book until the last 30 pages of Naomi. I'm not an avid romance reader, so I couldn't tell you much about healthy relationships (The most romantic books I could recommend you would be "Young Werther" and "Kokoro" which are NOT the best depictions of love tbf). What can I say, I love morbid "love" stories where it's so unhealthy it drives at least one of them crazy :D
The way Joji lost every bit of his self-respect and dignity, just for his lover to chew him up and spit him out over and over again was a reality check on love that I never expected at the time. The thought of falling in love with someone so deeply that you forgive them for even the most despicable acts... My mind, and even my body, couldn't handle it.
I've also read Tanizaki's A Cat, a Man, and Two Women right after this which further deromanticized love for me somehow :D I, myself, wouldn't give up hope on love just because of fiction, BUT these books do leave you feeling a little hopeless :D Anyways, go read it, I love all the books mentioned here + Tanizaki is the best :PP
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VampireMinosaur
Bungo Stary Dogs is my favorite anime and (not sure if you knew that already) the characters are authors, and their personalities and "special abilities" are based on one or several of their books. One of characters is Tanizaki, and he has this weird relationship with his sister Naomi, so this is obviously bc of this book. I've wanted to read Naomi (and other books from other autors that apear in Bungo Stray Dogs) for quite a while now, and this blog has finally convinced me to do it, so after I finish my book for English class I'll read Naomi! Speaking of books by authors that are also BSD characters: I heavily recommend No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai, it got me through an extreme depressive episode last year (don't get me wrong, it's not a happy book, but my coping method for most things is reading relatable things).
Lastly: I gasped at the mention of Young Werther. Last year we had to read a simplified version of the book for German class (I'm Dutch, so that's why it was a simplified version) and after that we also watched the movie "Goethe" that was based on his life. It was beautiful. Yesterday I watched Dead Poets Society for the first time (finally) and it really reminded me of Werther/Goethe. Sorry for the extremely long comment btw :)
Falker Falkalister
i always try read this type of books, but also that i try i just fell something wrong inside of me, know?
like a agony, a pain, maybe is my fear of the reality it self remembering that the world is not a good place
i just to accept the real world and they monsters
...
:p
this is stupid right?
No it's not stupid :DD I was trying to indicate the same thing :D
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