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    Default A book with no happy ending ,please?

    Does anyone know of a book for me?

    I'm looking for a very passionate love story..... that doesn't have a happy ending. A book where hearts get broken in the end, and nothing ever get's better. So basicly, I want people who fall in love and are together for a long time, but things happen and both hearts get broken. Is there a book like this.


    Please don't suggest ROMEO AND JULIET.

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    Um. Well there's a great book with a great love story and a great concept that made me cry at the end. The thing is, it ends in sadness and loss but there's a sort of epilogue that leaves things on a happy note. Well not happy but... resolved and content.

    Not sure if that's exactly what you're looking for. But the book is called The Time Traveler's Wife and it's one of my favorites. It's a great love story.

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    Of Mice and Men. The main characters don't love each other in the traditional sense, as they are both male, but there is an inseparable bond between them. It's a great book.

    You could try The Great Gatsby if you want a more traditional tragic love story.

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    You might try to read "Sandman: The Dream Hunters" by Neil Gaiman with illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano. It's not a book though, it's a graphic novel, and its ending is not heartbreaking as much as ...hum...the way things had to go. But it does speak about a passionate love, even if quite one-sided.

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    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Oh gosh, what a tragic ending. Everyone in it has an unhappy ending. The book is nothing like how cutsified Disney made it to look. Esmerelda... well, she and Phoebus... I don't want to ruin the ending, you'll just have to read!

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    pretty much every book by Steinbeck, including Of Mice and Men is like that. <i>The Red Pony</i> is about a boy's love for a horse, but same basic stuff. Really sad. Or you could try Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. It's great.

    Personally I think the best novel with a sad and unresolved (and also completely confusing) ending is Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. You should read that. The scene near the end where Enzian passes Tchitcherine on the road is absolutely heartbreaking. There's not much actual romance in the book, though.

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