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[maybemonday]

I'm currently in the middle of one of those India books where the heroine is forced into an arranged marriage when her family finds out about her unsuitable love for a man of a lower caste. I'm at my favorite part in books like this -- their wedding night, when the new husband, despite having a monstrous family, is being a sweetheart, and says that

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[aleffert]

Have you read Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri?

[maybemonday]

No, but it's been on my list for a while....

She admits she has one- *gasps*

[sanslimites]

Because I'm not precisely sure how to describe it, to use an example-

the thing that comes to mind is in lady of the forest. Like the scene where Robin's nightmares torment him, and she handles it, very earthily...
so simple, & so cliched, but when it's done well- when it actually means something- well, it just seems so much more realistic than most other romance ideals, and so personal...

or! *gasps* If you haven't read tolkien's lay of lethian yet, you must- though not his utmost spectacular writing it is still possibly one of the most romantic things i have ever read; i read that shortly after LoTR and sometimes I think I love it more; the entire thing is- swoonworthy. If only I knew how to swoon.

i could probably recite the first few stanzas, actually, and scattered selections, i've read it so many times...

[amequo]

The Lay of Lethian is absolutely wonderful ::sigh:: just wonderful. My favorite.

I like the movie for more reasons, but there are some nice moments in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" that I like. For instance, when Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet are in bed and she asks if she's pretty, and as the memory unfolds, he grasps to keep that one.

I would consider the Princess Bride movie but, really, it's so much more than just a love story. There's "fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles."