>>25347947
>is reading romance books a good way to get rid of your crippling loneliness?
No. Don't read books to escape the world.

>>25347969
why?

>>25347947
>is reading romance books a good way to get rid of your crippling loneliness?
no, because the characters who populate market-driven romance are largely lifeless cliches. it's like talking to an LLM. read a real writer if you want a sense of what true soul-contact is like. i recommend DH Lawrence: The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird.

>>25347969
books are part of the world.

>>25347947
nope, no amount of romantic cope will help with this feeling

>>25347970
It's not going to solve your loneliness and it will make you bitter. If you're young, you're going to regret it once you get older.
Do read romance, but be sure to not live your life in books.
>>25347975
>books are part of the world.
Agreed

>>25347975
what about poetry? I remember liking Shakespeare and Goethe

There's something wrong with this painting. I think the composition is too central. Everything even remotely interesting is happening all in a vertical line straight up the middle. Very poor choice.

>>25347987
the painting is cut for some reason, OP didn't even bother to find original

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>>25347989
I see.
The original is better. Thanks.
Why would anyone take a so-so painting and crop it to make it worse? Some people have no taste.

>>25347947
first you have to ask yourself: do you deserve to be alone? most people who feel alone are fucking filth

>>25347947

>is reading romance books a good way to get rid of your crippling loneliness?
Lots of people try it. A decent one might offer some not-entirely-poisonous emotional food.

>any good ones? I'd prefer ones with historical settings
Some historical novels with a decent romance (even if not central), male protagonist:

— ‘The White Company’ (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Medieval. Young monk has to spend a year out in the world before deciding if he wants to commit to monkdom. He gets a job as a tutor to a nobleman’s daughter and —

— ‘The Far Pavilions’ (M. M. Kaye)
19th century, British India. Yes, it is ‘English boy meets Indian girl’, but she is at least a princess. Also it avoids WHITE PEOPLE BAD which is more-or-less baked into the DNA of any present-day book with a similar setting. Female author alert, if that's a problem. She is reasonably morally sound though.

— ‘Lorna Doone’ (R. D. Blackmore)
M.C. is young farmer in Exmoor in 1600s. His father was killed by a local clan of miscreants when he was a boy. He’s pretty easy-going but a vague duty of revenge is in the air. Out exploring, he meets this cute girl . . . Voted ‘favourite novel’ by men at Harvard in 1906, IIRC.

— ‘Captain Blood’ (Rafael Sabatini)
Doctor at the time of the Monmouth Rebellion (1685) is unjustly convicted of treason, sent off to prison colony. Escapes & becomes a PIRATE. Proud local beauty misjudges him but learns the error of her ways.

>>25347947
I don't get lonely