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06-30-2007, 02:33 AM
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Tragedies
Does anyone know any books with tragic heroes or books where the main character dies in the end?
I all ready have a complete works of Shakespeare book, so please no recommending him. Also I was wondering if there are many modern day tragedies?
Thanks in advance.
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07-02-2007, 10:01 AM
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The problem here is that it may not be known that the character dies toward the end and therefore it can be deemed a spoiler. With that in mind, here's two novels where the main character certainly dies:
The Death Of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy
Everyman, Philip Roth
I would also steer you towards A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving. And Yukio Mishima's The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea. Oh, and Lamb by Bernard MacLaverty.
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07-02-2007, 10:18 AM
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The Davinci Code, the tragedy was, the book was so bad.
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07-02-2007, 12:36 PM
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What kind of books? Fantasy? Sci-Fi? Mystery? Anything?
And Lance... shut up.
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07-02-2007, 01:00 PM
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You follow me around to every topic I post, sorry I don't take commands from anyone, especially you.
Report me.
Shame.
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You know what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna go post spam in the lyrics section and post idiotic messages in the fiction section and then I'm going to go into the debate section and I'm gonna post a whole lot of nothing, and after that I'm going to start 20 page arguements about homosexuality. You know why? Because I'm a human being that wants to make stupid noobish posts and theres nothing you can do to stop me.
Have a nice day.
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07-02-2007, 01:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Ilasir Maroa
What kind of books? Fantasy? Sci-Fi? Mystery? Anything?
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Anything except horror, not a big fan of horror. |
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07-02-2007, 04:31 PM
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And what level?
Some of those above are older books. Are you looking at contemporary books too? I don't want to suggest something that turns out to be the wrong age level or something.
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07-02-2007, 04:37 PM
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Tragedies are everywhere, but it's not just the main character dying. It's about a person who tries to do the right thing, but ends up losing. Not necessarily dying.
Tragedy really is an overused word. But I can't think of any contemporary ones right now.
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07-02-2007, 05:37 PM
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Conn Iggulden's Emperor books about Julius Ceasar. Very entertaining and unless you're painfully ignorant about history it's no spoiler that the main character dies in the end.
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07-02-2007, 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Faustling
Conn Iggulden's Emperor books about Julius Ceasar. Very entertaining and unless you're painfully ignorant about history it's no spoiler that the main character dies in the end.
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I would have never known if you hadn't of told me!!
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You know what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna go post spam in the lyrics section and post idiotic messages in the fiction section and then I'm going to go into the debate section and I'm gonna post a whole lot of nothing, and after that I'm going to start 20 page arguements about homosexuality. You know why? Because I'm a human being that wants to make stupid noobish posts and theres nothing you can do to stop me.
Have a nice day.
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07-03-2007, 03:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Shawn
Tragedies are everywhere, but it's not just the main character dying. It's about a person who tries to do the right thing, but ends up losing. Not necessarily dying.
Tragedy really is an overused word. But I can't think of any contemporary ones right now.
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Everything ever written by Richard Yates, notably Revolutionary Road.
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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07-03-2007, 03:20 AM
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Ah. I got a quarter through Gatsby and had to put it down... still haven't gotten back to it. Thanks for ruining it. 
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07-03-2007, 06:25 AM
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I've not even read it and know how it ends, thanks to Blake Bailey's excellent biography of the aforementioned Yates. If you want real life tragedy, in biography form, then that's a good place to look.
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07-03-2007, 08:16 AM
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
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07-05-2007, 12:40 AM
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Winston in "1984" by George Orwell
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