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Erste Liebe

Ivan Turgenev

3.68 AVERAGE

dark fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
emotional reflective sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional reflective

I love classics so much lately, the prose is so beautifully crafted, the plot is interesting. I, too, would go for a silly walk to clear my mind, declare i’m in love a day and a half after meeting someone and fall on my bed dramatically at the first sign of misfortune. 

Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love-where are you? Where are you?

and the following is so wasteland baby coded
I cannot even begin to convey the feelings with which I left her. I never wish to experience them again, but I should count it a misfortune never to have had them at all. 
emotional fast-paced
Strong character development: Yes

Desgarrador, estos rusos son bien dramáticos y oscuros y aun asi tiene unos personajes muy entrañables. 
emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
emotional fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

to-read

This short story is about unhappy and sad one-sided love.
Compared to this, the love in "Romeo and Juliet" or "Titanic" is a happy one albeit with their unhappy endings.
The teenage protagonist ("I") in this story has a crush on an older girl and the girl has a crush on the boy's father.
The madness of the girl's love seems even greater and more unhappy than that of the protagonist's
I wonder what the percentage of this kind of unhappy love might be compared to the happy one in the real world.
emotional sad medium-paced
emotional reflective sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes