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Popular Fictional Relationship Novel On Online Romance

By Jessica Taylor


Life today involves physical interactions that are punctuated with extensive internet use. The norm of meeting people physically and forming relationships has been replaced by the internet as the meeting point. This has given rise to the genre of the fictional relationship novel set on the internet. Here are some of the amazing titles that embrace and expound on this idea.

Nick Hornby authored Juliet, Naked. This is a story that begins with Annie criticizing the work of a singer called Crowe Tucker. Tucker happens to be an idol in the eyes of Duncan. Duncan is Annies boyfriend. This becomes a source of conflict and the two breakup. The review prompts Crowe to send an email to Annie. This is the beginning of a relationship between Annie and Crowe.

Rainbow Rowell makes a writing debut with the book Attachments. At work, Lincoln is assigned the duty of reading through emails of his colleagues at work to ensure that they do not cross the boundaries of company policy. In the process, he encounters a conversation between two of her fellow employees interacting in a manner contravening company policy. She does not report them but keeps reading.

Melanie Gideon is the hand behind Wife 22. The main character is a middle aged mother and wife living a disgruntled life. She receives an invitation to participate in an online survey about marriage. Her identification title is Wife 22. A lot of time is spent thinking about the best answers to questions sent by researcher 101. The questions and answers change her life as she has a revelation she would never have had.

Super Sad True Love Story looks into a future where communication has ceased to be physical and is now through gadgets called aparats. These devices are hand held and have caused people to stop reading or talking to each other. They have artificial intelligence that rates people based on attractiveness and financial status, among other tenets. Through a platform referred to as Global Teen, Eunice meets Lennie and they have a one night stand. The interesting part is the description Eunice gives to her friend about the relationship.

Richard Yate is written by Tao Lin about a union that begins at Google chat. The relationship on this platform does not have any emotional attachment. Such relationships have over flown to the point of affecting how people communicate or interact in real life. The book has become controversial and received a lot of criticism for depicting internet relationships as such. The comments and reviews given are usually hilarious and polemic.

Eloves Me, Eloves Me Not is the debut novel of L. A. Johanneson writing career. This is a tale of a woman in her late thirties with everything she ever wanted in life apart from a loving person to come home to. Kayte has tried the conventional dating and failed terribly. She is advised by a friend to try online dating. The journey is very interesting.

Financial Lives of the Poet was authored by Walter Jesse. The story features Matt, a reporter who quits his job and begins a poetry blog. It fails yet he cannot tell his wife, an Ebay fanatical shopper. Matt suspects that the wife is about to run away with a high school boyfriend they reconnected via facebook. He has to do all it takes to salvage his marriage.




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