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(Anonymous) 2011-07-30 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Any good "bromance" recs? Particularly books. Books books books. Give me literature.

To be more specific, I'm not looking for outright slash. But that sort of "inseparable best friends" relationship, know what I mean? If it's easily interpreted as being totally slashy, that's cool. Just something without amorous physical contact (barring hugs, maybe, IDK).


I was having this discussion with a friend, and we realized it seems tough to find stuff where male characters are written with a very close bond without it being overtly sexual. At least when it comes to fandom. She said "bromance" isn't a viable genre, it's either outright slashy sharing-of-bodily-fluids or bust. Pssh. Prove her wrong, F!S-goers!

(Anonymous) 2011-07-30 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
there's a couple of dudes on NUMB3RS who have the most epic bromance ever - but it's not a book. Sorries.

(Anonymous) 2011-07-30 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
not a book, but there's an epic bromance on NUMB3RS from season 2 on. I mean, it can be read as a romance, but most people I know don't see it.

(Anonymous) 2011-07-30 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
idk, a lot of older fiction has that sort of intense, non-sexual male relationships in, but that's probably not what you're looking for

OP

(Anonymous) 2011-07-30 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm down with older fiction, anon! What did you have in mind? (barring Sherlock Holmes. Everyone says that, but I'm already a fan, haha)

Re: OP

(Anonymous) 2011-07-30 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
shit, i had so many examples that all just skipped out of my head. :|

sherlock holmes, definitely. wind in the willows? actually, a lot of turn-of-the-century fiction, that i've read anyway, features that kind of relationship. lord of the rings. tristram shandy?

btw, you might want to look into buddy movies: in general they tend to portray the male (non-sexual, sometimes pseudo-romantic) friendship as more important than any other relationship in the movie.

butch cassidy and the sundance kid, too.

(Anonymous) 2011-07-30 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
TV, not books, but: COMMUNITY. Has basically the most bromance-y bromance ever.

(Anonymous) 2011-07-30 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
maybe you should spend less time in fandom where everything is overtly sexual

inseparable dude best friends stuff is pretty much everywhere

(Anonymous) 2011-07-30 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Not a book, but a TV show: White Collar.

(Anonymous) 2011-07-30 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
morecambe & wise

(Anonymous) 2011-07-30 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, let me think *steeples fingers*

The Eagle of the Ninth, by Rosemary Sutcliff? Written for older children, but I love it anyway, and pretty epically bromantic. Advntures in Roman Britain, yay! (Stay away from the film, it's not a very good/ faithful adaptation).

Seconding Sherlock Holmes.

The Aubrey-Maturin series, by Patrick O'Brian, centres on a brilliant friendship and spans, idek, a couple of decades, if you're into naval/ historical fiction (although it's not 100% boats, there is also politics and romance and spyhatting). There is also a decent-sized fandom!

Hmm. Things like The Three Musketeers, The Lord of the Rings and the Temeraire series have a fair amount of bromance, but it's less centre-staged, perhaps.

Also, I haven't read the Epic of Gilgamesh, but from what I've heard it would fit your citerior.

Er, sorry for the tl;dr, I got a bit carried away XD

(Anonymous) 2011-07-31 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
*criterior and probably *ships

Missed your Sherlock Holmes note as well, apologies! No reading comprehension cookie for me, haha.

(Anonymous) 2011-07-31 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
That's okay! :) You get a cookie for taking the time to dig up all those recs! Thank you, anon!

(Anonymous) 2011-07-31 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Hahaha. Epic of Gilgamesh IS really bromantic. It's sort of a "Women suck, bromance FTW!" sort of story...
Definitely one of the most epic bromances ever, though.
(Achilles and Patrocolus in the Iliad also works, if you're doing the ancient myth thing. Or David and Jonathon in the Old Testament.)

(Anonymous) 2011-07-31 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
I am so sorry for you that everyone is saying 'NOT A BOOK BUT A TV SHOW'

I don't have any recs myself, unfortunately, but I am also interested.

Not a book but

(Anonymous) 2011-07-31 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
The Trigun manga has some amazing bromance.

(Anonymous) 2011-07-31 09:22 am (UTC)(link)
Franklin and Bash, Psych, White Collar, and Iron Man: Armored Adventures all come to mind.

Admittedly, none of this is literature, but it sure seems to me that I see it everywhere.

(Anonymous) 2011-07-31 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
Janne, min vän (Johnny, My Friend) by Peter Pohl. It's about a very close friendship which is really love (if you want to see it this way)

(Anonymous) 2011-07-31 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Good Omens! Aziraphale and Crowley have SUCH a good bromance.

(Anonymous) 2011-07-31 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I love that book! I agree, as the book goes on they develop a great rapport with one another. Aziraphale will always be my favourite, though :)
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