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Belle and Sebastian makes me need more books! Help me please

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NJavster:
Hey,
I know I don't post here much, so I hope it's okay with the mods that I do this, but here goes:

Oh, I'll settle down with some old story
About a boy who's just like me
Thought there was love in everything and everyone
You're so naive!
After a while they always get it
They always reach a sorry end
Still it was worth it as I turned the pages solemnly, and then
With a winning smile, the boy
With naivety succeeds
At the final moment, I cried
I always cry at endings
-Belle and Sebastian, "Get me away from here, I'm dying," If you're feeling sinister

What book/story do you think of when you hear that? Can you please share it with me? Because I heard those lyrics and desperately needed to read a book like that. I have no gender preference for the protagonist (who is described in the lyrics as male).

Please, please, please: if you can help me with this, I will forever be in your debt.

Thank You!
-Nicole

KharBevNor:
Brave New World

NJavster:

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Really? I've read Brave New World and a bunch of other stuff by Huxley, but it didn't really seem to fit with the lyrics (mostly the ending being kind of tragic). I guess I should have been a bit more specific: like, Mr. Smith goes to Washington in book form (I've never seen the movie, btw, just using it as an example).

Sorry! Thanks so much, KharBevNor, for the help.

Inlander:
Hmm . . . try the Folded Leaf by William Maxwell.

KharBevNor:
I was being flippant/silly/taking the piss. It's a book (partly) about a naive boy, with an ending that makes you cry.  

It wasn't a serious suggestion. I guess you probably want a romance novel or a modern, Catcher in the Rye style coming of age novel, both types of books I don't have much time for.

I dunno...some classics maybe? Jane Austen or The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby? The first two books of the Gormenghast trilogy might be appropriate as well.

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