I generally greatly dislike love triangles too (though I admit I had a sort-of one in the flashback sections of the last novel, although that was really more unrequited love than a triangle, and anyway was mostly meant to illustrate the immaturity and foolishness of the characters at that time).
I do love Margaret Drabble's The Needle's Eye, which I suppose is technically kind of about a triangle, though the two principal characters barely touch and never explicitly declare themselves to each other -- it is in large part that restraint that I find appealling, and true to those particular people in that particular situation. There's another Drabble (The Waterfall) that ends with something about as close to a poly solution as she could get away with in her time and context.
There are some Graham Greene novels I'm very fond of which include triangles, but they tend to operate more as plot devices, not so much a wallow in the angst of it all. Similarly Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. It's a spy novel which includes a triangle for plot-related reasons, and that I can deal with, though I'd prefer to find different engines for my own plots.
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Date: 2011-08-25 08:41 pm (UTC)I do love Margaret Drabble's The Needle's Eye, which I suppose is technically kind of about a triangle, though the two principal characters barely touch and never explicitly declare themselves to each other -- it is in large part that restraint that I find appealling, and true to those particular people in that particular situation. There's another Drabble (The Waterfall) that ends with something about as close to a poly solution as she could get away with in her time and context.
There are some Graham Greene novels I'm very fond of which include triangles, but they tend to operate more as plot devices, not so much a wallow in the angst of it all. Similarly Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. It's a spy novel which includes a triangle for plot-related reasons, and that I can deal with, though I'd prefer to find different engines for my own plots.