/lit/ - Literature

Marius the Epicurean

>>19576716
Herodotus

>>19576716
Bridge of Birds
Titus Groan

possibly Don Quixote

fellowship of the ring

>>19576716
Anything by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Pickwick Papers

>>19576762
yea Thucydides also

>>19576839
I agree, the Pickwick Papers is comfy, especially the Christmas chapter/s or when Dickens describe the countryside.

if manga qualifies Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō was comfi

Presocratic shit

>>19576716
I bought man of gold (empire of the petal throne) from a recommendation I read on here the other day. Other online reviews also claim it to be a more unknown masterpiece. Hope it ends up being good.

>reading where their progress is halted by a snowstorm and M&D have an impromptu snowball fight/sled ride
>at 12am Christmas Eve
>while listening to Good King Wenceslaus
>by the light of the tree
>while it snows outside
Good Lord I think about it every year
Also Anatomy of Melancholy

Am I crazy for finding this comfy? Obviously for the setting, not anything else

Canticle for Leibowitz was pretty comfy

I find the dhammapada very comforting, although I dont think that's what it intends

probably some Bukowski that I took to the beach when I was 15/16

>>19576716

Hogg

"The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe."

>>19577391
Norwegian Wood as well

>Convenience Store Woman
Really got me through some tough times a couple years ago. Made me feel not alone even if my current existence was to be a meaningless cog. I was able to simultaneously commiserate with the main character while also getting a sense of escapism.

The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years by Chingiz Aitmatov. The Steppe parts in particular are pure fucking bliss for me

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

down and out in paris and london

>>19577952
Small comfort a pun.

Don’t get no more comfy than this

>>19578050
you sure?

This is honestly just one of my all time comfys.

Once and Future King. I love the Sword in the Stone book.

>>19577206
Yes because the setting was awful except around the temple. That's literally the point is that he's idealizing the temple even though it's decrepit just like everywhere else in post-war Japan.

>>19576839
Good evening, Mr. Tupman
>>19576865
Good evening, Mr. Snodgrass

Anne of Green Gables

>>19577802
Cool cover. Going on my to-read list

Montaigne's essays

>>19576716
>I wanna wander around postwar Italy, France, and Egypt to find myself, or a girlfriend, whilst mingling with various groups of saneless idiots.

>>19576866
>Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō
where can you get an English translation?

>>19577952
Extremely comfy

>>19577276
this is probably #1 for me. my other picks would be the first parts especially of growth of the soil, war and peace, fellowship of course, and don Quixote

>>19578384
Wait, wasn't he named Irving Washington?

>>19578399
Since I'm unfamiliar with middle French, which is the best English translation?

Easily this, combined with Shaykh Hamza Yusuf's Life of the Prophet Muhammad seerah series. Levels of comfy that completely transcend.

>>19576716
Serious answer: Rob Inglis audiobook of OP.

I'd put it on as background noise falling asleep. Almost any other audio would seem to interrupt my sleep and wake me up later, but not good old JRRT. But oh how I wished for a version with the songs excised.

>>19576716
Tove Jansson books

>>19576716
Brambly Hedge.

Crime and Punishment because I like reading about Russians in their little apartments. Also, Moby Dick for some reason.

>>19576716
The White Guard, by Mikhail Bulgakov

>>19576716
The Hobbit. Seriously. The Lord of the Rings may be really good too, like yeah, I remember reading Return of the King all night too, but The Hobbit is something else.

>>19578617
https://www.yugenykk.org/2018/01/about-this-release-as-yokohama-kaidashi.html?m=1

The snowy alpine setting makes this quite comfy

>>19579258
lolwhat?

Ecclesiastes

>>19579318
>he doesn't know middle french
leave this board pseud, you are a fool among men here

>>19576782
Based

>>19577045
this for me

>>19576716
The Rings of Saturn easily

very good thread

>>19576716
Anything Jack London
Asking as an Australian whos literally never seen snow, is snow, mountains and trees all its cracked up to be?

>>19576716
This.

>>19576716
Any theology book by Thomas Aquinas
Curl up in a blanket, grab some hot chocolate, and read about the eternality of God

>>19576716
Tom bombadil makes my cry tears of wonder, why isnt the lord of the rings taken seriously like the world litterature canon. I remember mentioning tolkien to my teacher, when he asked about authors or something, and people in my class started laughing at me. why is there this bias, just because its categorized as fantasy. I even feel this bias myself sometimes.

The Pearl. Until it wasn’t.

my struggle

>>19576782
>DQ
>comfy

i'm only a third of the way in but i was surprised at how violent he is, him and sancho assault and fucking maim people with serious, life-altering injuries on the regular. kind of a dickhead t.b.h.

>>19587093
loved it

>>19587279
The repetitive nature of these assholes' frequent attacks becomes a bit much and makes it difficult to go on. When does DQ start becoming good?

I guess you could grasp at straws and discuss how it is an illustration of how people can become "possessed" by ideas (demons) from books, like how marxist commies are today.

the levin chapters of anna karenina are peak comfy

>>19587333
oh no, sweaty, you won't last with that attitude.

King's The Shining. I don't know why, but it was so comfy that I once read it 3 times in a row. It wasn't the original english text though, it was a russian translation. I also tried other translations and they didn't have the same effect. Never read the original, not sure if my english is good enough.

>>19587333
>>19587279
They're fictional. No one was harmed in the making of this book. Do you get pissed off watching Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin? Maybe there's a surgery for being a humorless troglodyte?

>>19588304
>Hurr I don't identify with characters or events in fiction
Then why do you read it at all dipshit

>>19588321
Haha what kind of loser doesn't identify with the hero protagonist of a book? Your liberal guilt so strong you have to feel bad for people who don't even exist?

>>19579567
Macha'Allah brother.

>>19577391
THUNDERCATS ARE LOOSE

>>19576716
Blood Meridian

>>19578075
I have read many books I would consider extremely comfy, including a few posted in this thread, but have yet to find a book that captures the mix of pulp/epic/biography that Musashi did. Maybe it's due to the serialization. Any recs anon?

In no particular order, my comfiest books:
Journey to the West
Suttree
Annihilation
Cat's Cradle
Piranesi
The Name of the Rose
The Buried Giant
One Hundred Years of Solitude

>>19577045
Great post

>>19590877
>Piranesi
so fucking cozy man

>>19579567
based muslimbro.
how's Hamza Yusuf other books? I'm interested in Purification of the Heart