/lit/ - Literature

>>20277854
start with the greeks

>>20277854
The Secret History

Epictetus his discourses and other stoic stuff i find very comfy...

Dostoevsky

>>20277854
For me, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes books are peaky /comfy/. I read them while listening to Bach’s violin sonatas. They have a very /comfy/ aesthetic for my tastes.

>>20277908
especially when he tells me to stop lamenting and hang myself.

>>20277854
Dickens' "The Pickwick Papers"

Just some lads having a loaf and getting into comical antics in the surrounding London countryside

>>20277854
Don't know how accurate this chart is, picked it up from a thread a while back.

>>20277854
Anything comfy to recommend for a stay in the hospital? Things might not be looking too good bros

I really liked reading Verne's Around The World In 80 Days, really comfy.

I read the translation by Jacqueline Rogers.

>>20278009

I know it's not a novel, but Schulz's Peanuts always made me happy after reading a few strips.

And I really hope you get better soon anon. Hang in there

>>20277854
what is that apu pic supposed to be about?

>>20278070
he appears to be in heaven

>>20277854
Arsene Lupin
Although not all of the works with him as protagonist, Crystal Stopper for example is too intense.

>>20277854
i've read this more times than i can count or remember. during stressful times in my life i've read it in a single sitting and then just started the whole thing over again. the complete cosmicomics is also fantastic and very comfy, same with marcovaldo. i love calvino

>>20277854
Montaigne, Wordsworth, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman

>>20277854
Count of Monte Cristo. read it over christmas sipping red wine in my blanket on the armchair and it was comfy af

>>20277887
only book i've read in one sitting

>>20278001
everything on this chart I've read is very cozy

>>20278009
Post updates anon.

>>20277854
Swiss Family Robinson is peak comfy. Maybe even the comfiest.

>>20277854
Cannery Row

Italo Calvino is pretty comfy

>>20277887
Completely lost interest in this one halfway through.

Foundation, Ring World, Starship Troopers, Helsreach

Nothing is comfier than scifi schlock

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>>20277854
For me it's 20,000 Leagues under the sea

>driving to beach with recently married wife
>listen to Salems Lot on the way, get halfway through
>hang out with bros and chill on the beach
>drive back and listen to the rest
>Salem’s Lot is small town comfy with a bit of steven king creepiness, predictability, and unpredictability
>get back home before we finish the book
>lay in bed while its storming outside and listen to the rest

The Count of Monte Cristo
Anything by Jane Austen
And right now I'm reading pic related, a historical fiction book about an English sailor in 17th century Japan. It's really comfy.

>>20278009
get well soon anon. mason & dixon by pinecone is very comfy and long enough to last a few days in hospital

>>20277854
The Hobbit for me.

>>20278009
I a /sffag/ so I love Tolkien myself. Tintin comics are also great adventures. Hope things go alright for you anon and you enjoy reading about some long walks in the mean time.

>>20277854
Cannery Row, Speaker for the Dead, Tolkien's translation of Beowulf.

Cannery Row literally changed how I write. Wonderful voice and pace.

>>20277854
PG Wodehouse is peak comfy.

The Rings of Saturn

Grapes of Wrath

>>20280190
Loved Shogun so much. I wanted to take bathes and get massages everyday lol. Very comfy read OP

>>20277854
A lot of Steinbeck.
Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday, Travels with Charley.
Also the Count of Monte Cristo.

I'm reading Master and Commander atm and it's quite comfy although I wish it didn't skip over the details so much
Essays on Idleness and the Hojoki (despite the depressing topics)
Zhuangzi
Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit
Pride and Prejudice
A Robert K Massie Biography
Lots of books about ships