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Take a break from staring into the abyss and discuss comfy reads.

I've been reading Around the World in Eighty Days. I tried to read it as a child in English and didn't like it much, but reading it in French is certifiably comfy.

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the gambler

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The Housekeeper and the Professor

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Reposting

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You should read The Haunted Bookshop while smoking some Haunted Bookshop

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>>10849816
Anything by Murakami[\spoiler]

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Now this is the thread I have been waiting for. I became quite sick recently but it happened at an opportune time. My doctor set me up with a nice stash of opiates to get me through it all, so I've been doing pretty much nothing but /getting comfy/ at my parents' house, reading books, napping, and writing. At first it was pretty awful because I was legitimately sick, but now that I'm starting to feel better I think I will remember these days as some of the best of my entire life.

Marcus Aurelius' Meditations is a must-read for anyone interested in philosophy and living well generally. I've read that he enjoyed a bit of opium in his wine quite frequently as well. Definitely comfy.

For fiction, I always recommend Herman Hesse's Siddhartha and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. Both comfy for completely different reasons, though if you're here you've probably read and thoroughly enjoyed both.

Right now I'm REALLY enjoying "Mythology" by Edith Hamilton and Arabian Nights translated by Sir Richard Burton. I've always liked "classical" works but these two have been hitting the spot like none other in recent memory. Highly recommend both.

>>10850623

Never seen this before. Thanks. The titles I recognize are definitely comfy. Especially the Shakespeare selections.

Any of you guys aspiring to write /comfy/ literature in the future? I'd love to - I think it would be the perfect "4chan scene" some day in the future. Would be hilarious.

Any recs for /dark comfy/?