Autumn Approaches

[Anonymous No.11685434]

What do you plan on reading this upcoming autumn season, friends? It’s the comfiest time of year.

[Anonymous No.11685467]

Honestly, Black-American Literature...Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin

[Anonymous No.11685658]

>>11685434
>comfiest

I agree. I feel like I get so much more done during this period of the year.

I going to finish reading LOTR for the first time; the Illiad; an collection of Pope; Pessoa; Marquez; and then double down on more Germanic works, such as Anglo-Saxon poetry, the Edda, and some more Browning.

[Anonymous No.11685735]

>tfw no gf to go on comfy autumn hikes with and wear sweaters and drink hot cocoa and shit with
when will this cruel ride finally end?

[Anonymous No.11685739]

Deleuze

[Anonymous No.11685751]

>>11685735
Have you asked someone out yet?

[Anonymous No.11685758]

>>11685751
i don't even have a single friend. baby steps

[Anonymous No.11685772]

>>11685434
Deleuze

[Anonymous No.11685801]

>>11685758
Well, good luck out there, anon!

[Anonymous No.11685812]

>>11685658
I've been reading through LOTR for the first time too. Haven't seen the films either.

[sauce(dead)pan No.11685816]

>>11685801
Thanks.

[Anonymous No.11685889]

Mostly bongs
Tess
The House On the Borderland
Some M. R. James short stories

And one by a bongish potato
The Picture of Dorian Gray

[Anonymous No.11685983]

>>11685735

Friendly reminder that this can be achieved for 99% of people here. Get out of your comfort zone, make an effort on your hygiene and try to meet women. You will face a lot of rejection, but you need to persist through the suffering, and keep trying.

Fair heart never won fair maiden, and fortune favors the bold

[Anonymous No.11686027]

>>11685735
We''re going to make it brother.

[Anonymous No.11686028]

>>11685434
Deleuze's comfy sweaters

[Anonymous No.11686035]

>>11685658
>>11685812
I haven't seen any of the films either, but I've seen enough memes and images that it has taken me out of the world a little.

What are your thoughts on the series? I find Tolkein's prose too dry, and lacking poetry (that is to say, I want more purple in my prose; the poems which exist in the work are okay -- very few have I thought were 'good'). I do appreciate the fact that he shuns a lot of the Greco-Latinate vocabulary that has slowly crept into English for hearty Anglosaxon words.

>>11685983
Hygiene is big. There is a joke which runs:
>'Why did you date him'
>'He's clean and nice. That's all a woman needs'
>Clean and nice! That's all you need!? Damn, man, standards have gotten so low!

At the least, be clean and nice, and you'll get a girl. To have choices you need another attribute (charm, intelligence, physique, money.etc).

>persist through the suffering
Bitter words with sweet consequences.

[Anonymous No.11686046]

>>11686028

[Anonymous No.11686050]

>>11686046

[Rhodes !LAJJPW3TaY No.11686063]

>>11685434
Some comfy fiction.
I still have to decide.

[Anonymous No.11686072]

>>11686050
Cut your fucking nails, Jesus Christ.

[Anonymous No.11686074]

>>11685434
Wuthering Heights and a russian classic, probably The Idiot, among others.

[Anonymous No.11686135]

>>11685434
Middlemarch by George Eliot, it's really comfy so far, but I just started. Something about the upper class in the Victorian Era was super comfy

[Anonymous No.11686504]

>>11685434
>>11685658
>>11686063
>comfy
sure, if you never leave your room

[Anonymous No.11686575]

>>11686504
Au contraire mon frere, outside is where all the comfy is. Do you not own any warm clothes?

>>11685434
Moomin books are obligatory autumn reading. They're the perfect blend of comfy and melancholy.

[Anonymous No.11687861]

>>11686504
Nah, man. I hate the summer heat; the snow of the winter can be troublesome; yet, the coolness of spring with the promise of summer, and the coolness of autumn with its graceful decay remain for me the best to walk, to read, and to drink whiskey with friends.

[Anonymous No.11688871]

My annual rereads:
Moby Dick (I usually read this every summer but I was busy putting in extra hours at my new job.)
JR
The Recognitions (usually reserve this for mid-December, but I've been itching to reread it since I dropped it halfway through January)
Gargantua and Pantagruel (I'm going to revisit the Urquhart translation for the first time since I was 16; I've already read Frame's, Cohen's and Screech's)
Don Quixote Part 2 (I usually read the whole thing in the Spring, but I took too long to read Part 1 in April and spent the rest of Spring reading Boccaccio for the first time)
I also spent the first half of the year slowly reading through Emerson's essays as well as Hawthorne and Poe's complete stories, so it'll be fun to revisit some of my favourites.

[Anonymous No.11688882]

>>11685467
Nice. I like those authors.

[Anonymous No.11689033]

Bump because I like this thread, it's comfy

[Anonymous No.11689645]

Is Ivanhoe comfy?

[Anonymous No.11689650]

>>11685434
Several books by Nabokov and maybe Proust.

[Anonymous No.11690046]

>>11685658
>>11689645
Shoot! I forgot about Ivanhoe. I have to add that to my list as well as Song of Roland.

[Anonymous No.11690071]

>>11689645
Exceedingly Comfy

[Anonymous No.11690100]

Some short stories of ghosts by dickens, Frankenstein, billiards of half past 9

[Anonymous No.11690359]

Wuthering Heights
The Turn of the Screw
Faust
The Magic Mountain
Dubliners