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12042524 No.12042524 [Reply] [Original]

What's the comfiest novel you've ever read?

>> No.12042542

>>12042524
The Horse and His Boy
Crónicas del Ángel Gris

>> No.12042550

>>12042524
Once and future king

>> No.12042581

>>12042524
Pnin

>> No.12042667

>>12042524
Possibly that. Or Murakami, I find all the books of his I've read to be very comfy.

>> No.12042674

>>12042524
Man, Ive tried reading this twice, each time I was sick so I never finished it.

>> No.12042683

>>12042524
I don't read novels because fiction is for women and children.

>> No.12042686

The Magic Mountain

>> No.12042709
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12042709

people who say "comfy" are nu-males

>> No.12042745

>>12042709
It's interesting that both men and women today are impersonating mid-century housewives in advertising. The women impersonate the fashion, the men impersonate the innocent, delighted surprise.

>> No.12043713

>>12042745
Mid century houswives wore athleisure all the time?

>> No.12044949

bump

>> No.12044950

what is the best italo calvino to get my feet wet if ive never read him?

>> No.12044960

The Hobbit

>> No.12045084

>>12042524
what a boring book.. italo calvino writes like he’s addressing a child all the time. This is literature for children.

>> No.12046155

>>12042524
You just posted it desu

>> No.12046477

The buried giant, first 200 pages are pure comfy.

>> No.12046484

>>12042524
La Bas
then Pickwick
then Mlle de Maupin

>> No.12046486
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12046486

>> No.12046491

>>12042524
The Baron in the Trees

>> No.12046495

>>12042524
The old man and the sea.

>> No.12046504

>>12042524
Anatol France passim.
ETA Hoffmann, same.

>> No.12046711

Most of Murakami's novels are pretty comfy.

>>12046486
I didn't find it comfy simply because I was frightened by how well he could put into words feelings I could never even imagine to describe.

Good taste though.

>> No.12046900

>>12042524
Shibumi

>> No.12047015

>>12044950
Read his short stories first, faggot.

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12047246

>comfy

>> No.12048735

>>12042524
Why do you consider this postmodern book "comfy"?

>> No.12048762

>>12042524
This is nice, especially that feeling when he's warming p to find a new manuscript so that you can settle into a chapter of fun for its own sake.

Marcovaldo is maybe even more on topic. They're such gentle stories.

>> No.12048955

Moravagine