Comfy-core /lit/

[Anonymous No.14360618]

I’m 40 pages into Buddenbrooks and it’s literally the comfiest thing I’ve ever read.
Has anyone here read it?
Also, post your comfiest reads

[Anonymous No.14360670]

>>14360618
I’m interested in comfy reads, so I’ll look into it thanks. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship would be good for you if you haven’t read it. Great, comfy German lit.

[Anonymous No.14360683]

>>14360670
The Carlyle translation?

[Anonymous No.14360694]

>>14360683
No the Blackall if you can get it. It’s in the Essential Goethe as well as the one put out by Princeton. Carlyle is ok but he takes too many liberties.

[Anonymous No.14360700]

>>14360694
Thanks. I had been meaning to read this but seemingly all of the public domain sites only have vol 1 of Carlyle.

[Anonymous No.14361061]

>>14360618
I’ve went to visit Lubeck before just because of Buddenbrooks while I was in Germany. It never actually comes out and says that it is Lubeck in the book but it apparently can be inferred due to a variety of factors, like it being a port city. Amazingly comfy and more traditionally German place, especially compared to something more modern, that is to say more American, like Hamburg or Frankfurt

[Anonymous No.14361140]

>>14360618
Montaigne is probably the most comfy author I've ever read

[Anonymous No.14361148]

>>14361140
Most French authors are comfy in general.

[Anonymous No.14361185]

I'm only one chapter into Growth of the Soil but it's already one of my comfiest reads of the year

[Anonymous No.14361323]

>>14360618
Un taxi mauve
Un rude hiver
Kim
Montaigne's essais
Le rivage des syrtes (the opposing shore or something in english)
hamsun's vagabond trilogy
Un hussard sur le toit / le chant du monde
I can't think of many more right now, sorry for the overwhelming french lit
Oh yeah and don quixote of course

[Anonymous No.14361370]

>>14360618
this is probably a cringey and gay question but is there a literary equivalent to slice of life anime? just anything with that general feel of childish wonder, lazy carefree days, focus on character definitions rather than growth or plot, etc

[Anonymous No.14361546]

>>14361370
This sounds great, actually. I can't think of anything like that though.

[Anonymous No.14361571]

>>14361370
>slice of life anime
What you are describing is Iyashikei.
Many picture books are like this. For example, Jill LaMarche's The Raft, Kevin Henke's All Alone, Gerda Muller's How Does My Garden Grow, and much more. I could go on if interested.

[Anonymous No.14361576]

Brideshead Revisited kind of fits

[Anonymous No.14361580]

>>14361370
>slice of life anime
What you are describing is Iyashikei.
Many picture books are like this. For example, Jim* LaMarche's The Raft, Kevin Henke's All Alone, Gerda Muller's How Does My Garden Grow, and much more. I could go on if interested.

[Anonymous No.14361595]

>>14361370
maybe knausgård, maybe not

[Anonymous No.14361676]

>>14361370
I can also give you a list of my favorite Iyashikei anime. For example, Sketchbook Full Color's is amazing, but it tends to be underrated compared to other good titles like Yuru Camp.

[Anonymous No.14361694]

>>14360618

That dinner scene at the beginning had some top tier descriptions and actually made me feel like I was part of the evening. Can't go wrong with either Szerb or Keates for comfy.

[Anonymous No.14361698]

>>14361148
Even Descartes is comfy.

[Anonymous No.14361709]

>>14361694
>dinner scene at the beginning
It's really a superb bit of writing, as good as Joyce's dinner in The Dead. Though OP is in for a shock if he expects the whole book to maintain the same comfy levels.

[Anonymous No.14361907]

>>14361061
Central 'beck is fine, but take a five minute walk the way of the affordable housing and it's nothing special at all. You'll get a better home in Potsdam or Leipzig.

[Anonymous No.14361913]

>>14361576
Good book that, but the sliciest lifiest stuff is frontloaded.

[Anonymous No.14361919]

>>14361676
my favs, in order:
>hakumei to mikochi
>yuru camp
>non non biyori
>ichigo mashimaro
>azumanga daioh
>kon
>hidamari sketch
>usagi drop
>machikado mazoku

[Anonymous No.14361954]

>>14361919
My opinions on each with my own additional recommendations:
>hakumei to mikochi
Felt a bit flat. Didn't like it as much as others, though the first episode was very nice.
>Yuru Camp
Very good.
>Non Non Biyori
Ok, but I dislike the subtle yuri elements present in a very few episodes.
>ichigo mashimaro
Looks retarded.
>azumanga daioh
Complete trash.
>K-On!
Haven't seen it. I don't have much personal interest in music.
>hidamari sketch
Utter ADHD trash compared to Sketchbook: Full Color's
>usagi drop
Filth. Utter filth. Even though the anime adaptation largely removed the pedophiliac undertones of the manga, it is still largely filth.
>machikado mazoku
Looks like weeb trash.

You have shit tastes. I really, really detest your mind. I can even feel the bile bubbling on the surface of your mind. Here are some better recommendations:

>Shirokuma Cafe (my favorite)
>Encouragement of Climb (glad it has no Yuri elements)
>Rilakkuma and Kaoru
>Flying Witch
>Okoshiyasu, Chitose-chan
>Binchou-Tan (magical realist elements, no degeneracy)

Get better tastes, you stupid subhuman trash. Stop seeking to subvert wholesome media with yuri, ADHD shenanigans, and other filth. I would crush your fucking skull and flay your skin and hang it on the wall in remembrance of ridding this world of plague like you.

[Anonymous No.14362250]

I find Street of Crocodiles by Shulz to be very comfy and dreamy. It’s short but compulsively readable

[Anonymous No.14362976]

>>14360618
Mann was a paedophile

[Anonymous No.14363288]

Haven't read Buddenbrooks, but I thought the same thing about Mann's Zauberberg. Have you read that one too? Is Buddenbroos really more comfy?

[Anonymous No.14363319]

>>14360618
Jack London's Klondike Stories, especially in the wintertime.

[Anonymous No.14363360]

>>14361370
Maybe something by Astrid Lindgren?

[Anonymous No.14363390]

[Anonymous No.14363413]

>>14361370
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland + Through the Looking-Glass?
It does't really have a cohesive plot, but it's got a lot of childlike wonder from Alice herself (who is only eight years old). She's also very carefree.

[Anonymous No.14363421]

>>14360618
It's a slightly sad read, but it's good and in some ways comfy.

[Anonymous No.14363549]

>>14361954
Also add Barakamon to my list. I forgot to mention it, but it's very good Iyashikei. It has no loli, pedophilia, or anything like that. I am very careful about avoiding that stuff.

[Anonymous No.14364559]

>>14361954
Getting high and mighty over weeb shit. Fucking McKill yourself

[Anonymous No.14364576]

>>14364559
>weeb shit
It's only weeb shit when it A) contains a lot of subversive undertones like incest, pedophile, etc. where it doesn't belong, B) has annoying and rapid pacing with endless chibi expressions.

The idea that all anime is weeb-shit is equivalent to saying all sequential art, video games, art-house films, and etc. are shit too.

[Anonymous No.14364860]

>>14360618
>comforts your path

[Anonymous No.14364923]

>>14360618
What makes if comfy? My comfy books are murder mysteries/trashy horror novels from the 70s/80s.

[Anonymous No.14365146]

>>14364860
>mfw after 1200 pages it ends on the 'mention the title' meme

[Anonymous No.14365242]

>>14361370
The secret garden is one of the coziest reads I've come across. I wish I could find more like it.

[Anonymous No.14365265]

>>14361370
tove janssons "summers book" is exactly what you wrote

[Anonymous No.14365334]

>>14365146
That was actually the only time the trope was done right tho

[Anonymous No.14365364]

>>14365334
Yeah, it does work with the biblical setting and the language he's used throughout. But don't tell me you didn't have a little giggle when you got to it

[Anonymous No.14365511]

>>14363288
Magic Mountain was top tier comfy. All those descriptions of food and being wrapped in blankets. Buddenbrooks didn’t really inspire that same feeling for me

[Anonymous No.14365512]

>>14362250
Seconding this

[Anonymous No.14365516]

>>14361140
Reading Montaigne feels like having a conversation over a few drinks with a knowledgeable person. Top tier mane

[Anonymous No.14365576]

>>14365364
Oh yeah it was definitely cheeky. Like a well-timed shitpost

[Anonymous No.14365782]

>>14360618

[Anonymous No.14365905]

H. Hesse Glass Bead Game is comfy in a way like Magic Mountain and Buddenbrooks

[Anonymous No.14365944]

>>14360618
I've seen pic related compared to Buddenbrooks a few times. It's definitely a relaxing novel for the most part

[Anonymous No.14365966]

>>14365782
merci

[Anonymous No.14366171]

>>14361323
Based and Hussardpilled

[Anonymous No.14366219]

Count of Monte Cristo is the comfiest book I've ever read, I love how though the book is so vast it isn't intimidating to read in the slightest, and sucks you right in.

[Anonymous No.14366402]

>>14361954
>calling azumanga trash on 4chan of all places

[Anonymous No.14366411]

>>14363549
All I remember from that is wanting to fuck the tomboy

[Anonymous No.14366436]

Can someone explain what comfy literature is? I'm seeing a lot of stuff here that doesn't really seem comfy...

[Anonymous No.14366442]

This one is gigacomfy.
I'm looking for comfy novels or short story collections from France, Spain, Italy and Portugal, preferable from before the year 2000.

[Anonymous No.14366474]

>>14366436
Good descriptions; no gore, murders or too much violence; normal problems; mundane realism with characters doing things normal people do everyday; something that isn't hard to read and slow pace.

[Anonymous No.14366513]

>>14366474
But the odyssey is in that comfy chart.

[Anonymous No.14366712]

I'm tasked with giving a christmas gift to a Chinese girl, and I figured a book would be a good choice.

Any suggestions?

[Anonymous No.14366801]

>>14366712

I've already decided.

[Anonymous No.14366816]

>>14366712
Elliot Rodger - My Twisted World

[Anonymous No.14366830]

>>14366513
The fucking food and feasting scenes are ridic though in the Odyssey, and island hopping (though perilous) strikes me as something imaginatively comfy

The chart is also spot on with Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale and As You Like It

[Anonymous No.14367571]

>>14365265
Quoting an anon who is right.

>>14366442
All Modiano and Pagnol. Gemini by Tournier.

[Anonymous No.14367620]

>>14361954
Bruh how do you dislike Azumanga

[Anonymous No.14369044]

>>14364923
It’s a tragedy, but it’s comfy because it’s about a family in 19th century German and Just about their lives and Mann has great descriptions of things, especially food.

[Anonymous No.14369065]

>>14360618
Proust is the comfiest there is

[Anonymous No.14369101]

[Anonymous No.14370293]

>>14365905
This

[Anonymous No.14370298]

>>14369101
Seconded

[Anonymous No.14370302]

[Anonymous No.14370416]

Whats some good comfy detective stories?

[Anonymous No.14370778]

>>14370416
Father Brown. Very much the thinking man's Sherlock

[Anonymous No.14371902]

>>14370778
The show is comfy too.

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[Anonymous No.14372762]

>>14369065
It is but frankly I fail to see how the Swann in Love section and some traumatizing parts of The Guermantes Way and the paranoia of The Prisoner/Fugitive could be considered so. They’re actually more devastating than normal because of how well written they are with a psychological edge

[Anonymous No.14372798]

>>14372762
Verdurins and Odette's room are some of the loveliest locations described, and Swann outside her house in the night is also an attractive setting. I'll give you volumes 5/6 though, Venice aside it's awful heavy.

[Anonymous No.14372971]

>>14365782
my nigga

[Anonymous No.14372971,1]

>>14361954
opinion discarded