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Comfy /lit/ Anonymous Thu Mar 11 08:26:00 2021 No.17753758 [Reply] [Original]

What is the most comfy book you've ever read? Anything that has made you feel warm and at home while reading. Really just want to feel something again.

Anonymous Thu Mar 11 11:25:43 2021 No.17755286

One of the comfiest that I've read in recent memory is Still Life with Woodpecker. It's a funny story about two people falling in love. There were some allusions to other literature, but you don't need to worry about those. Just a really fun read overall.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 11:27:14 2021 No.17755301 File: 342 KB, 535x801, meditationspeaks.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17753758

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 11:29:41 2021 No.17755324 >>17753758 Montaigne Essays Pensees (thought it was funny) Cioran books (funny) Thomas Bernhard books (funny)

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 11:32:53 2021 No.17755359 File: 61 KB, 600x900, the-fellowship-of-the-ring-book-cover-lotr-e1467420261966.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17753758

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 11:33:52 2021 No.17755372 File: 60 KB, 907x1360, 51J7WZjitpL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17753758

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 11:35:29 2021 No.17755391 The Magic Mountain - Mann

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 11:36:31 2021 No.17755407 >>17753758 How green was my valley.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 11:38:24 2021 No.17755419 File: 572 KB, 1764x2434, pinball cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Pinball by Murakami perfectly captured my mid 20s ennui in a very comfy way

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 11:40:29 2021 No.17755441 >>17755301 This but unironically lol.

Anonymous Thu Mar 11 12:08:48 2021 No.17755714

>>17753758
A Balcony in the forest
The adventurous heart
Life: a user's manual
Species of spaces
If by a winter night
Invisible cities
Marco Polo's Travels
The Life of Monsieur de Molière
The very lowly
Exercices in style
Char's poetry
Saint-John Perse's Eloges
La Fontaine's Fables

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 12:11:24 2021 No.17755741 File: 125 KB, 444x562, Ulysses.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17753758 Unironically pic related

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 12:13:29 2021 No.17755761 >>17755441 It was unironic, Evola telling about his mountaineering expeditions is extremely comfy.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 12:24:26 2021 No.17755850 >>17753758 Just about any of the early harry potter books before shit starts happening, it's just about living a crazy life and the shenanigans that happen along the way. Interacting with friends and the like

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 12:36:13 2021 No.17755959 >>17753758 East of Eden, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Richard II in an odd way, but thats only for anglos. also this>>17755359

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 12:37:23 2021 No.17755969 File: 2.57 MB, 4032x2553, 20210309_153702.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17753758 I have a shelf solely devoted to this

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 12:37:35 2021 No.17755971 >>17755301 >>17755761 Does he ramble about traditionalism a lot in this book or is it just about mountaineering? I don't like Evola's philosophy but I like his writing style

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 12:40:51 2021 No.17756002 >>17755959 this person is just like me and, therefore, undeniably based. >>17753758 Would recommend Cannery Row by Steinbeck and The Baron in the Trees by Calvino as well

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 12:41:02 2021 No.17756006 >>17755971 The title of the book can be read two ways, about half of the book is moutaineering, the other half philosophical and metaphysical essays about mountains/heights.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 12:50:19 2021 No.17756107 >>17753758 Unironically Harry Potter. It's been downhill for me from there.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 12:50:26 2021 No.17756109 >>17756002 based

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 12:51:55 2021 No.17756121 >>17753758 Catullus

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 13:04:49 2021 No.17756242 >>17753758 I like Jane Austen. It’s like a chic rom com but in the 18-19th century.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 15:19:37 2021 No.17757193 >>17755419 I'd also recommend Murakami. My picks would be Norwegian Wood or Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.

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Anonymous Thu Mar 11 18:46:38 2021 No.17758638
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Maybe because my grandmother read it to me when I was a kid, but I re-read this as a 30-something and was just generally awestruck by how comfy it was. Worn slippers, log fires, willow trees and a comfy blanket.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 19:15:32 2021 No.17758886 >>17757193 Have you read the wind up bird chronicle? Thinking about starting it

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 19:17:53 2021 No.17758903 File: 84 KB, 479x700, toll.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17753758 Phantom Tollbooth. Mix of nostalgia and children's book whimsy

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 19:19:21 2021 No.17758915 >>17755324 good list, whats the funniest bernhard?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 19:20:36 2021 No.17758927 poetics of space rings of saturn

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 20:30:40 2021 No.17759444 >>17755419 Murakami was my first thought upon entering this thread. Very comfy and nostalgic.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 20:31:40 2021 No.17759451 >>17753758 Comfiest I’ve ever been was reading Norwegian Wood in high school, read the entire thing in one sitting. Take me back bros...

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 20:32:12 2021 No.17759455 File: 39 KB, 314x500, 9F5C001B-CE74-4995-B8A5-2BCD5F33DA72.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Reminds me of Shenmue.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 20:35:44 2021 No.17759473 Thus Spoke Zarathustra is underratedly comfy The Motley Cow is my favourite fictional town.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 11 20:36:32 2021 No.17759477 File: 433 KB, 673x1273, Yeats On What's fascinating.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >book I prefer mediums that respect my time.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 01:03:46 2021 No.17761034 In search of lost time, Good soldier Svejk, Savage Detectives

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 01:13:25 2021 No.17761065 File: 167 KB, 1056x1072, 5E951D97-1544-4882-B1C2-48333E04B3F7.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Shadow of the torturer , constantly re-reading extremely comfy

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 01:21:51 2021 No.17761080 >>17759477 yes, i too prefer the satisfaction that comes with evacuating my bowels to all this 'difficult' stuff.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 01:25:13 2021 No.17761092 >>17753758 Max brooks World War Z was my favorite childhood book, so maybe that. But also both lord of the rings and the Welcome to Nightvale books have a sort of cozy feeling about them thats hard to describe other than comfy

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 01:56:10 2021 No.17761209 >>17753758 Stardust

Anonymous Fri Mar 12 03:37:42 2021 No.17761557

The Belgariad by David Eddings, The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper, The Silmarillion and Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien. For me, there's nothing more comfy than good childhood fantasy books.
On a good second place, there's Star Wars Expanded Universe shit like the Thrawn trilogy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 03:44:13 2021 No.17761582 File: 77 KB, 513x763, 2c529b8caf56d3658fdf7eb58d302d7b.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] throwback

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Anonymous Fri Mar 12 06:19:17 2021 No.17762197
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Perhaps it's not what everyone thinks of when they hear the word 'comfy', but V. always hits the spot for me. It's got a great mix of touching and funny scenes and the screwball hijinks remind me of the Tintin comics I loved as a kid.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 09:02:19 2021 No.17762902 >>17753758 The Hobbit Stoner No Easy Answers (not bc I wanted to shoot up my school, but Brooks describing his time with Dylan reminded me of my younger years and it for some reason made me feel good and nostalgic) the first three Harry Potter books

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 09:51:04 2021 No.17763216 >>17753758 robin hood, the three musketeers

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 10:08:05 2021 No.17763351 >>17761080 Sad.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 12:20:10 2021 No.17764344 File: 233 KB, 650x962, redwall.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17753758 Redwall

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 12:25:39 2021 No.17764375 >>17764344 Wrap it up, folks. Thread has a winner.

Anonymous Fri Mar 12 12:31:31 2021 No.17764419

>>17761065
>>17762197
I read both of these around the same time and they both gave me the same "comfy" feeling despite being very different in terms of style. The one thing they do have in common is a decadent setting, in BOTNS it's the dying and degenerate Commonwealth and in V. it's a combination of inter-war Europe and the post-war U.S. When people talk about being "comfy" online they're usually implying taking refuge in some kind of hostile environment - a cabin in the forest, an apartment in the big city, shelter from the rain, etc. If you look at it that way it makes sense that these two very different books both give off a "comfy" feeling. Both are about characters who are trying to seek shelter from a world that's gone to shit.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 13:44:14 2021 No.17764941 Little Women

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 13:56:25 2021 No.17765048 Winnie-the-Pooh.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 15:07:23 2021 No.17765610 Tom Jones

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 15:37:46 2021 No.17765808 >>17757193 I enjoyed Colorless Tsukuru... but it had some serious YA sensibilities. Plan to tackle Norwegian Wood soon.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 17:10:54 2021 No.17766514 >>17765048 El famoso

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 17:14:08 2021 No.17766555 >>17753758 Natsume Soseki - THE GATE

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 12 17:15:00 2021 No.17766561 little, big

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