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Anonymous Wed Jul 6 08:31:22 2022 No.20636752 [Reply] [Original]

What is THE comfy book for you?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 08:35:46 2022 No.20636764 Game of thrones

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 08:38:41 2022 No.20636771 Hobbit, most Sherlock Holmes

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 08:44:28 2022 No.20636797 The Count of Monte Cristo

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 08:49:00 2022 No.20636811 >>20636752 the first few chapters of siddhartha

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 08:51:04 2022 No.20636817 >>20636752 The Lost World (Crichton)

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 08:57:17 2022 No.20636829 >>20636752 whats some orientalist lit?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 09:00:48 2022 No.20636842 Fifty-One Tales by Lord Dunsany

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 09:09:21 2022 No.20636865 >>20636752 Beneath the wheel by Hesse

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 13:14:53 2022 No.20637535 >>20636797 why?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 13:16:19 2022 No.20637539 >>20636752 I posted it on another thread just now. Cannery Row by Steinbeck. You’ll get it if you read it. It’s great.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 13:25:21 2022 No.20637573 >>20636797 same

Anonymous Wed Jul 6 13:44:49 2022 No.20637635

>>20636752
>Top 5 Comfy Reads
5. The Tar-Aiym Krang, Alan Dean Foster
4. Zanthadon Omnibus, Lin Carter
3. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
2. John Carter/Barsoom Trilogy (A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars & Warlord of Mars), Edgar Rice Burroughs
1. The Hunter, Richard Stark

Though I'd consider pretty much anything by any of these authors as a comfy read. They all have writings styles I enjoy reading and consistently tell interesting stories.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 14:30:12 2022 No.20637812 >>20636752 Treasure Island. Luv me cozy read.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 15:43:27 2022 No.20638130 File: 1.48 MB, 1724x3701, 1558991910805.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20636752

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 16:15:40 2022 No.20638306 >>20637812 Based and Silverpilled. For me, it's Treasure Island or The Sun Also Rises.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 16:15:59 2022 No.20638309 >>20636752 The "Raptors in the Rainforest" fanfic series. I'm not sorry.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 18:57:46 2022 No.20638919 >>20637535 For me it's the Abbe Fraia

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 20:00:18 2022 No.20639196 Fictions, Borges.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 20:24:32 2022 No.20639301 The Sound of Waves, the Vintage version with the tan background and grey fish on the cover.

Anonymous Wed Jul 6 20:36:25 2022 No.20639345
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"Don Quixote" by Cervantes

"The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War" by Hasek

The Trilogy by Sienkiewicz: "With Fire and Sword", "The Deluge", "Fire in the Steppe" ("Colonel Wolodyjowski" is a better translation imo)

The d'Artagnan Romances by Dumas: "The Three Musketeers", "Twenty Years After", "The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later"

The Witcher series by Sapkowski but I strongly prefer Short Stories over the Saga

Discworld series by Pratchett but mostly early ones. I am reading "Guards!Guards!" in original and need to say that Polish translation was amazing.

I am big fan of swashbuckler films and picaresque novels (not sure of translation, in polish it's "literatura sowizdrzalska" https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literatura_sowizdrzalska)) or with element of it. I like magic realizm elements and this american republican modernism in culture

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 23:37:53 2022 No.20640146 Herodotus

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 6 23:40:39 2022 No.20640153 Anna Karenina luv me some Levin

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 00:00:38 2022 No.20640226 >>20636764 fpbp

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 00:05:58 2022 No.20640249 >>20636771 Yep, it'll always be The Hobbit for me.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 00:06:57 2022 No.20640252 >>20640153 Lit’s Mary Sue wish fulfillment

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 00:10:19 2022 No.20640259 >>20636752 Nietzsche's writings. I just return to them every time.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 03:34:51 2022 No.20640815 >>20636752 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B4M98NTH

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 03:44:36 2022 No.20640842 Esopo's fables.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 03:55:54 2022 No.20640872 >>20637812 Based, same here.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 04:02:55 2022 No.20640907 >>20637812 It's what got me into nautical fiction. So many great sailing/adventure books written in the 19th century.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 04:16:03 2022 No.20640940 File: 320 KB, 1399x2132, wuthering-heights-9781471137266_hr.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Simple as.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 05:50:33 2022 No.20641212 >>20636752 Wind in the Willows

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 06:00:58 2022 No.20641235 >>20640940 Best thing about this book is that is not comfy by any means. Stakes are high, suffering is ever-present and everybody dies. That makes Emily stand high above her sludge-sisters and mediocrity which is 19th century British novel.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 07:07:08 2022 No.20641397 1984

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 07:26:12 2022 No.20641446 >>20636752 Dracula

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 07:39:29 2022 No.20641462 >>20636752 I think a better question I would like to ask is what makes a book comfy to you?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 07:49:23 2022 No.20641483 For Whom the Bell Tolls. I expected a book mostly about the Spanish Civil War, not a book mostly about a bunch of people in a cave doing nothing in particular and sharing stories of their experiences in the war with each other.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 07:53:23 2022 No.20641495

>>20639345
>The d'Artagnan Romances by Dumas: "The Three Musketeers", "Twenty Years After", "The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later"
>The Witcher series by Sapkowski but I strongly prefer Short Stories over the Saga
same, if people talk about witcher books, i tell them to read short stories only

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 07:53:40 2022 No.20641496 >>20639345 Polish lit looks pretty fun. Where do I start?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 07:57:23 2022 No.20641504 >>20636752 Catch-22

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 08:02:44 2022 No.20641513 >>20636752 The Road

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 08:07:59 2022 No.20641518 File: 148 KB, 678x900, 94E274EE-DC61-4ACC-B503-499B776F1329.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20636752 Idylls of the King

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 08:46:06 2022 No.20641597 I am not very well read but for me its Whatever's Houellebecq

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 08:47:40 2022 No.20641600 >>20641496 it's all about translation in most cases. The best way is to start with something similar you know and like. What do you like? Poems, noveles? What kind of it? Any specific generes?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 09:49:06 2022 No.20641720 W O D E H O U S E

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 11:15:26 2022 No.20641913 >>20636865 patrician taste

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 11:23:25 2022 No.20641931 >>20636752 Ecclesiastes.

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 11:37:20 2022 No.20641962

Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
Essays in Idleness and Hojoki
Zhuangzi
The Pillow Book
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
Letters on England Voltaire
Dubliners
Foucault's Pendulum
The Name of the Rose
Pride and Prejudice

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 11:40:31 2022 No.20641968 Anna Karennina but only the parts where Levin is just farmin'

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 11:46:30 2022 No.20641973 >>20636752 Moravagine and Invisible Cities

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 12:00:42 2022 No.20641996 >>20636752 Too many to list all. A few are Montaigne’s Essays, Emerson’s Essays, A Sportsman’s Notebook, Hemingway’s short stories, The Magic Mountain, and Jane Eyre

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 16:20:32 2022 No.20642777 >>20639345 >magical realism how would you rate 100 years of solitude? as a comfy read?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 19:16:21 2022 No.20643532 >>20636829 The Shogun and The Tai-Pan by James Clavel

Anonymous Thu Jul 7 23:14:20 2022 No.20644566

>>20641235
I love it for the tragic lives of Heathcliff, the Lintons, and Earnshaws. And the unrequited love between Cathy and Heathcliff, which grows more like a horror novel than a romance. So no, not comfy, but it adds up to make the ending with the children getting married and leaving wuthering heights behind too sweet.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 23:15:42 2022 No.20644575 >>20636752 Anne of Green Gables

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 7 23:21:41 2022 No.20644601 Tess of the D'Urbevilles

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 8 00:34:58 2022 No.20644876 suttree

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 8 08:03:02 2022 No.20646463 >>20636752 Game of thrones.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 8 11:20:14 2022 No.20646966 >>20636752 Casanova's memoirs. Nothing better than reading them while travelling.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 8 11:50:50 2022 No.20647065 >>20641996 Yes to all but the last two, for Jane Eyre I'd substitute Aurora Leigh

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 8 11:53:46 2022 No.20647077 >>20641518 Based. Truly comfy. Wish it was longer. For me, Kipling's Kim. Perhaps Kipling and Stevenson in general.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 8 11:58:47 2022 No.20647092 >>20646966 I'll actually give this a go; I did something similar with Pepys, who, though comfy, was not as comfy as Boswell's Journals or his Life of Samuel Johnson

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 8 15:49:53 2022 No.20647860 >>20636752 The Hobbit Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 8 16:36:54 2022 No.20647990 >>20636752 Neville Goddard Complete Collection

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 8 22:17:44 2022 No.20649334 >>20641962 nothing in this list is comfy

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 8 22:19:46 2022 No.20649351 >>20636797 uber comfy. read it over christmas and was super

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 8 22:21:17 2022 No.20649355 >>20640153 it's my fav book but i wouldn't say the whole book is that comfy. the Levin chapters are however as you say extremely comfy and based

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 8 22:50:33 2022 No.20649437 >>20636752 Lost Horizon

Anonymous Fri Jul 8 23:01:21 2022 No.20649464

>>20639345
>Our tastes almost exactly match
Are you my long lost twin?
>>20636752
The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle is the most comfy book I've read. I frequently go back to it. It's honestly easier to name comfy authors. Walter Scott, H. Rider Haggard, Jules Verne, C.S. Forrester, Patrick O'Brian, Alexandre Dumas, Emilio Salgari, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ian Fleming, Edmond Rostand, Victor Hugo, Rafael Sabatini, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Edmund Spenser, Ossian, Bernard Cornwell, Fritz Leiber, Lord Dunsany, E.R. Eddison, Voltaire, E.T.A. Hoffmann, William Morris, Lewis Carroll, Mervyn Peake, Giacomo Casanova, Alexander Pope, Alfred de Musset, Theophile Gautier, Marcel Proust, Joris-Karl Huysmans, John Keats, Lord Byron, Adam Mickiewicz, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Honore de Balzac, and Maurice Druon

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 8 23:08:21 2022 No.20649482 Mason and Dixon >peak comfy framing device of a home in midwinter bustling with family >friendship of mason and dixon in the story proper

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