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Anonymous Fri Nov 17 19:59:20 2017 No.10281966 [Reply] [Original]

Does /comfy/ slice of life exist in literature?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 20:05:40 2017 No.10281977 Could you please give an example, from another genre?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 20:08:54 2017 No.10281989 File: 330 KB, 600x960, productimage-picture-the-moon-and-the-bonfires-233_474876ff-943b-4b36-817b-6b7441e1ffa1_1024x1024.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 20:09:36 2017 No.10281990 >>10281966 Stoner by John Williams

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 20:10:14 2017 No.10281992 >>10281966 Sketches from a Hunter's Album

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 20:13:24 2017 No.10282000 File: 304 KB, 640x445, Akage-No-Anne.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Try reading children's literature like Anne of Green Gables

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 20:46:09 2017 No.10282112 Finn Family Moomintroll

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 20:50:52 2017 No.10282130 File: 22 KB, 220x309, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Depends on how you qualify literature, and whether that's compatible with your notion of comfort.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 20:53:00 2017 No.10282133 File: 2.54 MB, 1371x714, american empire3.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10281966 Turtledove has a lot of comfy slice of life in his books, like all the times Lucien Galtier talks to his horse in the Southern Victory.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 20:53:36 2017 No.10282134 >>10281966 Winesburg, Ohio Dubliners Nine Stories Mrs Dalloway To the Lighthouse Catcher in the Rye Giovanni's Room Ulysses most NYRB's

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 21:01:08 2017 No.10282153 >>10282000 >tfw no anne gf

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 21:08:11 2017 No.10282178 File: 59 KB, 416x539, wind_in_the_willows_2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Wind in the Willows

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 22:48:32 2017 No.10282476 The lost estate

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 22:58:22 2017 No.10282496 Don't misunderstand me, I'm not advocating vigilantism. What I'm saying is that the government should lawfully round up and lawfully execute people who use the terms "slice of life", "world building", and "magic system".

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 22:59:58 2017 No.10282502 >>10282496 Give OP some slack, he's still deriving interest from anime and as of yet lacks the intelligence needed to avoid such tropes

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 23:00:56 2017 No.10282505 Anything by Dostoevsky is comfy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 23:10:18 2017 No.10282528 Sherlock Holmes stories are extremely comfy light reading

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 23:11:34 2017 No.10282530 >>10282502 >tropes You lost, faggot.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 23:13:28 2017 No.10282535 File: 77 KB, 355x236, geoffmagnum.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10282153 iktfb

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 23:13:31 2017 No.10282536 >>10282130 OP here, It doesn't even have to be literature per se. I'm fine with any fiction (literary or otherwise) of written form.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 23:15:43 2017 No.10282542 >>10282536 Then play visual novels.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 23:24:34 2017 No.10282578 >>10282542 Any in particular you'd recommend?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 23:24:49 2017 No.10282579 >>10282542 I'll also add that I'd prefer them to be in English. If I wanted visual novel recommendations I'd be posting on /a/, /wsr/ or /jp/.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 23:25:37 2017 No.10282580 >>10281966 Maybe pastoral poetry?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 23:32:43 2017 No.10282601 >>10282578 Anything by Key. Little Busters just got released on Steam. >>10282579 The only somewhat decent visual novel that was originally written in English that I'm aware of is Katawa Shoujo.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 17 23:33:50 2017 No.10282604 >>10282578 yeah Killa Yourselfaru Fukinplebioo its pretty good

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 18 05:01:05 2017 No.10283209 bump

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 18 10:14:54 2017 No.10283939 >>10282496 Nothing wrong with world building

Anonymous Sat Nov 18 13:44:25 2017 No.10284622
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>>10281966
Literally Infinite Jest.
It invokes that comfy feel of nostalgia for the late 90's/early 00's. Take your time with it, no need to rush, I read it slowly over every summer.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 18 14:25:30 2017 No.10284734 >>10282496 kek and also agreed

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 18 14:30:31 2017 No.10284750 >>10281966 Comfiness is subjective, anon. For me comfy lit is Tolkien and anything about someone being cast away on an island (Robinson Crusoe, The Mysterious Island, Lord of the Flies).

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 18 14:45:19 2017 No.10284812 File: 73 KB, 247x200, 1449460204632.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10282000 >>10282153 >tfw you will never be Anne's kindred spirit. JDIMSA

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 18 23:29:50 2017 No.10286461 >>10284750 Everything is subjective, anon. I'm asking for your personal opinion on what's /comfy/.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 18 23:41:30 2017 No.10286491 >>10282578 Subarashiki Hibi It's very cute and fun

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 18 23:49:42 2017 No.10286513 >>10286491 Idk If you are trolling, or if you only read the first chapter. But in either case, Suba Hibi is probably one of the best VNs around.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 19 09:44:37 2017 No.10288018 File: 28 KB, 355x500, 81414.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10281966 Children's books tend to be very comfy

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 19 10:14:49 2017 No.10288096 >>10281966 imho moby dick

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 19 10:21:57 2017 No.10288129 File: 34 KB, 214x346, 51ZSNNHX4VL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Either pic related or The Rings of Saturn

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