/lit/ - Literature

The hobbit

>>11658756
Not a book and maybe a different kind of comfy, but read The Man of the Crowd by Poe

>>11658756
Typhoon

>>11658756
Its a childrens book and most people dont know it but I have very warm memories of this book series. Sneaking around the town at night, solving mysteries and avoiding grown-ups

>>11658756
Three men in a boat. Made me want to row down a river with some beer and pork pies and a dog in the prow.

>>11658756
I haven’t personally read any of it, but have heard Calvino fits this category perfectly.

>>11658756
I found The Return of the Native very comfy. Mainly the bonfires on the moorland for Guy Fawkes night and the mummers’ play at the Christmas party.

Parts of A Sportsman’s Sketches by Turgenev were very comfy. I keep forgetting the title of the story but the one where the narrator gets lost and winds up finding the campfire of some peasant kids taking the village’s horses out to pasture overnight. Nothing much happens, he just listens to the kids telling each other ghost stories by the campfire. Very comfy.

The Steppe by Chekhov was another story where not much happens - a gentry kid takes a cross country trip with a group of peasants - but maximum comfy.

>>11658756
Siddhartha

>>11658762
Hells yeah

>>11658762
Tolkien wrote it with his children in mind, so yeah, it is meant to be comfy.

>>11658979
are you implying that that's a bad thing?

>>11658983
Not at all, quite the opposite.

norwegian wood
i know it's all about suicide and stuff but I found it very comfy

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

>>11658756
>The book that filled you with a comfy feeling of warmth, like meandering through a forest in late autumn, surrounded by warm earthly colors, with your hands firmly in your wool pocket, and grandpas’ scarf graciously engulfing your neck. Or; at night, watching the snow gently fall outside. Meanwhile your covered in a comfortable blanket, seated in front of the fireplace, coffee in one hand, book in the other
Pickwick Papers is perfect for both of these, and is the ultimate comfy read

>>11658756
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

>>11658756
the beginning of mason & dixon, the beginning of moby-dick, oedipus at colonus, the decameron, robinson crusoe, list goes on...

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.

Also 'Invisible cities'.

>>11659416
>the beginning of moby-dick
That part where they're searching for an inn is cozy.

>>11658756
*comforts my path*
I want to go back. I want to erase it from my memory and do it all over again.

Walden

>>11658979
And it succeeds marvelously.

This book is comfy as comfy gets. Pour yourself some fuckin eggnog and read this shit right now.

It's a simple tale taking place in an Alpine village some time ago, of a brother and sister who are young kids who wish to visit their relatives on the other side of a mountain for Christmas Eve.
They brave the trek but a storm comes in, sparking off a wild crisis and spiritual rebirth in these kids as their sibling affection and love helps them see through the night as a heavenly fireworks display plays out in the storm wracked sky and the glittering snow and ice-bedecked surroundings.

>>11658756
After Waterloo; reminiscence of European travel by Major W. E. Frye.

Basically he was an English gentleman who traveled around Europe between 1815 and 1819 and wrote about it. Nothing really happens, but everything is enveloped in this sort of cultured urbanity which makes the whole book pleasant to read. One example is this anecdote which I'm relating from memory where he's confronted by a Germay border guard:

(Entire exchange in German)
Border guard: Are you a German?
Major Frye: No, I'm an Englishman.
Border guard: I don't believe you. You answer our questions in German very well.
Major Frye: That's because all you border guards keep asking me the same questions.

That kind of thing.

>>11658756
Christopher Morley- Parnassus on Wheels, The Haunted Book Shop, Thunder on the Left. David Garnett- Aspects of Love, Go She Must. Anthony Powell- Venusburg. Hillaire Belloc- The Haunted House. A. J. Liebling- Mollie and other War Pieces, The Honest Rainmaker. Nancy Mitford- literally any book by her, history or fiction, but I especially like her books on Frederick the Great and Madam de Pompadore. Charles Dickens- Pickwick Papers. William Makepeace Thackery- Barry Lyndon. Anatole France- Penguin Island, At the Sign of the Reine Pedauque.

>>11659481
What's so good about it, bitch boy?

>>11658756

> Or; at night, watching the snow gently fall outside.

God that description made me feel depressed. I haven't felt that comfy since the first year of university which was almost a decade ago now. Why is life full of trivialities and why do I seek to combat those trivialities with wisdom. :'(

>>11659766

As for an actual answer, The Magic Mountain.

>>11659766
This life is not out of reach. Take a step back. A thousand if necessary.

>>11659730
>he doesn't want to follow a humble servant on a lavish egyptian estate with the comic relief of two diametrically opposed dwarves and the mistress of the house incessantly coming onto him before he gets sent to be the dream interpreter and master of provisions for pharaoh, exalting himself through wonderful deeds of discretion and rationing during what would have been a time of crisis, after which he resolves to reunite with his father who has thought him dead for over 20 years
God damn it's just so charmingly quaint

Moomin books

>>11659970
that does sound pretty fucking based

>>11660003
Yessssssss

city by clifford simak