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What's the comfiest book you've read recently?

>> No.13368885

Woodcutters by Bernhard

>> No.13368903

>>13368878
The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White

>> No.13368927

Call of the Wild by Jack London

>> No.13368932

One of the Konosuba LNs.

>> No.13368960

Tristram Shandy. I love how most 18th century novels, before they were ruined by excessive serialization (looking at thee, Dickens and Sue), were like a private dialogue between the author and yourself, like he was letting you in on some amusing anecdote. Sterne and Fielding are particularly good at this

>> No.13368992

The frolic of the beasts by Mishima was pretty damn comfy. Just finished it

>> No.13368996
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13368996

Only the Bible brings me comfort these days and even that comfort is fleeting.

>> No.13369048

>>13368996
What's your favourite translation lad?

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This is pretty damn comfy

>> No.13369320
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>>13369048
KJV while I am distraught.
RSVCE when I am trying to figure out why.

>> No.13369323

First part of Don Quixote

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>>13368878
Fahrenheit 451

>> No.13370430

Invisible Cities!

>> No.13370744

>>13368885
really?

>> No.13370761

>>13368960
You are absolutely correct. I read Shandy a few months ago. Supreme levels of comfy. An incomparable work.

>> No.13370764

>>13368878
The Good Earth - Buck

>> No.13370766

>>13369320
For doctrinal or dogmatic reasons or because you don't understand the language? I find the KJV to be readable.

>> No.13370768

the prince is really comfy. it's like i'm sitting inside the head of a 15th century italian nobleman while sipping tea in my commieblock

>> No.13370781

>>13370768
You live in a commieblock?

>> No.13370784

>>13370781
well...yes.

>> No.13370787

>>13370784
What country? I wish they had them here.

>> No.13370800

>>13370787
i am from le baltics
>i wish we had commieblocks
Have you gone mad?

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13370885

The first part of Gravity's Rainbow is Christmaskino

>> No.13371019

>>13368878
2666 the part about amlifitano
something about his isolation as he slowly loses it and tries to make connections between geometry and philosophy was very comfy

>> No.13371083

anna karenina

>> No.13371122

>>13370787
you don't wish that...

you SHOULD NOT wish that

>> No.13371282

I am a Cat.
Except for the ending.

>> No.13371301

>>13368878
Sinuhe the Egyptian

>> No.13371308

Dubliners

>> No.13371314

Ema, the captive by Aira

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13371317

That one anon was right: reading Rand talk about tap-dancing does melt the heart.

>> No.13371318

>>13368903
Maximal comfort.

>>13371019
This I do not understand. What about the critics?

>> No.13371324

>>13370800
>>13371122
I don't have a place to live and the cost of rent is too high and cannot secure a loan for a home. Commie blocks are good ideas.

>> No.13371331

Hunter.S.Thompson‘s books.

>> No.13371336

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

>> No.13371337

>>13370787
You only wish that because you do not undestand what you are wishing for...

>> No.13371654

The Man Without Qualities something about the time period itself is very comfy