/lit/ - Literature

>>16497895

>>16497903
this book made me anxious. a good read but not comfy.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

>>16498047
>>16497903
These are both flawless books, but not comfy in any way.

>>16497903
>sepulchrave groan
>Lady Fuchsia
>steerpike
>Mr Flay
>Dr Prunesquallor
>Sourdust

I have no doubt these are the best named characters in literature.

>>16498654
is the lang's movie an adaptation of this book?

>>16498666
Yes but it deviates a ton, reducing the books best character to nothing.

Pliny's Natural History
History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides

>>16500012
>History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
>comfy
No.

Dialogues are comfy

>>16497895
is this the best edition of histories?

>>16500128
Yes. The footnotes are really good and maps are worth it.

Footnotes revealed this to me,
>In his book The Ants' Gold: The Discovery of the Greek El Dorado in the Himalayas, Peissel says that Herodotus may have confused the old Persian word for "marmot" with that for "mountain ant" because he probably did not know any Persian and thus relied on local translators when travelling in the Persian Empire. Herodotus did not claim to have seen the gold-digging "ant" creatures; he stated that he was simply reporting what other travellers told him.

>>16500012
these two are long, difficult and boring, although I'm very glad I read them (only parts for Pliny), I don't see how they could be considered comfy

>>16498185
But the book cover of the monk dude looks mad comfy though...

>>16500141
Not that guy, but why do you consider History of the Peloponnesian War boring? Sure, there are some dull segments e.g. the periods in which mostly nothing happens, but there's also a lot of entertaining stuff, and some parts of the book are genuinely comfy (not in a literal sense, I guess, since there's a war going on; maybe it's comfy in a way that you're observing these events?).

Don Quijote

>>16500128
Macauley is the most literal one and I wanted something as close as possible to Herodotus without having to know greek. His notes are not great though.
>>16500137
Meh, you could've found that from reading Herodotus wiki page. I usually google almost every name and event, and I have several maps opened on my second monitor. Also reading in parallel courses e.g. http://moellerhaus.com/Persian/Historie_7.html

The Wind in the Willows

>>16500012
>>16500036
>>16500128
>>16500137
>>16501628
If you read Thucydides, you must Hobbes' translation

>>16500128
The maps are nice to keep track of the story geographically. The footnotes are OK. The appendices are what really make it.

>>16501676
>The appendices are what really make it.
What's in the appendices?

>>16500137
>Herodotus did not claim to have seen the gold-digging "ant" creatures; he stated that he was simply reporting what other travellers told him.

>>16501730
>tfw now i get the hippocleides reference

>>16501695
All of the Landmarks have standard appendices that deal with the governments of the major state actors and the involved land/naval forces of the era. In this one, the other appendices deal mainly with Greek culture and with the geographies that Herodotus tries to explore like Egypt and the Black Sea region. It's a little over a 100 pages worth of additional information and critical analysis that none of the other versions even come close to. I'm reading another one right now (Hellenica) which has competing narratives from other classical historians as appendices. It's nice to be able to compare and go back and forth without having to buy some expensive Loebs. I do prefer the Penguin translation of Hellenica so far (finished the first book), it feels more lively.

>>16500137
>black and white images

>>16501759
I downloaded a PDF, it seems like they're just academic papers related to Herodotean studies no? Maybe I'll try their Hellenika edition but it smells to me like academic circlejerking writing a lot and adding very little in a fancy package.

>>16501876
I don't know if I want read this kind of stuff over and over even for free

A farmer talking about his natural 'do nothing' way of farming and philosophising about how applicable it is to the rest of life. Very comfy read.

Seeing some VERY odd interpretations of Comfy in this thread. My list:

-Le Petit Prince (comfiest of all time)
-The Bible
-Plato's Symposium
-anything by Austen
- To the Lighthouse
-Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (not inherently comfy but reminds me of being a teenager and just getting into literature)
-basically any Romantic poetry is hella comfy but especially Wordsworth and Keats
-The Tale of Genji
-Spring and Autumn Annals

The World as Will and Representation
The Life of Reason

>>16500128
I don't like landmark editions. The books are cumbersome and many foot notes are repeated over and over
I like Tom Holland's penguin classics deluxe edition. Plenty of maps and notes and its the size of a normal book

>>16502331
>Plato's Symposium
This. It’s the most cosy thing I’ve ever read anyway. You feel like you’re really chilling in some aristocratic house with your aristocratic bros drinking wine and making beautiful speeches. It’s an amazing dialogue.

>>16503788
the bigger the book the bigger your penis

The Hobbit
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Growth of the Soil
Epic of Gilgamesh

>>16504042
Sounds like something someone coping with that problem would say

safe

>>16504787
>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
based

Rings of Saturn
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles
The Magic Mountain (the beginning)
Montaigne’s Essays
A Sportman’s Sketches
In Our Time
Mason and Dixon
Lonesome Dove

Virgil's Eclogues
>>16497895
incredibly true

The Story of Civilization by Will Durant
Anything by Plato
Anything by Aristotle, especially Poetics and Metaphysics
The Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter
>>16505930
>Montaigne’s Essays
Very comfy.

>>16497895
>pic
>>16498047
>>16498035
Based

>>16507118
Based

The trilogy is pretty comfy.

>>16497895

what audiobook would you listen to as comfy time with a woman who you want to make your gf who need to gently get on with her life after losing a longterm bf

>>16507728
this sounds like a mess

>>16507728
Can women not read?

>>16507728
obviously Schopenhauer's essays

>>16507728
The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra
The Holy Quran

>>16507888
Checked. Seconding the Quran, get this bitch a burqa.

>>16507728
Horror podcasts

>>16497895
Skavenslayer. just comfy fantasy/light light mystery novel with a good amount of humor and character. uses a very obvious repition of each chapter focusing on one threat to the city in a very comfy sclocky way. the skaven are great in how deluded they are too. the mc worms and is all around an easy read fun comfy time. i think it strikes just the right balance in the Gotrek and felix books. the others seem to get a bit borring and unimpactful and the MC is kinda just impotent and boring.

>>16507789
really? thinking of listening to an audiobook with her at my place for a few hours during afternoons, sitting on the sofa, drinking tea, maybe my arm around her , maybe kissing . not too bad a time , no?

>>16507728
>a woman who you want to make your gf who need to gently get on with her life after losing a longterm bf
This part, mate.

>>16508150
>>16508196
I wish I knew how to capture the duality between these two posters in words... they are both right and both nuts in their respective ways.

>>16508308
afaik poaching girls who are grieving the death of a long-term relationship isn't really a great strat. Also audiobooks aren't known to get too many pussies wet.

>>16508308
her ex gave her a lot of trouble. the way she looks at me when she talks to me... i think she is ready to be with me. so pay no mind my cool story

Can programming books be comfy?

>>16508380
just browsing what i could try, i thought murakami coud do...maybe a short story or two. downloaded
Man-Eating Cats .... listen to it beforehand a lil and it start by mentioning a news item about a women who hit the wall, live alone die alone and get eaten by her cat. haha, a bit too much on the nose i think i'll skip that one.

Bump

>>16508907
Can that dildo?

>>16497895
A Confederacy of Dunces

>>16497895
Moby-Dick or the whale

>>16509529
based

>>16497895
Is Herodotus really comfy?

>>16511422
Geography and culture parts are extremely comfy

>>16507728
jesus what a loser just get a normal gf it ain't that hard faggot