/lit/ - Literature

No clap its The Hobbit, fr, fr. It is the book that made me want to learn to read after seeing the animated film. I finished it during the summer after first grade often sitting outside in my backyard or in my treehouse.

Any book from Italo Calvino, I really liked the Cloven Viscount. It's about a Viscount who is cut in half by a cannon ball in battle, he is saved but only one half of him returns to his land to rule.
It's a really funny book, I had a lot of laughs out of it, it's absurd and candid. Pretty comfy too

>>19726310
bruh i cant choose, unironically, ive read so much... i gotta get my shit together tho kek

>>19726310
The Possessed by Dostoy
Stepan Trofimovich and the narrator hanging out while everything goes to shit is weirdly comfy.

>>19726422
?????

Narcissus and Goldmund
just cantant travelling and appreciating art and romancing women

>>19726310
Left Hand of Darkness is ultracomfy

Redwall books
or Terry Pratchett young adult

Dazai's short stories, particularly his autobiographical ones collected in "Self Portrait"

>>19726310
Heart of darkness was quite cozy for me

>>19726310
The first 2/3 of butchers crossing

>>19726310
Magic Mountain
By Thomas Mann

>>19726310
blood merridian.Feels incredibly comfy to see mr.holden agreeing with reality.

>>19726310
The main character runs away from the city to the mountains and makes a hollowed out tree into a home, adopts a wild hawk as a pet, and makes pancakes out of acrorns. 3rd grade me thought that was the coolest shit ever and it was the book that got me into both reading and doing things in the great outdoors. I think I wouldn’t have become a professional wilderness guide without it.

The Old Man and the Sea. Comfycore is the only thing that Americans can write.

>>19726828
The old man and the sea for me also, although I treat american literature as garbage.
The other being notes from the dead house, as it should have been translated if anglos could speak any other language really. It's so fucking good. I'm reading it for a second time within the same week. It's too fucking good.

>>19726310
the belgariad series by David eddings

>>19726310
Musashi or monte cristo

the neverending story by michael ende

>>19726310
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denosovich
>>19726478
also a good choice

>>19726778
Mann solved my insomnia

>>19726310
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

Honestly part of the purpose of the book. Comfy ass nondescript protag stays in a comfy ass inn in a comfy ass skiing town with comfy ass geisha friends and comfy ass sake and wine and parties.

>>19726310
Peter pan, the tales of mother goose, the secret garden.
In general, illustrated classics are the most comfy books.

Otherwise the ugly fanfictions written on the wattpad by the teenagers, they immediately clear the mind

>>19726516
(You)
>>19726310
Cannery Row baby, nothing comfier

>>19726310
Coinlocker babies

Call of the Crocodile

>>19726455
seconded

>>19726407
>No clap
DON'T SPEAK LIKE A NIGGER ON THIS BOARD

>>19726422
>bruh
see: >>19728109

>>19727896
this

>>19728109
17 years old

The Cricket in Times Square.

Kusamakura is heckin comfy. Also there is a chapter early in Ulysses which feels really warm and comfy.

>>19726838
It was good but I wouldn't call it comfy. Also, I call bullshit on the supposed lack of violent altercations in a fucking RUSSIAN JAIL.

>>19726407
Fr fr that hobit be pretty comfy man no cap no cap, unabridged count of monty cristo also be pretty chill fr fr.

>>19726310
The Histories of Herodotus

The Catcher In The Rye

>>19726310
A day in life of Ivan Denisovich fr no cap

I've read this book many times. I got my friend to read this recently and every time he had a plot question I was able to accurately and precisely answer his questions. We joked that I literally had Nightingale's encyclopedia in my head.
Supremely comfy book.

haven't found a comfier book desu

>>19728542
this book will always have a special place in my heart. his other books are also great, Rumo, and the likes.

>>19726548
You enjoy cuckoldry

>>19728572
I definitely think Rumo is probably the better book overall, but goddamn is bluebear just a warm cup of hot chocolate.
Despite being an alleged Zamonia fanatic I've never read any of the other books, I really wanna get around to it sometime.

>>19727896
This
Cannery Row? More like KINO Row

>>19726310
Dracula

>>19726310
Azumanga daiyo omnibus was and is my comfy read. If you want an actual novel then probably the idiot by elif batuman which I bought by mistake thinking it was the Dostoevsky novel. Anyway it's a book where nothing much happens but the dry humour is relaxing to follow.

>>19726310
I haven't read many comfy books but Don Qixote, The Hobbit, and The Moon Is Down were pretty comfy. I've just started The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood but it looks like it'll be pretty comfy.

>>19726310
Better Never to Have Been and Blood Meridian are both comfy as fuck. Death is cozy.

>>19726310
Is The Dharma Bums comfy?

Watchers by Dean Koontz, or anything by John Bellairs. Nothing like reading in your youth.

>>19729633
It is my go to comfy book. Particularly the chapters about hiking.

>>19728493
Yeah, that one

Children of Time

I love her so much bros… I can’t stop thinking about bae

>>19726407
This. No clappity clap.

>>19729633
Fair warning I only read about half of the book but the hiking parts are comfy, but the Buddhism stuff gets old fast if you don't agree with him. Some very beautiful imagery tucked away in that book though -- it's almost worth reading just for that.

>>19726310
A Farewell to Arms if you don't read the last few chapters

I am a Cat by Soseki Natsume

>>19726827
Same, I loved that book. Sadly I grew up in the desert so there was no forest to run away to at the ripe old age of 9. Did do a lot of cool camping in the scouts later though.

>>19726310
Herodotus' Histories

1984

>>19726310
Franny and Zooey.

>>19726741
retarded son of a bitch

>>19728511
>The Rings of Saturn
O? Is it so? What an intriguing title! What an alluring cover, featuring none other than Saturn itself! What am I in for? A highbrow scifi? Or something more enigmatic and metaphysical which digs an inquisitive eye into the very core of the Universe?
>Its first-person narrative arc is the account by a nameless narrator (who resembles the author in typical Sebaldian fashion[1]) on a walking tour of Suffolk. In addition to describing the places he sees and people he encounters, including translator Michael Hamburger, Sebald discusses various episodes of history and literature, including the introduction of silkworm cultivation to Europe and the writings of Thomas Browne, which attach in some way to the larger text. The book was published in English in 1998.

Awesome. Fascinating. Thanks for sharing. Fucking retard.

These two, easily. I have never wished so fervently to have been born before The Great Globalization and homogenization of western culture.

>>19727652
certified /comfy/

>>19726310
Siddhartha is comfy af, but I'd probably have to give the award to the Canterbury Tales. They're so charming and quintessentially medieval, but the richness of High Middle Ages culture and religion shines through them and gives them such depth.

>>19730242
Concretely filtered, and didn't even open the book. Incredible.
Anyway, Americans can't even parse Sebald in the first place.

>>19726310
Finnegans Wake

>>19730242
>A highbrow scifi?
all scifi, by necessity, is lowbrow tripe for knuckleheads

>>19730242
>He doesn't like comfy tales of history and high literature amidst the countryside
Why are you like this?

>>19730289
Foundation is kinda comfy.

How has no one posted pic related yet

>>19730283
Going to write a book called The Bloodsoaked Soil of Mars about a gas station clerk who reflects back on his uneventful childhood in Polynesia and performs psychoanalysis on his various uninteresting customers and then laugh about filtering the uncultured swine plebs. Thanks for the inspiration my high IQ interlocuter.

>>19730301
I disliked it when i was small. Don't remember why and don't remember it now.

>>19730303
You don't think that could be interesting? Like, at all?

a portrait of the artist as a young man and dubliners

>>19730307
Perhaps you should try it again. It only takes about half an hour to read, if that. Supremely comfy, surprisingly clever ideas about paradigms and perception

>>19730299
Foundation is annoying. There's only so many times (one, actually) the Foundation project can be on the verge of collapse and get saved in the nick of time by randos who happen to be passing through. It doesn't help that galactic civilization is portrayed as repulsive before it collapses, unlike the Dune series.

>>19730311
Of course I do, why else would I write it retard?

>>19730314
Which Dubliners story is your favorite?

>>19726310
The Moomin books.

>>19730340
right now, eveline

>>19726310
Anna Karenina, obvs

>>19730318
How much of it have you read? I'm betting 0 out of 7.
Last two are the comfiest.

>>19726310
Probably The Makioka Sisters

its a tossup between chronicles of narnia and the xanth books

>>19730355
I read the first two and part of the third. I much prefer his non-fiction.

>>19726778
Came to post this

>>19730242
Why are you like this

>>19730242
based, fuck gay "slice of life" pomo-neomo books in the ass

>maybe the real magic is the ordinary relationships we forme-
NO!
>maybe the real high art is in the lives of ordinary people and their foibl-
NO!
>maybe the true heroes are the unsung everyda-
NO!!!
>maybe the real horror was living under capitalis-
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!

NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>19726310
Assuming you don't include The Bible? Then the answer would be Thomas Aquinas's Disputed Questions on Truth

>>19731087
you don't have the emotional intelligence to engage with literature. stick with genre fiction.

>>19731092
>emotional intelligence
Hahaha do women really

Hahahahahaha

>>19726407
>>19726516
>>19727229
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>>19729665
>>19730301
>>19730299
>>19730318
these are all correct.

generally OP a lot of children's books (classic children's) are comfy. if you want a more serious tone while still being comfy you go with classic sci-fi or gothic. if you want a more positive tone and faster pace while still comfy you go to more absurdist fantasy (discworld) or sci-fi (hitchhiker's guide). classic epics or hero arcs can sometimes come off as comfy too. something not mentioned anywhere here but mentioned in the charts is jane austen character dramas. that's essentially the middle ground between slow gothic and upbeat fast fantasy / sci fi (in terms of comfy). I looked a lot into comfy literature after experiencing The Hobbit.

>>19731102
Have better emotional intelligence than males? Yes. Women really.

>>19731087
I doubt you read at all, going off your post and your frog.

>>19728578
Huh?

>>19726310
The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher by Beatrix Potter, it has nice pictures too.

>>19726310
The Odyssey is oddly comfy in my objectively correct opinion.

>>19726310
The Lord of the Rings.

I found Moby Dick very comfy

>>19726310
>Hobbit
>Anything from Walser
>Carroll
>Jeffers poems

The Sound of Waves - Mishima

>>19731679
athena always having his back does make it pretty comfy

>>19729667
John bellairs is pretty comfy.

A series of unfortunate events; the last book. The one where they're safe and happy. Where the reptile-keeper/uncle manages to defeat count Olaf and the kids stay with him forever.

A wrinkle in time (when they started getting ripped apart while in ((((space))) is really relaxing. Like tearing off a chunk of warm french bread.

Step aside plebs. Ultimate comfy is here. I present; On market street

>>19726310
Don Quixote is giga comfy