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im looking for PEAK COMFY LITERATURE!!!! share the comfiest book u have ever read. for me its the high mountains of portugal by yann martel. i was living with a shitty psychotic roommate during covid and that book helped me escape

>> No.22054720

>>22054718
The Good Earth is maybe the most comfy book ever written (except for that one part).

>> No.22054725

>>22054718
middlemarch

>> No.22054730

>>22054718
Piranesi is gigacomf

>> No.22054771

>>22054718
Stoner, LOTR

>> No.22054845

The Letters of Van Gogh

>> No.22055382

harry potter is pretty comfy, the hobbit too

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>>22054718

>> No.22055390

>>22054718
The Sound of Waves.

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P E A K COMFY COMING THROUGH.

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>> No.22055540

>>22054718
Tortilla Flat is the comfiest book I've read

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>>22054718
The collected short stories of W. Somerset Maugham.
Comfy, entirely re-readable, like your favorite old blanket.

>> No.22055909

>>22055428
Not comfy desu.

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>>22054718
This is super comfy, OP.

>> No.22055955

>>22054718
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denosovich

>> No.22056179

>>22054718
Anything written by Hemingway or Murakami is peak comfy

>> No.22056211

Mason & Dixon
Moby Dick
Growth of the Soil

What is it about doorstoppers that's so intoxicating, litbros?

>> No.22056595

>>22056179
the old man and the sea is the comfiest book I've ever read

>> No.22057044

>>22055428
>20 page sermon which is a graphic description of hell
>comfy

>> No.22057051

Wuthering heights
Robinson crusoe
C.S. Lewis's space trilogy / Narnia
The Silmarillion

>> No.22057483

The Compleat Angler

>> No.22057487

>>22055540
This. Also Silk by Alessandro Baricco

>> No.22057524

>>22055428
Great book, but it’s not comfy.
Ulysses is comfier.

>> No.22057559

The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata

>> No.22057589

>>22055901
Second this. One of my favourite authors. Always overlooked, but really an unbeatable storyteller

>> No.22057636

It's a crime that no one has mentioned Cannery Row yet.

>> No.22057760

>>22057636
I really need to read this. Thanks for the recommendation.

>> No.22057795

>>22055491
Yes

>> No.22057824

>>22054718
>Richard sat smoking and drinking in the corner: the corner he had painted himself into, with his smoking and drinking. Smoking and drinking were what he liked to do. He was approaching the point where smoking and drinking were all he liked to do. Beyond that point lay lay the place where smoking and drinking were all he could do, anyway, stupefied, entirely immobilized, by smoking and drinking. Nevertheless, he felt good (he was smoking and drinking)...
In light of Martin Amis's death, I would share his The Information as one of my comfy books. Like a couple of his other novels, I can pick that up wherever and enjoy.

>> No.22057827

>>22054718
Suttree.

>> No.22058291

>>22055428
>kid gets knocked around by dad and priests and gives up religion as a result of these personal hardships
comfy?

>> No.22058293

>>22057524
>guy gets cucked
comfy?