/lit/ - Literature

The ones that are puffy and squishy--you know, those little kids books.

oblomov by far

An Abundance Of Katherines.

Dickens

>>4784567
>oblomov
Really? Doesn't oblomovitis get in the way of that comfy feel though?

>>4784544
"My Antonia"

The prose is beautiful, it's incredibly nostalgic, the narrative runs episodically so it's easy to put down and pick up, and you really get a sense of wonder in even the most trivial of details, like the hard shell of an insect.

>>4784544
The Stranger

>>4784604
it gives a lot of ambivalent feels, but those day dream descriptions of oblomovs countryside utopia are some of the finest.

>>4784604
where to start with dickens for comfy?

>>4784693
yeah meursault really knows how to live, even if he often gets interpreted as if there's something wrong with him (aside from shooting arabs).

>>4784746
>(aside from shooting arabs).

sounds like hes doing something right to me.

>>4784544
First, I am not at all clear on the difference between comfy reading environ, and "comfy books" ?

>>4784567
And second, this is not funny. It is cruel. What are you, some kind of frustrated dominatrix, trolling for a sick pain thrill? Oblomov has actually caused people to be admitted to hospital suffering pulmonary sloth.

Does the fuzzy alien creature chapter from Wrinkle In Time count? I'm trying to get this whole comfy thing.

I prefer newspaper magazines for maximum comfort, they're much easier to form into cushioning shapes.

>>4784753
>Oblomov has actually caused people to be admitted to hospital suffering pulmonary sloth.
what

Bjorndal Trilogy.

>>4784753
Books that evoke feelings of comfort and cosiness and/or portray situations in which these are present.

Kerouac is pretty good at this at times.

An infomercial in the form of a novel, I don't know if any exists.

The Long Ships (Röde Orm - Sjöfarare i Västerled) by Frans G. Bengtsson. It loses a lot of its charm in translation, but it's still a great adventure tale. From Wikipedia: "Like the sagas, the book relies on verbs and nouns to drive the narrative, with only a minimum of adjectives and descriptive passages. In essays, Bengtsson expresses disgust with "psychological realism" in the literature of his day where the thoughts and feelings of the characters are discussed explicitly rather than indicated by actions and outward signs."

naked lunch

>>4784544
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, by Pablo Neruda.

This, also the Cat Who... series and pretty much any murder mystery you would read in a house full of knit things.

There's just something dangerously cozy about someone getting killed and some journalist or housewife or monk get autismal over it for no fucking reason.

>>4784791
Sherlock Holmes is also cozy as fuck for those reasons with that added Victorian quaintness.

>>4784803
I've heard historical fiction in general is cozy as fuck, but haven't ever gotten any recs outside of Cadfael. I heard good stuff about the guy who wrote The Other Boleyn Girl, but don't trust the source.

>>4784604
>Really? Doesn't oblomovitis get in the way of that comfy feel though?
The only thing wrong about Oblomov's ways is that he didn't keep his health and finances in order, other than that it seems like the GOAT lifestyle.

Atlas Shrugged was this for me in my teen years, giving me a nice little Sonichu-esque fantasy world to escape in while other guys got laid.

>>4784996
how is psychopatic capitalist porn cozy?

>>4785060
>didnt start with the greeks

Murakami is the literary equivalent of convenience store comfort food. Especially his pre wind-up bird stuff.

>>4785070
>russian jew
>greek

>>4785094
He once described how he tries to write as "simple to follow, with clever metaphors" - probably the coziest style to read his surreal/detective/dark stories in. I reccomend Kafka On The Shore. Never wanted to put it down, full of endearing characters, wacky adventures that never fill you with too much dread, etc.

>>4784544
I'd say a book of Robert Frost poems.

>>4784544
Moomins

>>4784779
Wha-? How would that work?

Mein Kampf

gravity's rainbow

it's just so much fun

>>4787204

A recent pool with readers has elected it the most influential book on the lives of several people.

Walden

>>4784544

Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed (some parts, where she starts to rant about the nature of a vague and in-danger utopia)

Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited (for many reasons, not including the uncomfortable parts where Sebastian has become a full blown alcoholic. YES HOMO.)

James Joyce - Dubliners (The dead, most especially. Dat ending hot dang.)

Virginia Woolf - To The Lighthouse, The Waves, Mrs. Dalloway (All top-tier novels with a godly prose-style. She makes me want to drink tea and collapse, and wake up in velvet divan and get fucked by Rupert Brooke, probably some skinny dipping, yes please.)

Pablo Neruda - 20 Love Poems and A Song of Despair (for the lovelorn idiots such as I)

Marcel Proust - Swann's Way (get drowned in style bb ;))

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Memories of My Melancholy Whore, One Hundred Years of Solitude (Laugh out loud masterpieces. OHYOS reminds me of a good hot day out in the tropics.)

Donna Tartt - The Secret History (because I'm a sick fuck.)

>>4784746
>where to start with dickens for comfy?
Anything with a fireplace, but especially his 'Christmas books'. They're not as much centered around societal problems as are many of his other works. Note 'The Cricket and the Hearth' for example.

Mostly kid books but these are the ones that make me feel most chilled out.

Hatchet for cool survival fort feels

Watership Down for chillin' with rabbits

Hobbit for chillin' with hobbits

Dune for being a big book that you feel really absorbed in after page 987

Don Quixote for the same reason as Dune plus it feels like a sleepy sunny afternoon in Castille

>>4787247
Re-reading G'sR after scribbling all the shit in the margins and translating everything while high is pretty great

>>4787273
I read Dubliners after White Noise and it was so soothing.

>>4787295
dem fucking snow man

>>4784544
Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy

winnie the pooh is cosiest of all time

Chekov's short stories are pretty sweet.

>>4787475
>"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."

The adventures of Sherlock motherfucking Holmes

Mason & Dixon

>>4787285
I 100% agree with Hobbit. Whenever I read it I always end up in a comfy chair and eating stuff. I usually never eat when I read, but it feels right to do it for maximum hobbitness.

Boy by Roald Dahl (a memoir of his lovely childhood, well school wasn't so lovely but he doesn't write about it like it traumatized him)

This one is really nice, and the first part of the book is all about a comfy setting. It's really good prose too.
Reading it is really relaxing.

Can't say it about the entire novels but Cromwell's house in Austin Friars sounds cosy as hell in Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. Most of the novels are nobles plotting to get each other beheaded or burn some heretics but whenever Cromwell gets home off the road there's usually kids running in and out of the house, a pie baking in the oven, a dog sleeping by the fireplace and salmon and Italian wine for dinner.

I'm planning to read the mysteries of Pittsburgh. It's about some graduating student who has two romances in the summer (one with a guy, other with a girl). I'm ugly and have no friends, even in uni, so this is the warm book that I wish was my life (I don't want gaysex though). Young cool people in summer with barely any cares.

I made it sound like boring shit, but it has some conflict, without getting overly dramatic about it. The characters are the sort of hipsters we want to be but would call faggots/tumblr tier if we saw them in the street (although this isn't tumblr shit)

Ada, or Ardor. Slightly less comfy for the last 200 pages, but still fantastic.

The Sun also Rises, Goodbye Columbus, The Corrections

>>4789902
hemingway does cosy really well.

>>4789942
i like when female characters "make a face" in books hehe. Also when it goes "__ ___ ____" she hissed.

>>4789942
hemmingway writes the mmost realistic femmale characters. vapid, stupid, and incapable, just like reality.

>>4790003
>>4790007

This is a cozy thread; having a moronic, vapid woman to suck my dick and make faces seems cozy to me

>>4789822
Seconded

>>4784592

I lol'd.

>>4790007
hemingway sort of introduced me to the idea of women as non-persons