/lit/ - Literature

What is this obsession with 'comfy' things?

>>9043470
Humans seek out comfort, generally speaking.

>>9043449
My?

>>9043449
OP, your picture describes reading "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace perfectly. Give that a go.

>>9043470
Dano-Norwegian cultural imperialism upon the late capitalist, globalist middle class society.

The Count of Monte Cristo is hygge as fuck

One Hundred Years of Solitude, up until Jose Arcadio (firsborn) returns from traveling the world.

>>9043449
the virgin suicides
Never let me go

>>9043449
I hate being up that early. that's not comfy at all. that's rage inducing.

>>9043992
staying up till sunrise is pretty comfy tho

>>9043992
Getting up very early and watching the sunrise with a hot cup of coffee is one of the comfiest things imaginable.

>>9044488
I'd argue sleeping in bed through that sunrise and waking up sometime after 12pm is more comfy.

>>9044493
Not at all. It's depressing.

>>9044493
I hate waking up and getting my day started when the day is already halfway over. It makes me pretty much loose all my motivation to do anything with the day. I don't about watching the sunrise, but its nice to get your day started early IMO. Comfy to me is watching movie in bed with a girl (sadly its been quite awhile) at like 8pm, while it's raining outside and I snack on some dank food.

>>9043470
I always associate the desire to be comfy with depression because i feel like that's the time you want to be comforted most

>>9044517
This guy gets it.

>>9043449
>that much humidity
Open up a fucking window, mold is fucking hard to get rid of.

>>9044493
Sure yeah I guess that works too I mean if you're like 14

dharma bums

>>9043992
It's so comfy. When I wake up that early I make a coffee in the keurig by my bed and then read for an hour. It's usually the best part of my day, and I find it so much easier to be immersed in literature when I just woke up.

Mornings only suck if you're a dumbass who wakes up late enough that you're always rushing to get to work, or if you somehow haven't discovered coffee yet.

>>9043989
I second Never Let Me Go.

>>9043916
How is this scandi cultural imperialism?

>>9043449
>One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn
>A Moveable Feast by Hemingway
>Alas Babylon by Frank
>The Town and the City by Kerouac
>Cannery Row by Steinbeck
>Suttree by McCarthy

Sorry for any spelling errors.

>>9044000
what, through the night? that's one of the least comfy things ever desu

>>9045239
hygge, nigger

>>9045312
Oh I see. You're one of those...

>>9043470
see nietzsches 'the last man' and calhouns mouse utopia experiments

>>9045312
>snowniggers thinking they invented gemütlichkeit

>>9045270
>>A Moveable Feast by Hemingway
seconded

>>9044488
If you don't avoid the sun, you're not living the literary lifestyle.

I find Houellebecq quite comfy most of the time.

>>9043449
The Lion and the witch and also the wardrobe

Wodehouse

>>9045865
Where should I start with him? Elementary particles?

>>9046024
Start anywhere. I began with map and the territory. Submission and whatever were IMO his weakest.

>>9045800
I lived the /lit/ lifestyle for a long time, it gets pretty dull.

>>9047082
Submission is a visionary work.

OP see
>>9046006
and
Lydia Davis

>>9043916
Dork

>>9044870
One hundred percent agree. I read it in the park last June and it was comfy as fuck.

>>9043449
Nobody reads this guy anymore. He reached comfiness levels that weren't even thought possible at the time.

>>9043449
travels with charley is comfy af

>>9043470
Self-infantalizing soulless, lost, useless sick puppets who fear anything remotely threatening.

>>9046024

Start with Whatever (Extension du domaine de la lutte)

>>9050223
S-Shut up...

>>9050223
Pretty much this, but without the blatant chip on your shoulder.

>>9043449
The Ice Palace by that Norwegian guy
The Name of the Wind
The Hobbit
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

>>9043470
modern life (at least for the middle class, engineery type who would flock to the literature section of an anime image board) isn't comfy. it's hectic and confusing.

>>9051110
>engineery type
What do you mean by this?

>>9045270
Strong second for Cannery Row

Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

/comfycore/

Swann's Way
Knut Hamsun
Turgenev Hunter's journal
Lydia Davis
A Moveable Feast & The Sun Also Rises
John Cheever
Taipei
Madame Bovary
Suttree
V.
My Struggle book 2
Natsume Soeseki
Cannery Row

>>9050223
No bully pls

>>9043470
To not be comfy is to die.

>>9052617
This.

>>9052617
I'm never comfy because I have to use nerdy looking thick glasses and it's like having a lead mask on my face all the time.

>>9044493
>>9043992
>he doesn't get up at 6pm and see the sunrise in the later part of his day

>>9044892
>he relies on coffee

You're a slave, break free.

>>9052765
You are walking dead and you are just now realizing.

>>9052788
I wish

>>9043449

>>9044870
concur

>>9045372
>calhouns mouse utopia experiments
Very interesting read, thank you anon.

"Mr. Palomar" and "If on a winter's night a traveller", both by Italo Calvino.

>>9052807
Thank you for the response, makes making helpful posts worthwhile.

>>9052880
what are those things on the bed

>>9051232
i was projecting, desu

>>9043916
good (( insight )) mate, top-notch

>>9043470

Fear of anything real. They:

1. Live with their mothers.

2. Do nothing at all.

3. Attempt no challenges.

4. Play vidya on easy.

5. Avoid all forms of responsibility.

>>9050223
> this much loathing
Try being cheerful

>>9053514
Listing the difficulty settings people use when playing "vidya" is far more indicative of being a loser than asking for some comfortable books.

>>9043449
When I'm comfy indoors I like to read about adventures that are lacking in violence or action. I like Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress and I also have been enjoying some of Basho's travelogues.

>>9053514

>>9052937
>lol he doesn't know about the three seashells

>>9045372

>No small part of this ugly barbarization has been due to sheer physical congestion: a diagnosis now partly confirmed with scientific experiments with rats – for when they are placed in equally congested quarters, they exhibit the same symptoms of stress, alienation, hostility, sexual perversion, parental incompetence, and rabid violence that we now find in the Megalopolis

Holy fuck could it be that simple?

>>9043449
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin books. They're escapism done right.

Perfect when you want to forget about the present world, and live in a different one for a while.

>>9043449
LOTR. Nothing else compares really. I always return to it every few years.

>>9043449

I find Stephen King very relaxing

>>9043449
i also looking for more comfy books
for example with kid books i like Harry Porter (1-4)
for classics one i like Alenxadre Duma's (three musketeer trilogy,..), War and Piece (Leo Tolstoy)
for sci-fi i like Jules Verne's books

can you guys recommend me something similar? i prefer long story

>>9045270
>>One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn

Came here to post this. Made me eat food differently. I'm also glad I don't have to wear a jacket sleeve on my legs to sleep.

>>9052504
>V.
>comfy
uw0tm8? It's a dizzying novel.

>>9053514

Projecting this hard

>9052504
you

does anyone agree with me that France and Russia lits in the 19 century has the most comfy books?

Norwegian Wood is very comfy. Lots of descriptions of weather and environment and relaxing on sunday.

>>9052785
>he relies on oxygen
You're a slave, break free.

>>9055529
The difference being that oxygen is required to actually remain alive.
Meanwhile, coffee is just a drug.

>>9055621
Who cares? It improves quality of life.

>>9055635
No it doesn't.

>>9055663
Yes, it does.

>>9055672
Alright, in the same way that amphetamines improves your ability to concentrate.

>>9054624
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
The Brothers Lionheart (Astrid Lindgren)
The Sword of Shannara (Terry Brooks)

The Lord of The Rings is unironically the most comfy book.

>>9055680
No, not at all in the same way.

>>9055699
Damn, bro. Your caffeine infused noggin are serving up some sizzling counter points today.
Also, end your life.

>>9055635
It gives you energy for a while, but then your body gets used to it and it no longer does anything. But when you stop drinking it, your body feels like shit. You know, like most drugs.

>>9055704
>being this mad over someone enjoying something you don't
geez anon, have a cup of coffee or something

>>9055779
>But when you stop drinking it, your body feels like shit.
That's never happened to me even though I drink coffee (almost) daily, sometimes several cups a day. I can easily go weeks without drinking it and I feel fine, I know because I've tried. I just enjoy drinking it.

>>9055801
I think I'm just very sensitive to caffeine. When I stopped drinking coffee (only had one a day) I had bad headaches for a couple of weeks. I drink tea here and there now.

>>9055809
Yeah, it probably depends on the individual. I drink tea as well, especially in this season.

>>9043449
Neuromancer

>>9043470
Escapism. It's healthy from time to time.

>>9044870
I agree, good choice.

Wittgensteins Mistress
Schoolboys Diary

Matsuo Basho - Narrow road to the interior

>>9052937
You keep hot coal in them to heat the bed.

>>9053771
If all those videos from PRC is anything to go by, megacities breed psychopaths.

>>9043449
mine

>>9050223
babby's first nihilism

>>9043449
>>9053554

5/5 comfy core

>>9056220
This. Everyone fucking read this so we can actually get a discussion thread going

Norwegian Wood my man

>>9056220
>>9056249

What is it about?

>>9053771
We need a great culling.

>>9056653
>georgia guidestones

I forgot these exist

>>9055691
thnks senpai

I have The Sea-wolf by Jack London sitting on my shelf. It looks like it's comfy-core but I'm not sure. My question: is it?

>>9055691
I love the Brothers Lionheart but it's really not comfy. It's too sad to be comfy.

>>9057824
I suggest you read it and find out.
I haven't read the particular one, but Jack London's pretty good. I have an old edition of his complete works in like 12 volumes, maybe more. Have yet to go through most of it.

>>9055964
This guy knows.

>>9043449
Dubliners
In Search of Lost Time