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What's the comfiest novel that you've ever read?

For me, it's After Dark.

>> No.12397201

Any of Calvino's fairy tales... just too comfy.

>> No.12397212

>>12397201
Which would you recommend as my first entry? I've read Winter's Night btw which was hella comfy.

>> No.12397222

Don Quixote, Plato's Symposium, Moby Dick, and, like it or not, Harry Potter (as read when I was a child).

>> No.12397224

>>12397083
The Opposing Shore by Gracq made me ejaculate in my pants from the prose alone

>> No.12397255

>>12397224
$35 for the paperback
bruh

>> No.12397257

>>12397212
Nonexistent Knight + Cloven Viscount
Cosmicomics (Extreme comf levels-be warned)

>> No.12397277

>>12397257
>read Cosmicomics
>comfy af
>its the complete edition so it includes the Time Zero stories
>read those
>rack my brain, trip balls, experience existential dread
10/10 would Calvino again

>> No.12397295

I don't read novels anymore. But as a kid the comfiest was The Horse and His Boy (Narnia)

>> No.12397310
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>>12397083
Goethe faust
The sorrow of young werther
Farmer in the sky
Chateaubriand -- Memoirs from Beyond the Grave
The Journal of Jules Renard
Javier Marías -- All Souls
Seamus Heaney -- Death of a Naturalist
Perfume
Gormenghast & Titus Groans
Sunny
All Millhauser
Riddley Walker
Borges ficciones and poems
Steinbeck travels w/ charlie in search of america
Annete Schaap
Lampje
Moomins
Don quixote
The brothers lionheart
J R
The Sot-Weed Factor
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Confessions of Felix Krull Confidence Man
Stoner
Suttree

>> No.12397344

>>12397212
>>12397257
Don't forget The Baron in the Trees, it's not an outright satire like Viscount and Knight but rather an adventure/philosphical work, and an amazing one at that.

>> No.12397427

>>12397083
The Horse and His Boy

>> No.12397449

In Search of Lost Time

>> No.12397510

>>12397310
thank you're based af

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Les Miserables. The lengthy but always superbly written digressions were just great to read, blending the comfiness of nonfiction with probably one of the greatest plots of the 19th century (they're also good training for Moby Dick, which is the greater novel structurally and thematically, but the digressions don't give you the same feeling of sinking into a vast chair of history).

Plus where Les Miserables takes place is peak atmospheric, in the snug poor slums of a pre-Haussmannization Paris. It's a Paris we'll never see again, and I believe Hugo even speaks directly to the audience at some points in how the very streets where the revolutions took place on in Les Miserables were not completely unrecognizable at the time of his writing about them

>> No.12397656

>>12397224
based

>> No.12397684

The remains of the day was pretty cozy imo

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>>12397684
Up until the end at which point it becomes maximum sadness.

>> No.12397695

>>12397684
>>12397691
never let me go and remains of the day are both suicide fuel desu. what should i read by ishiguro next?

>> No.12397698

>>12397695
It got some mixed reviews, but i found the buried giant to be quite comfy, I'd recommend that

>> No.12397735

>>12397695

Hard to go wrong, really. "Artist of the Floating World" is very good, up there with "Remains." "The Unconsoled" is his most significant work, but it can be a bit of a slog to get through. "Buried Giant" is a bit of a departure in its language, but it has some significant merits and is probably the best deconstruction of trashy fantasy genre works you'll find.

"Pale View of Hills" and "When We Were Orphans" are worth reading if you really like Ishiguro, but otherwise not at the same level as his other works (though "Orphans" is pretty comfy nevertheless).

>> No.12397767

>>12397310
God damn. You have superior taste.

>> No.12397772

I've always found "Encomium Moriae" to be quite comfy.

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Quintessential comfy

>> No.12399933

>>12397310
Based anon, always go back to farmer in the sky for a comfy little read

>> No.12399938

>>12397255
It's worth it

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>>12398610
don't forget the sequel, Cannery Row. Also great and comfy

and pic related

>> No.12400012

>>12397083

I have very fond memories of City of Dreaming Books by Moers. I guess it's technically YA, but that didn't matter to me, it was a fun little bildungsroman.

>> No.12400187

Richard Brautigan
The Hawkline Monster

>> No.12400646

>>12397695
>>12397735
they call his prose light and elegant, which sounds like high-brow airport, how would you describe it?

>> No.12400868

>>12400646
Steady and calculated (in a good way).