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Anonymous Thu Jan 24 15:06:09 2019 No.12469497 [Reply] [Original]

Comfy books?

Easy to read and preferably shorter than 400 pages.

Thanks guys.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 15:06:57 2019 No.12469501 >>12469497 Try Vonnegut

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 15:07:53 2019 No.12469505 whos the gash

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 15:08:08 2019 No.12469506 >>12469497 Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 15:09:30 2019 No.12469509 >>12469497 Tortilla Flat.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 15:12:07 2019 No.12469531 >>12469506 i hated both of these books calvino is for midwits

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 15:13:48 2019 No.12469538 >>12469497 Murakami

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 15:13:49 2019 No.12469539 >>12469506 seconding If on a winter's night... That book had no right to be that good.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 15:17:01 2019 No.12469549 >>12469506 >>12469539 Thanks. Will check that out for sure.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 15:21:31 2019 No.12469573 >>12469497 Donna Tartt The Secret History

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 15:21:47 2019 No.12469575 Camus, myth of sisyphus or the stranger

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 15:22:24 2019 No.12469578 >>12469497 king

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 15:23:27 2019 No.12469581 trout fishing in america

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 15:24:29 2019 No.12469586 >>12469581 Brautigan is very comfy

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 15:24:29 2019 No.12469587 >>12469575 I read the Stranger and I really enjoyed it. Is Sisyphus the same sort of quality?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 15:28:15 2019 No.12469600 >>12469587 You'll enjoy it

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 15:30:51 2019 No.12469609 File: 16 KB, 230x344, 9780253020833_med[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12469497

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 15:35:10 2019 No.12469627 skylark by kosztolanyi

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 16:06:52 2019 No.12469787 Norwegian Wood by Murakami

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 16:07:07 2019 No.12469790 Tove Jansson’s works. Either Moomins or her short stories

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 16:32:56 2019 No.12469901 >>12469497 Growth of the Soil

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 16:43:00 2019 No.12469952 File: 33 KB, 383x500, dwarffortress.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12469497 Thank me later

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 16:53:46 2019 No.12470003 >>12469538 This

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 17:00:34 2019 No.12470039 Vonnegut is perfect for you bitch, read Cat's Cradle or Sirens of Titan

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 17:35:08 2019 No.12470180 >>12469531 It's because you're a woman

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 17:37:01 2019 No.12470191 Sound of Waves

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 20:51:37 2019 No.12471223 >>12469497 bump

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 21:10:22 2019 No.12471310 >>12469787 Comfy choice but it's almost 400 pages, I think OP wants something shorter.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 21:15:39 2019 No.12471327 Why does the picture make me sad?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 21:53:02 2019 No.12471503 File: 219 KB, 1134x1001, Christ in the Desert - Kramskoi.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12471327 Transience.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 22:51:39 2019 No.12471782 >>12471310 Maybe my penis then

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 22:53:50 2019 No.12471793 >>12471327 you're not married and you dont have kids

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 24 23:45:34 2019 No.12472062 >>12469497 1917 by Arthur Herman

Anonymous Fri Jan 25 00:00:40 2019 No.12472139

>>12471327
makes me sad too
the girl is devoid of context, so she can be and mean anything. she looks youngish and in my head i associate that with innocence. its clearly old, and so it seems like something passed.
the death of innocence is what i think of - theres a word for it in another language, nostalgia for a place (or time) you've never been. c'est la vie

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 00:01:53 2019 No.12472144 >>12472139 not that the french is the saying, i think the word is in German or Portuguese. i also mean the photo is old, not the girl

Anonymous Fri Jan 25 00:24:33 2019 No.12472245

Basho - Narrow Road to the Interior and Hojoki

JA Baker - The Peregrine

JD Salingers short stories are written with such a precise sense of detail, voice and presence that it's impossible to not feel like you're /with/ someone as you read. Not obtrusively, just close.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 00:37:29 2019 No.12472300 >>12469952 Based God. I can never make it past an invasion

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 00:39:03 2019 No.12472305 >>12469573 based, seconding this

Anonymous Fri Jan 25 01:36:19 2019 No.12472498

>>12472139

I think you're on to something. I thought the word might be German and what I could find was sensucht, but it doesn't quite fit with the kind of nostalgia you describe.

Then I found the Portuguese say saudade, which I found to be wonderfully distinct in meaning from nostalgia.

Neither of these words work exactly with what you've described though.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 02:17:29 2019 No.12472615 Everytime it's the same answer: read your Wodehouse and wish you were born into wealth and minor antics which resolve for the better in the end

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 04:17:51 2019 No.12472883 >>12469509 This fucking book was so god damn comfy. Peak sit on a porch in summer and sip wine from a jug aesthetic.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 04:26:06 2019 No.12472909 >>12469497 What a lovely girl. And probably an excellent future wife and mother. I'm sure I'd treat her horribly.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 04:29:30 2019 No.12472914 >>12469509 I checked it out of my community college library. Read it in like 3 days, laughed out loud multiple times. Ah, good times (not really, cc is an underworld for the damned )

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 04:30:43 2019 No.12472918 >>12469497 Anyting by PG woodhouse or Terry Prachet

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 04:36:07 2019 No.12472939 >>12472498 Google says it's "fernweh", German word. Saudade is really hard to explain. It's like a very painful longing, with a bit regret and shame. Sometimes it also has a bit of pleasure, though.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 04:37:43 2019 No.12472944 >>12469509 Was going to post this.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 06:47:05 2019 No.12473207 Stoner by John Williams Norwegian Wood by Murakami (check out his short stories as well) Notes from Underground by Dostoyevsky Metamorphosis by Kafka ( The Trial and his short stories are pretty accessible too)

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 07:26:39 2019 No.12473314 >>12469587 It’s not a novel, it’s an extended essay on facing death without god. It’s great, but I dunno if it can be considered “comfy.”

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 07:40:20 2019 No.12473354 >>12473207 >comfy >Kafka

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 07:42:24 2019 No.12473360 >>12473354 Yeah, none of those are "comfy" . Maybe Norwegian Wood. Maybe they're just the four books he read.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 08:16:42 2019 No.12473447 >>12469497 Dickens

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 08:23:58 2019 No.12473474 >>12469586 Confederate general was also very comfy

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 08:28:11 2019 No.12473487 >>12469573 This so much

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 09:21:55 2019 No.12473691 >>12473354 >>12473360 I interpreted "comfy" as something I can finish in a day or two and then spend some time thinking about it. What do you mean by "comfy" then? Something that makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 09:25:13 2019 No.12473707 >>12473691 And OP's definition of comfy includes The Outsider... So I don't see why Kafka's a problem

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 09:46:20 2019 No.12473803 >>12473691 >>12473707 Just something pleasant to read and think about. I'm pretty loose with the rules and definition though.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 13:09:38 2019 No.12474888 >>12473803 If by pleasant you mean something that's intellectually stimulating but not something that induces a cold depression then I stand by my recommendations.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 13:10:52 2019 No.12474898 The Castle - Franz Kafka

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 17:30:08 2019 No.12476255 >>12469501 this, Vonnegut is comfy as fuck check out Cats Cradle or Slapstick

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 17:55:22 2019 No.12476351 File: 941 KB, 1920x1080, 1547072541170.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12469497 Notes from underground.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 25 17:56:24 2019 No.12476357 >>12469505 Kristof Calvo

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