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What's the comfiest book you've ever read?

>> No.16175471

>>16175467
Your diary desu UwU

>> No.16175688

sketches from a hunter's notebook
the tanners
great expectations

and unironically proust

>> No.16175704
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For me, it's The Hobbit. (Written by a little known author called Tolkeen)

>> No.16175705

>>16175467

Invisible Cities
The Sound of the Waves

>> No.16175716

>>16175467
What kind of dog is that?

>> No.16175727

>>16175467
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

>> No.16175763

Either David Copperfield or the Quixote

>> No.16175839

The Secret History
Lord of the Rings
Tattoo
The First Man in Rome

>> No.16175843

children of hurin

>> No.16175847

>>16175467
Cannery Row or Roughing It

>> No.16175853

The City of Dreaming Books

>> No.16175869

bump, I wanna read some comfy books too

>> No.16175883

The bible, it felt like being embraced by god and there isn’t anything confier than that.

>> No.16175985

asoiaf unironically

>> No.16176012

> meandering history of man's relationship with whales, natural history, biography of Herman Melville and autobiography. V comfy. Hoare has a wonderful writing style

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>>16176012
Forgot picture

>> No.16176028

Walden, In search of lost time, the wind up bird chronicles and the magic mountain are a few

>> No.16176077

>>16175716
Lazy faggot

>> No.16176083

>>16175467
Either the Father Browns or Christopher Morley's Parnassus on Wheels/Haunted Bookshop duo. Or any Thorne Smith novel. For something heavier either The Stones of Venice or The Decline of the West (incredibly comfy- which I believe is its secret).

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>>16175985

This 100%

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>> No.16176463

>>16175467
Livy's History of Rome book VII

>> No.16176471

>>16175704
Should I take the sheep pill? How many acres do I need?

>> No.16176501

>>16176471
Not many. Half an acre would be enough. But sheep are stupid and smelly. I don't know why anyone who wasn't actually using them as livestock would want to own them.

>> No.16176529

>>16175467
I'm reading Plato's complete works right now and its pretty comfy.

>> No.16176556

I am a cat

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>>16176556

>> No.16177532

>>16176463
That the Hannibal Wars volume?

>> No.16177543

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

>> No.16177571

Either The Hobbit, Lord Of The RIngs, or The count of monte cristo.

>> No.16177846

>>16175467
I found the chapters In "The Stranger" after the funeral but before the murder very comfy
.

>> No.16177887

May be a weird choice but The Brothers Karamazov was an exceptionally comfy time.
Following Chadyosha as he wandered the town, fixing problems and causing every vagina in a 3 mile radius to gush, was a nice time.

>> No.16177907

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>> No.16178426

>>16177846
>tfw when you will never eat spaghetti and chain smoke in your apartment while watching all of the cute girls go to the theater

>> No.16178436

>>16175704
What a comfy picture

>> No.16178456

>>16175704
cute little sheep

>> No.16178471

The Decameron was pretty comfy. I read it when everything was first locked down and it was a very enjoyable read

>> No.16179632

Franny and Zooey

>> No.16179688
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16179688

unironically

>> No.16179706

>>16175716
Mediterranean mountain terrier

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Pic related for me. Just transports you completely to the time and place and you get really absorbed by all the details of the case.

>> No.16179765

>>16179688
I'm still a little sad that the anime for this one was never finished. Watching a show where the main character is sperging out about economics while traveling with a cute wolf girl was pretty cozy

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>>16179688
>Bought the giant all-in-one collection anniversary hardcover
>Can't read it in bed, font too small, book too big
M-maybe if I start lifting

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>> No.16179816

>>16175467
The Canterbury Tales

>> No.16179818

>>16179804
Can I still buy this? I remember being interested in it back when it was announced but completely forgot about it

>> No.16179822

>>16175467
easily devils by dostoevsky

>> No.16179827

>>16179818
I'm honestly not sure, I bought it when I was fairly new to my job at a bookstore and ordered it in online, and I remember it being fairly limited print, and this was a few years ago.

>> No.16179830

>>16179814
This is peak comfy

>> No.16179832

>>16179827
Yeah I just checked on amazon and it's going for $1100 new. Now I'm sad about something I had completely forgotten

>> No.16179863

The Magic Mountain by Mann
>>16179822
Also comf

>> No.16179882

little, big

>> No.16180035

>>16175467
green hills of africa desu

>> No.16180213

>>16175467
Book of Tobit in Bible. It just warms my heart.

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>>16175467
The Hobbit
Redwall
On the Road; The Dharma Bums; Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
We Can Build You by PKD
The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara
Storm of Steel 1960s version
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman was pretty comfy
The Golden Compass
The first few Song of Ice and Fire books
Calvin & Hobbes
Norwegian Wood
2001: A Space Odyssey was oddly comfy

>> No.16180377

>>16175467
Along Came a Dog

>> No.16180942

Las Bas is beyond confy beyond belief. I was actualy shocked by how little disturbing it is . It's basicaly just a bunch of dudes hanging around on the top of an old bell tower ,eating ,drinking and discussing about Gilles de Rais.

>> No.16181561

>>16177887
We didnt read the same book.

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>>16179814

>> No.16181632

>>16180241
Comfy image.

>> No.16181917

>>16176471
a goat is a better option, mows the law for you and you can milk it. like having a really weird roommate

>> No.16181925

>>16179765
it got me back into anime after a long hiatus

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Sex and Character

>> No.16181958

>>16176501
My dad's cousin owns sheep, he keeps them for some extra income selling their wool. I guess the wool income is more than it takes to tend to them.

>> No.16181969

>>16175467
Tom Jones

>> No.16181977

>>16179882
this would’ve been comfy if it weren’t for the bizarre shit like that rape scene

>> No.16182065

>>16175467
histories -Herodotus

>> No.16182198

>>16175467
Plato’s Symposium. Feeling like you’re actually at some Greek aristocratic dinner party discussing love is cosy as fuuuuck

>> No.16182249

>>16180942
Well.. there is the Madame Chantelouve stuff that culminates in the banal sexual encounter as well as all that running about Lyon and the black mass but you're right overall, it's an extraordinarily comfy book- especially the bell tower conversations on the inferiority of modern astrology as opposed to classic, and the interpolated Gilles de Rais chapters.

>> No.16182256

>>16175688
Based

>> No.16182270

>>16175467
Moby Dick

>> No.16182301

Moby Dick
Magic Mountain
Life: A User’s Manual
A Prayer for Owen Meany

>> No.16182418

>>16177543
When he said
>In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
I felt that

>> No.16182429

>>16182418
Yeah, it's been over a year for me too

>> No.16182581

The Snow Leopard
The Book of Monelle

>> No.16182615

>>16175704

While the dwarves are mentioned twice in The Hobbit as mining coal it is hard to imagine hobbits having the sophisticated chemistry to produce what we think of as the moth-balls mentioned as Bilbo exits Bag End for the last time.

>> No.16182729

>>16175467
Un taxi mauve

>> No.16183221

Lots of great books ITT. I'd like to add:
>East of Eden
>The Martian Chronicles
>the New Testament
>My Antonia
>The Phantom Tollbooth
>Wuthering Heights
>Watership Down
>A Little Princess
>The Moonstone
>The Prisoner of Zenda
>The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

>> No.16184780

>>16181917
My aunt had one and the fucker would stand on cars and other weird spots around the yard.

>> No.16186208

>>16183221
Based Zenda reader.. For you I suggest RLS' Travels on a Donkey and An Inland Voyage. Also the unfinished St. Ives.

>> No.16186710

>>16175467
The Odyssey
Metamorphoses
Genesis

>> No.16186779

>>16186208
Thank you. That's so strange, because I was at a place today called Treasure Island.

>> No.16187439

El Retrato de Dorian Gray

>> No.16187446

El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha y lo acaecido en sus venturosas cabalgatas

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>>16187439

>> No.16188470

>>16186779
The former was one of Steinbeck's favorite books (Travels with Charlie was inspired by it).

>> No.16188499

>>16186779
Then you're fated to love RLS and join the wee brotherhood of his steadfast espousers here

>> No.16188625

The Princess and the Goblin

>> No.16188690

Against Nature
A Sportsman's Sketches
The Remains of the Day

>> No.16189070

Growth of the Soil

Just pure comfy start to finish

>> No.16190015

>>16175467
Boswell's Life; Irving's Geoffrey Crayon

>> No.16190313

>>16175467
>Wallace Stevens’ collected poems
>Moby Dick
>Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by Ashbery
>Walking in Martha’s Vineyard by Franz Wright

Poetry can potentially be very comfy

>> No.16190315

Strange Weather in Tokyo by Kawakami