/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16702655]

what's the comfiest book you ever read?

[Anonymous No.16702665]

Use a real word retarded gorilla nigger.

[Anonymous No.16702672]

>>16702655
Complete works of Plato.
Grimm's Fairy Tales.
Prose Edda.

[Anonymous No.16702729]

Musashi is pretty comfy

[Anonymous No.16702731]

Cannery Row

[Anonymous No.16702742]

In Search Of Lost Time

[Anonymous No.16702753]

It is not the book that is comfy, but the state of your being.

[Anonymous No.16702757]

>>16702731
based

[Anonymous No.16702760]

If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino

[Anonymous No.16702780]

>>16702731
absolutely based, what beautiful book

[Anonymous No.16702789]

Twice Told Tales

[Anonymous No.16702795]

>>16702655
The highest grade of comfiness achievable by a human being is reading Treasure Island in an Autum evening, sitting on wing chair alongside the fireplace, tucked with your favorite blanket and sipping on a hot chocolate, all while hearing the gentle tapping of the light rain on your manor house's windows.

[Anonymous No.16702815]

>>16702655

[Anonymous No.16702825]

[Anonymous No.16702842]

Heat by Mike lupica

Bless me, ultima by rudolfo anaya

I just found out they made a movie about the second one.
brb gonna go watch it

[Anonymous No.16702868]

>>16702655
Roughing It by Mark Twain
The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
Absalom, Absalom! by Faulkner

[Anonymous No.16702881]

>>16702655
walden,
>>16702672
ive never seen someone else say plato, but i have always found that they are peak comfy, just a bunch of homies hanging out having a good time.
no worry or care at all

[Anonymous No.16702886]

>>16702742
this

[Anonymous No.16702984]

>>16702655
>comfy books
>no one has said The Wind in the Willows
the fuck ya'll

[Anonymous No.16702990]

>>16702655
the man who was Thursday

[Anonymous No.16703050]

>>16702655
swiss family robinson

[Anonymous No.16703073]

>Kafka and The Tartar Steppe

Anyone remember this anon from a few weeks ago who challenged what comfy meant?It gave me the lolz

[Anonymous No.16703132]

>>16702795
>Cannery Row
Sorry, but light rain, heavy rain, any kind of rain means leaks for a manor house, and you can't have perfect peace of mind when you know there is water damage happening somewhere. A chill wind howling around the eaves would be more suitable.

[Anonymous No.16703195]

>>16702655
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone

[Anonymous No.16703219]

>>16702795
Nice LARP

[Anonymous No.16703234]

>>16702868
>Absalom, Absalom! by Faulkner

Incredible book but not comfy at all lmao

[Anonymous No.16703239]

Moby Dick and War & Peace are peak comfy for me

[Anonymous No.16703362]

>>16702655
The Tom Bombadil chapter of LotR

[Anonymous No.16703376]

>>16702655
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami.

[Anonymous No.16703387]

>>16702742
Not a fan of jewy bourgeois ramblings, especially those that trail on for a million fucking pages.

[Anonymous No.16703402]

the dfw essay where he's at the state fair

[Anonymous No.16703406]

“Life a user’s manual” by Georges Perec of course.

[Anonymous No.16704401]

>>16703234
What I found comfy about it is how it's told entirely through memories and dialogs.

[Anonymous No.16704439]

The Martian

[Anonymous No.16705136]

>>16702655
Dandelion Wine

[Anonymous No.16705143]

>>16703239
mein brethren

[Anonymous No.16705145]

>>16702655
Little House on the Prairie
Anne of Green Gables
An Old Fashioned Girl

[Anonymous No.16705147]

>>16702655
The Hobbit.

[Anonymous No.16705151]

>>16702655
Moby Dick

[Anonymous No.16705158]

>>16702881
Shit, yeah. Never has a book made me appreciate simplicity as much as Walden.

[Anonymous No.16705162]

>>16702868
>Roughing It by Mark Twain
I’ll add Innocents Abroad, although I always crack up in hysterics when I read the part where they go to Italy.

[Anonymous No.16705178]

>>16703073
>yeah, I’m probably gonna die, but I’m going through a moment of transcendental insight atm so I’m alright with that
Peak comfy

[Anonymous No.16705456]

>>16702655
Walden

[Anonymous No.16705467]

>>16702868
>>16703234
I found Absalom very comfy as well.

[Anonymous No.16705489]

The Hobbit.

>>16702672
>Complete works of Plato

Poser.

>>16703073
>>16703239
>>16705151
Posers.

[Anonymous No.16705530]

>>16702655
Ringing Cedars of Russia. It makes me want to die in the taiga.

[Anonymous No.16705549]

Before the Japs came up with SoL manga, there was this (and Ozu films I guess).

[Anonymous No.16705588]

>>16705489
go read War and Peace immediately, it is by far comfier than the Hobbit, it's practically a soap opera half the time about teenagers in Noble Napoleonic Russia, it's impossible to overstate the comfiness of the chapter where they are staying at the Rostov forest house in winter and put on a little play. Moby Dick is also exceptionally comfy because of the brotherly camaraderie and being stuck on a little vessel amid the cold tossing seas when you are not galvanized to action by the heroic impulse when you need to do stuff. The section with Queequeg at the beginning in the inn and the infamous sperm-mushing section are just straight ahead comfiness, if rather gay. The philosophical and fauna-based meanderings also add to the atmosphere of comfiness if you are at all autistic.

[Anonymous No.16705589]

>>16702795
fucking based. i remember having many comfy nights as a child with Treasure Island & hot choccy.

[Anonymous No.16705592]

harry potter was pretty comfy
plato's dialogues are also pretty comfy when socrates goes on and on and on
Gibbon is especially comfy
Darwin is also comfy, so is Adam Smith, but Marx is not as comfy reading-wise
Moby Dick is a comfy audiobook listen

[Anonymous No.16705599]

>>16702655
the country of the pointed firs by sarah orne jewett

[Anonymous No.16705609]

>>16702655
Oblomov

[Anonymous No.16705619]

>>16705489
The Hobbit is garbage for kids. Retard

[Anonymous No.16705627]

>>16702655
Don Quixote is quite comfy desu

[Anonymous No.16705632]

[Anonymous No.16705689]

>>16702815
This probably

[Anonymous No.16705701]

I find Robin Hood incredibly comfy. Sure it’s meant for kids but fuck it, it’s fun.

[Anonymous No.16705779]

>>16702655
Buddenbrooks

[Anonymous No.16705819]

>>16705701
based, wind in the willows too

[Anonymous No.16705828]

>>16702795
this, but with The Master of Ballantrae instead of TI

[Anonymous No.16705858]

>>16702655
Apu likes to be read stories he already knows when we're putting him to bed. I think it's simply because he can easily rejoin the narrative as he drifts in and out while falling asleep. Chairman Meow also has to be curled up on his chest.

[Anonymous No.16705869]

>>16703362
>The Tom Bombadil chapter of LotR
I like the Rob Inglis audiobook while falling asleep, but I'd pay $ for an edit where all the songs are removed.

[Anonymous No.16705896]

master & the margarita.
or river god by wilbur smith
or

[Anonymous No.16705983]

>>16702984
Best appreciated in the spring, right about the time when it starts to get really warm, April or May abouts.

[Anonymous No.16705997]

>>16702655
the sailor who fell from grace with the sea

[Anonymous No.16706014]

>>16703073
Nothing comfier than an all encompassing sense of dread.

[Anonymous No.16706060]

The Hobbit was very comfy when I skipped school and read it in the morning.

[Anonymous No.16706115]

>>16705592
>Marx is not as comfy reading-wise
nigga want to burn people and starting class riot, of course is not comfy

[Anonymous No.16706150]

>>16705997
I liked it, it is comfy at times but very uncomfy at other times.

[Anonymous No.16706161]

>>16702655
The Cat by Georges Simenon

[Anonymous No.16706232]

>>16705588
>and the infamous sperm-mushing section
Which section are you talking about?
Which chapter?
I wanna confirm if that's the one I'm thinking about. Kek

>The philosophical and fauna-based meanderings also add to the atmosphere of comfiness if you are at all autistic.
This guy know it. It gets really cozy after a while.

[Anonymous No.16706264]

[Anonymous No.16706266]

>>16702655
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

[Anonymous No.16706274]

If you like short stories Malgudi Days is pretty comfy.

[Anonymous No.16706280]

>>16705828
I haven't read it, is it any good? I think when Stevenson is at his best he is unbeatable in terms of comfiness.

[Anonymous No.16706434]

>>16702655
>How can I rest? How can I be at peace? Despair is in my heart.
Not Gilgamesh

[Anonymous No.16706442]

>>16706280
If you want peak comfy RLS read An Inland Voyage and Travels on a Donkey

[Anonymous No.16706484]

>>16706266
Apart from that gay prank... i was getting rock solid, then i realized i was being blown by a gay japanese man.

[Anonymous No.16706505]

moomin books, no contest. I don't know how good the translations are but in the swedish they hold up really well. Seen as a kind of lovely, familiar character-studies they are well worth the time for adults.

[Anonymous No.16706528]

>>16702655
House of the dead + A world apart by Herling-Grudzinski

[Anonymous No.16706538]

>>16702655

Murder on the orient express.

[Anonymous No.16706554]

Robinson Crusoe, with a dog/cat on your lap, a small number of cigarettes and a pot of coffee.

[Anonymous No.16706556]

>>16703387
I take it you haven't read it. Proust is constantly making fun of the bourgeoisie.

[Anonymous No.16706561]

>>16703402
I would agree with this, DFW's essays and short stories are all very comfy. Pale King is more comfy than Infinite Jest, too.

[Anonymous No.16706642]

>>16706442
Nice, thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.16706802]

>>16702655
Middlemarch

[Anonymous No.16706827]

>>16702655
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
The Master and Margarita.

[Anonymous No.16706830]

>>16702655
X-Risk

[Anonymous No.16706905]

>>16706556
Not him but that sort of ironic self-mockery is peak bougie behavior.

[Anonymous No.16706994]

>>16705588
Seething pseud

[Anonymous No.16707234]

>>16702655
>comfiest
Lost Horizon by Hilton
>max comfy
A River Runs Through It
A Month In The Country by Carr
A Canticle for Liebowitz by Miller
Wind In The Willows by Grahame
Anything by Washington Irving
Anything by Robert Lewis Stevenson
Gnomes by Huygen
>others
This is my comfy shelf, I don't know about you guys but lay the Inklings are peak comfy. I'm also reading the Arthurian Romances right now, not sure if it's comfy but Rackham's illustrations make anything comfy.

[Anonymous No.16707641]

>>16702753
underrated post

[Anonymous No.16707653]

>>16702655
desu? journey to the west or quixote

[Anonymous No.16707683]

Lonesome dove first half is pretty comfy then it becomes stressfull as hell

[Anonymous No.16707724]

>>16703239
For me it's Ishmael walking to the inn and Andre hearing Natasha sing

[Anonymous No.16707780]

>>16705162
That's what makes it comfy, all of his travelogue writing is absolutely hysterical.

[Anonymous No.16707908]

The Master & Margarita
The Hobbit
The Horse and His Boy

[Anonymous No.16708036]

Sea of ink
Invisible cities

[Anonymous No.16708046]

>>16707908
Damn. This is the only other time I've seen someone else recognize how comfy The Horse and His Boy is.

[Anonymous No.16708092]

>>16706905
Basado

[Anonymous No.16708110]

>>16702655
The ultimate comfy kino

[Anonymous No.16708130]

>>16702655
I remember taking a bus to the university on a sunny day during fall. I was reading Anna Karenina then, and I think it was the part when Levin goes to work in the fields with the peasants. Great memory.

[Anonymous No.16708178]

>>16708130
Levin chapters are the best parts of the book.

[Anonymous No.16708405]

>>16705489
you're the poser for choosing Hobbit-of-reddit-tier instead of LoTR-chad-YA-sexmaniac-tier

POSER

[Anonymous No.16708492]

Country house murder mysteries are usually very comfy, An English Murder being a prime example and also the last one I read

[Anonymous No.16708544]

>>16702655
Livy's History of Rome book VII

[Anonymous No.16708574]

[Anonymous No.16708612]

>>16706280
Of course it is good, that's why I recommended it. senpai.

[Anonymous No.16708626]

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Just finishing it now, I think that anon was right in saying books about memories and time w/ surrealist magical aspects are ultra comfy. Gonna be sad seeing it finished :(

[Anonymous No.16708693]

Jorge Luis Borges- Ficciones

[Anonymous No.16708695]

city by clifford d simak

[Anonymous No.16708798]

>>16702655
Sartor Resartus.

>>16702672
Also this.

[Anonymous No.16708799]

>>16708695
Woof!

[Anonymous No.16708810]

>>16705858
VERY based.

[Anonymous No.16709909]

>>16702795
El más alto grado de confortabilidad asequible por un ser humano implica leer, en una tarde de otoño, “La isla del tesoro”, sentado en una mecedora junto a la chimenea, arropado en tu manta favorita sorbiendo chocolate caliente, todo ello mientras escuchas el suave golpeteo de una lluvia leve contra las ventanas de tu casa señorial”

[Anonymous No.16709945]

>>16708405
t. Teen who hasn't lived a tough life

[Anonymous No.16710106]

>>16702868
>>16703234
Also have a hard time seeing Absalom as comfy. To me it feels like a Shakespearean tragedy being recreated inside the fever dream of a dying civil war soldier. Probably my favorite novel

[Anonymous No.16710247]

This and A River Runs Through It are my top picks.

[Anonymous No.16710263]

Banana Yoshimoto is pretty much unmatched for comfort

[Anonymous No.16710284]

>>16706505
Yes.

[Anonymous No.16710643]

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
A Sand Country Almanac
Desert Solitaire
Lord of the Rings
Hobbit
Silmarillion
Wind in the Willows
Peregrine / Hill of Summer
Silent Spring

[Anonymous No.16710666]

>>16710247
Based
A River Runs Through It is gorgeous.

[Anonymous No.16710797]

>>16706264
based, reading this right now
surprised this isn't more popular, it seems to have a few fans on /lit/ though

[Anonymous No.16710901]

>>16706802
oh man ive been looking for this novel for so long. i read it as a teenager and its plot would randomly hit me in daily life.

[Anonymous No.16711331]

>>16706905
true

[Anonymous No.16711397]

>>16702731
>>16702780
>>16702757
The movie is comfy too

[Anonymous No.16711408]

>>16709909
Basado, mi anónimo traductor.

[Anonymous No.16712107]

>>16702655
anything written by tolstoy