Comfy books? Been reading too much heavy ,dense shit

[Anonymous No.19381377]

[Anonymous No.19381379]

>>19381377
Monte Cristo
Musashi
Hyperion
The Old Man and the Sea

[Anonymous No.19381388]

>>19381377
Murakami
Bukowski novels
Cannery Row by Steinbeck
The Witcher short stories

[Anonymous No.19381413]

Swann's way is comfy, have not read the rest of ISOLT
Almost any Murakami novel
Sherlock Holmes mysteries
Shogun by Clavell
Yeats' poetry and Shakespeare's sonnets
I also think Ishiguro is comfy but can be a bit panic inducing
A farewell to arms and The sun also rises
Charles bukowski is funny
Charles dickens is funny and good, especially David Copperfield is a great winter novel.
The dresden files is pretty cool if you like that kind of thing.
A portrait of the artist as a young man is pretty cozy as well. It's nice to see the last days of Joyce as a sane man.

[Anonymous No.19381426]

>>19381388
Seconding Buk. I'd recommend Factotum. If you want something funny A Confederacy of Dunces or Catch-22.

[Anonymous No.19381452]

Jeeves and Wooster
Flashman
Dickens, Marquez
Is what comes to mind instantly.

[Anonymous No.19381524]

>>19381379
I'm reading Hyperion now, they've just got to Sol's story in the windwagon and it's cosy as fuck.

>>19381377
Anything by Calvino is comfy.

[Anonymous No.19381686]

>>19381377
Pick a Robertson Davies trilogy, but my rec is The Deptford.

[Anonymous No.19381690]

>>19381413
Most of these are good comfy recs, OP.

[Anonymous No.19381828]

>>19381377
Hitchiker’s Guide
The Haunting of Hill House
Most YA, I don’t know why.

[Anonymous No.19381863]

>>19381377
Star Trek, Hardy Boys, & Doctor Who novels.

[Anonymouṡ No.19382240]

>>19381377

COMFY FICTION

>Guards! Guards! [+ Men At Arms + Feet Of Clay], Terry Pratchett
It was a five hundred mile journey and, surprisingly, quite uneventful. People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else."

>The Steve Costigan Stories, Robert E Howard
"The rules is, nothing barred except hittin' below the belt — in the way of punches, I mean. Break when I say so, and hit on the breakaway if you wanta. Seconds will kindly refrain from hittin' the other man with the water bucket. Ready?"

>The Jeeves books, P.G.Wodehouse
Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

>Lake Woebegone Days, Garrison Keillor
Even the night he came so close to leaving, Harold had *that* on his mind about ten minutes later. She went to bed with her back turned to him and wouldn't roll over, but the bed had a trough down the middle (from *that*), and when she was half asleep and her grip on the mattress loosened, she fell into the trough and there he was, waiting.

>The Broadway Stories, Damon Runyon
All of a sudden, a very, very beautiful young doll who is about forty per cent. in and sixty per cent. out of an evening gown walks right up to us sitting there, and holds out her hand to me, and speaks as follows: 'Do you remember me?'

>The Sherlock Holmes Stories, Arthur Conan Doyle
"I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran."
"Indeed, Doctor,” said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat."
"I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I have traced her. What has she been saying to you?"
"It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes.
"What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man furiously.
"But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my companion imperturbably.

>Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

>Under Milk Wood, Dylan Thomas
His fawning measly quarter-smile freezes. Sly and silent, he foxes into his chemist's den and there, in a hiss and prussic circle of cauldrons and phials brimful with pox and the Black Death, cooks up a fricassee of deadly nightshade, nicotine, hot frog, cyanide and bat-spit for his needling stalactite hag and bednag of a pokerbacked nutcracker wife.

[Anonymous No.19382283]

>>19381377
I thought Asleep in the Sun by Bioy Casares was very comfy

[Anonymous No.19382379]

A Hero of Our Time

[Anonymous No.19382391]

>>19381377
Fantasy is peak comfy. Some comfy recs:
Assassin's Apprentice
Fafhrd & Grey Mouser
Dying Earth
Conan
Earthsea
Drizzt Dourden
Song of Ice and Fire

[Anonymous No.19382674]

>>19382391
Wow all of those are garbage and not actual fantasy except Conan.

[Anonymous No.19382841]

The old man and the sea

[Anonymous No.19382868]

>>19381377

The Pickwick papers
Norwegian Wood

[Anonymous No.19382874]

>>19382674
Amazed you can post here with an IQ that low. Good job buddy.
What are some actual fantasy books in your mind? I have a cousin with downs I'd love to get him a book he can enjoy.

[Anonymous No.19383043]

Anything Roger Zelazny.

Black Company series by Glen Cook

Count of Monte Cristo

The Belgariad and Malloreon by David Eddings

The Aubrey-Maturin (aka Master and Commander) series

[Anonymous No.19383056]

>>19381452
>>19382240
I've been reading wodehouse for thirty to forty five minutes every night before bed and it is the perfect comfytier, undemanding, /lit/ for that sort of thing.

[Anonymous No.19383068]

>>19381377
Fellowship of the Ring

[Anonymous No.19383073]

>>19383068
came to post Tolkien. November seems to be the perfect month for it.

[Anonymous No.19383080]

>>19381377
The Aubrey Maturin series by Patrick O'Brien

[Anonymous No.19384393]

Game of thrones

[Anonymous No.19385712]

>>19381377
Winnie the Pooh book

[Anonymous No.19385738]

>>19381377
Matteo Bandello's short stories. I ordered a copy after watching the film Bawdy Tales.

[Anonymous No.19386033]

>>19382674
Why does this place attract/breed the worst kind of contrarianism

[Anonymous No.19387155]

>>19381686
This. Surprised it isn't read more here.

[Anonymous No.19387180]

>>19382841
good rec desu

[Anonymous No.19387243]

>>19381377
Been trying to shill this for a while here, it's pure comfy. Peter Sagamore and Katherine Shorter Sherritt are a married couple of authors. Katherine is eight months pregnant and asks Peter to take her on a boating trip and to tell her stories.

>>19381379
>Monte Cristo
I wouldn't call this comfy. The first fifth is bad-ass adventure, then the next two-fifths is a massive lull before the last two-fifths bring it all back together.
>>19382841
>The Old Man and the Sea
Not comfy at all. Straight up depressing.

>>19381388
Seconding Cannery Row, one of the comfiest books I've ever read.

>>19381413
>Shakeseare's sonnets
Good answer.
>A Farewell to Arms
Has a few bits which are very cozy, but on the whole not comfy.

>>19381452
>>19383056
I wish that Wodehouse got more recognition on /lit/, and comedies of manners in general.

>>19385712
I read Michael and Mary by Milne earlier this fall and it was supremely comfy.

[Anonymous No.19387263]

>>19381377
Comfy.