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Recommend comfy books, lads.

>> No.6676715

I've always enjoyed Wodehouse for a light read

>> No.6676724

Calvino. The Nonexistant Knight and Invisible Cities specifically.

>> No.6676738

True Grit

>> No.6676756

>>6676710

The life described here sounds great

>> No.6676758

what does /lit/ find the comfiest way to read?

i prefer a bath tbh.

>> No.6676778
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6676778

Watching MTV on mute and a Crust band is pretty surreal. You see all these guys getting all in my face and saying nothing, with their gestures and intense fake emotional displays. Everybody should try this.

>> No.6676790

>>6676758
in a window indent with many cushions and blankets

>> No.6676829

>>6676758

In a hip cafe full of qts and pleasant aromas

>> No.6676909

>>6676829
Me too, but they sometimes play the music too loud

>> No.6676952

>>6676909

Ay, the things we put up with

>> No.6676961

The Sound of Waves is pretty damn comfy in my opinion.

>> No.6678594

>>6676710
In Search of Lost Time

>> No.6678746

>>6676961
Are you trying to trick people into becoming depressed homosexuals?

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>>6676710
This author's great at skating the line between comfort and education
>>6678746
>becoming
good one

>> No.6678772

>>6678763
>implying homosexuals can't become depressed

>> No.6678774

>>6678772
Who do you think the main /lit/ demographic is?
Three guesses.

>> No.6678778

>>6678746

Come here you, it's time to run our despairing pricks together

>> No.6678781

>>6678774
bubbly bisexual girls tbh

>> No.6678795

>>6676756
last man detected

>> No.6678810

what is the comfiest job?
and no barista is not the comfiest job and pretty gay

>> No.6678813

>>6678810
trick question, the answer is NEET

>> No.6678821

>>6678813
....well, if you can pay for it, which i can't b/c as a NEET myself i live at home, but in poverty unable to really do anything.

>> No.6678829

>>6676758
In my reading chair in the evening in the winter with a plaid alpaca blanket over my legs and waist.

>> No.6678833

>>6678810
lighthouse keeper

editor(in the book sense)

fine artist, after becoming established

>> No.6678835

>>6678795
Dammit, I fell for it too.

>> No.6678844

>>6678810

I'm a baker, I work 4 days a week and am on my own for the bulk of my shift. I listen to NPR and podcasts, and read whenever there's a lull. I have plenty of time to read, write, and draw outside of work.

>> No.6678855

>>6678833
established fine artist would be god-tier. but like 1 in a million :.(

im thinking of going for work in a community library

>> No.6678865

>>6678844
do you have to wake up at like 4am?


Also just generally, im scared you could live the comfy life for a few years, then have one hell of an existential crisis when you realize what youve been doing, if you're not mentally prepared for it.

>> No.6678885

Reading the Stranger by Camus. Is it normal to find it comfy?

>> No.6678916

>>6678885
If you find comfort in not being challenged, then yes.

>> No.6678917

how to be comfy.

be entirely separate from:

all engineers, and as much as 'engineering' as a symbol or reason for life or marketing ploy.

all lawyers

most middle-class or lower-class people in a social relatinonship where they are wanting something you can give them. (it gets them often nervous and they act weird or grabby or demanding or too polite)

anyone still interested in BMWs and Audis after the age of 17

Anyone that likes to go to the carribean or las vegas for a week

anyone who doesn't read literature

people who exercise for muscles

>> No.6678930

Comfiest lit similar to Wes Anderson's GBH? I love the aristocracy, the color, the strange characters.

>> No.6678944

>>6676710
Invisible Cities is the comfiest book ever.

Ficciones is also great.

I found Moby-Dick to be quite hyggelig.

>> No.6678985
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6678985

The comfiest interior design is islamic interior design

>> No.6679000

>>6678930
Well, you could consult the author whose works inspired GBH, Stefan Zweig. I've only read one of his novels, though, and didn't find it to be comfy.

>> No.6679031

>>6678985
But that looks so visceral and hot, how could you read there?

>> No.6679050

>>6679031
The walls are constructed with holes so that there will be good air ventilation. It's probably comfy and cool in there

>> No.6679073

>>6678944
Nice try, ISIS

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>>6679073
i think you meant to reply to me

ISIS ignores centuries of islamic tradition and literature so that they can feel the personal pleasure of killing men, raping women, and destroying buildings.

>> No.6679103

Lucky Jim, although its a better fit for reading by the fire in fall. Anyone know any comfy novels set in sunny spain, italy, or southern france?

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6679121

do you guys remember that one painting always posted in the art threads, the one depicting a scene similar to pice relates, though at night, with ships and sails toward the left?

>> No.6679139

>>6679086
Why don't you post art created by Muslims then? All these paintings are by Europeans

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>>6679121
neverind, i found it. i always thought this seemed comfortable.

>> No.6679146

>>6679121
George Atkinson Grimshaw. He has a bunch of ones from there and around Scotland and Britain

>> No.6679156

>>6679144
Post it till it's mediocre, /lit/. You can do it.

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>>6679139
I mostly like islamic architecture, interior design, and garden design. Their art is stifled by the lack of human representation, in my opinion, as I love art that depicts human figures and faces, though I sometimes enjoy the geometric art. But really, traditional islamic art is always ornament: either to architecture or to literature.

This is why i like european paintings of islamic subjects: they are generally simply not available from islamic sources.

>> No.6679175

>>6679156
its already quite mediocre

>> No.6679188

>>6679156
at some point it was posted in every art thread for a month straight it seemed, i don't think it has anything more to lose

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>>6679160
>Their art is stifled by the lack of human representation
>traditional islamic art is always ornament

so true, i love the resulting architecture

>> No.6679233

>>6678821
You don't need to do much to be comfy tbh. All you need is thrift store rags and second hand books.

>> No.6679253

>>6678865
>then have one hell of an existential crisis when you realize what youve been doing
What do you mean by this? Realising that you should have been a careerist all along or something?