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What book has the most homely feeling to it?

>> No.7108237

It's a contender between Moers' The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear and White's The Once And Future King

But then again, I'm sure this is completely different for everybody as "homely" is a feeling that can be caused by nostalgia too. Like that comfy book you re-read 8 times when you were 12, in that winter where it snowed so much you didn't have to go to school for a whole week.

>> No.7108240

>>7108227
Robert Frost's poetry

>> No.7108246

Anyone else find Infinite Jest really familiar?

>> No.7108282

>>7108240
No

>> No.7108287

I like that photo a lot.

>> No.7108389

>>7108246
Yeah...but not in a good way...

>> No.7108391

>>7108287
You can save it, friend! It's all yours!

>> No.7108613

>>7108227
Oh shit do you have more comfy pics? This is so nice

>> No.7108680

>>7108237
I was about to be a grammer fag but then I realized you're using the English meaning for homely not the North American.

Carry on my wayward son.

>> No.7108697

little, big

>> No.7108699

>>7108227
My room as a kid used to look almost exactly like this every morning

>> No.7108727
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i really like wharton's illustration of new england winter in "ethan frome"—comfy af

>>7108237
agreed for "the once and future king"

>> No.7109246

Raymond Carver. Not so much a happy homely so much as there are light variants of a resigned sorrow.

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>> No.7109293

>>7109266
>>7109262
>>7108227
Is there a name for these types of pics?
Makes me feel nostalgic for mornings and places I never got to experience.

>> No.7109297
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>>7109293

>> No.7109307

Ted Hughes

>> No.7109311

>>7109293
pleasant?

>> No.7109328

>>7109266
i always wish i could live somewhere where it rains like that constantly but then i always remember that i have to go outside eventually, hahahaha

ah, i still love it tho nwn

>> No.7109808

[blue]House[/blue] of Leaves

>> No.7109822

>>7108227
>what book feels the ugliest
That's a tough one OP.

>> No.7109835

>>7109808
>blue?

>> No.7109860

>>7109262
winter is coming. It dropped down to 10 degrees today, time to make a fire and comfy things up

>> No.7109873

>>7109293
the words retrograde/somber/solitude or cumulous come to mind
>>7109835
>never having skimmed HoL the very least.
the red Minotaur is disappoint

>> No.7109878

My own daily record of events, in all honesty.

>> No.7109898
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7109898

I was going to say In Search of Lost Time because it's the comfiest book I've ever read, but I looked up "homely" and inelegant was part of the definition so now I just don't know.

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>"Look Anon it's finally started snowing! Come here and see! God look it's sticking already, look how thick it is. Can we go out for a walk? Oh come on! Well I'll go without you then, I don't care. Don't, ah don't it tickles. Anon!"

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>"Hey, no my lecture's been called off so I have the day free. Come on scoot over it's chilly in here!"

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>>7109898
just think of homely as familiar, relate able to your own experiences. In Search of lost Time is good for that, especially the Combray chapters

>> No.7109952

>>7109926
>>7109912
girls aren't homely

>> No.7109954

>>7108237
>White's The Once And Future King

Fuck, fantastic pick.

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Dubliners, >>7108246 yeah
>>7109912
>>7109926

I really need a pokemon..

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>>7108227
any trollope

>> No.7110046

invisible cities by calvino

>> No.7110057

>>7108227
House for Mr.Biswas - V.S. Naipaul ...very good