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Hello /lit/, i don't browse this board often but i would like to get some helps finding some comfy books. With being comfy i mean cozy and relaxing, while still being a good plot.

What books do you think are comfy and what would you recommend?

Thank you in advance

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8421841

Have you tried INFINITE JEST?

>> No.8421851

>>8421612
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Shane by Jack Schaefer
Kim by Kipling

>> No.8421865

The Magic Mountain
>Hanging out in the cool mountain air and listening to your chums argue philosophy with each other while sipping turkish coffee

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>> No.8421878

Cannery Row is the comfiest I've read in quite a while. I'd recommend it even if you don't like Steinbeck's usual poverty porn.

>> No.8422373

Irrungen Wirrungen-Fontane

>> No.8422386

Thw wheel of time is pretty comfy, and its 14 books so youll be at it a while

>> No.8422416

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

>> No.8422648

war and peace

>> No.8422670

>>8422648
Seconded

Also: I, Claudius, The Histories and Menon

>> No.8422709

>>8421612
proust is p. comfy ngl

>> No.8422835

Memes aside, The Kingkiller Chronicle is pretty good for light, comfy reading.
A book of Laird Barron's short stories would be good as well.

>> No.8422841

Whenever this thread gets posted I always recommend Thomas Hardy's short stories (Wessex Tales). Nobody does comfy like Hardy.

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>>8421612

>> No.8423799

Far Tortuga
House of Leaves

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First half of Fellowship

>> No.8424340

The Aubrey & Maturin series by Patrick O'Brien

>> No.8424344

>>8421612
Ulysses

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I don't care what anyone says, Kerouac is the epitome of comfy. The scenes in his books absolutely REEK of comfiness. Coffee, tea, and the beauty of both nature and human nature are all mentioned lots. There's a scene in pic related where the protagonist (Kerouac) sits out in the snowy woods with his family's dog and a pot of hot coffee and meditates while snuggled in outdoors gear. Again, REALLY comfy.

>> No.8424600

>>8424555
I remember that being a great book, it's been I think 6 years or so since I last read it but all the freight hopping, mountain climbing, carousing with friends and naive buddhism really resonated with my sensibilities at the time. Only ever read this and On The Road but it's hard for me to imagine another Kerouac novel topping this one.

>> No.8424614

>>8421612
Plato's dialogues are pretty comfy t b h

though, start with the apology

>> No.8424639

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was pretty comfy

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Just finished this. It is the epitome of comfy.

>> No.8424735

>>8421612
Growth of the Soil
Death Comes for the Archbishop

>> No.8424747

East of Eden
Cannery Row
Anything Steinbeck, really
Watership Down
Stoner
Moby Dick (seriously)
The Stand

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Posted pic related in another thread yesterday but for real, reading this is like sitting by a fire in a rocking chair and shooting the shit with your best friend who's well versed in Latin literature.

>> No.8425441

>>8421612
the bible

>> No.8425476

>>8422709
This.

Especially In The Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, the comfiest of his works.