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post top tier comfy /lit/
books that are fun, well written, maybe even has some deep ideas sprinkled in, but is easy enough to digest that you can almost shut your brain off while reading and still comprehend

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I'll bump just once and then let it die

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Tolkien is max comfy.

>> No.9903146

>>9902525
Christopher Morley's Parnassus on Wheels, and The Haunted Bookshop. Also serve as a sad reminder that a strong if goofy American book culture thrived here not all that long ago. Both basically inventory classics in a silly, gushing manner. Can't honestly say why I like them so much, but I do.
Robert Louis Stevenson's Travels on a Donkey and An Inland Voyage are far better than the more famous book that I feel inadequately ripped them off, Three Men in a Boat. I love those two.
Still light but headier are David Garnett's Aspects of Love, Go She Must, and Lady into Fox; Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson; and some of Evelyn Waugh's novellas-- A Handful of Dust, White Mischief, Scoop, The Loved One, etc.

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>>9902525
As far as children's books go you cant get much comfier than Redwall.

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This is the first of 5 which ends with a Newbery award winner

>> No.9904638

>>9903892
Came here to post this desu

Redwall is top-tier comfy warm weather reading

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The Face In The Frost

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>> No.9906847

>>9902525
read that when i was a kid and loved it

>> No.9906923

comfy but no kid book?

>> No.9906947

Any of Neal Stephenson's scifi is like this. Snow Crash, Diamond Age, and Anathem are his better works and they're very readable for enjoyment.

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>> No.9907082

Any book on philosophy, metaphysics, mathematics, sciences, history.

>> No.9907087

>>9907082
>easy to digest
>mathematics and metaphysics

>> No.9907091

>>9907074
This guy gets it

>> No.9907137

>>9907074
This book is beautiful.

>> No.9907247

>>9907074

Oh fuck yeah

>> No.9907278

Winnie the Pooh

>> No.9907630

>>9902525
Shirley Jackson's short stories. She essentially writes horror fiction, but also probes at the darkness lurking behind the American dream.

Sam Shepard's 15 One-Act Plays is also great. Even if you don't like reading scripts, his imagery and characterisation is so vivid that it feels like you're reading prose. I would describe his style as 'grotesquely absurd'- he throws everything onto the wall hoping it will stick, and that alone is massively entertaining.

It wasn't really my cup of tea, but you might also enjoy some of Saki's stories. They're tongue-in-cheek but also typically quite dark.