What are the comfiest books you've ever read?
>>7747993
Picaresques. So fucking comfy.
Anything by Faulkner.
Any Greek or Roman epic.
Also Beowulf, reading about the cold and cruel world in a heated home with a warm cup of coffee is very comfy.
>>7748001
Erlend Loe - Naïve Super
Got it recommended on here, read it in two evenings under my blankets. Never read a more comfy book.
>>7748020
What did he mean by this?
Also, Lovecraft and Ligotti.
desu I really like to make some tea and read Lovecraft. Dunno why, but it's so comfy.
>>7747993
Gene Wolfe, also Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett!
>>7748047
I meant why did you choose such brutal fucking texts
I don't think of "comfy" literature as literature that makes you feel comfy in contrast to its uncomfyness
>cold and cruel world...
I get the cold part, but the cruel? Really.
...are you British by any chance?
p.s. comfiest book ever is Kitchen by Banana Yushumumumuku
>>7747993
As I Lay Dying, hands down.
>>7747993
The Remains of the Day
>>7747995
I could feel this
I'd go with the Ingenius Alfanhui or personally 100 Years of Solitud
>>7747993
Street of Crocodiles (Penguin Edition)
The last story is so comfy I cried and fell asleep.
>>7748656
Agree completely. So damn comfy. Just thinking about that book makes me comfy.
>>7748680
The last one never got me, the one about the dog, the slow girl living in the street, and the garden hobo always tore me up, completely agree though, read sanitorium under the sign of the hourglass if you can
This Side of Paradise
The Lord of the Rings/Silmarillion
The Old Man and the Sea.
If I'm between 'higher' books, i'll crunch a Diskworld Novel over a few days on ebook. So comfy and easy and usually not disappointing for hemi-adult fantasy literature.
The Sound of the Mountain by Kawabata. Everytime something in the story gets too stressful the fucker moves to his garden and relax with nature.
The Golden Ass
oblomov, ravelstein, vondel's lucifer, bunion's the village, the leopard come to mind. i think anything good's comfy on some level, though - even if it's quite uncomfy on others. kafka's sense of pace is incredible. dostoyevsky's very funny in his way.
Spring Snow desu
Les Enfants Terribles as well
Catcher in the Rye, or any book that takes place over a short period of time
I find Murakami books really comfy desu
Catch 22, actually.
I must've been 12/13 when I read it, I fell in love with Yossarian and the Chaplain. I cried reading Closing Time because they were both old and had families, and I found it absurd that these characters I loved didn't remain frozen in time back in Catch 22, but were living their lives and I was watching it end. I never finished Closing Time.
Dan Brown's books
>>7749573
i think a lot of shit-tier fiction is p comfy desu
>That Vermont autumn
>Patrician rich kids
>Greek, Greek everywhere.
Comfiest book ever.
Murakami, Gogol
>>7748654
Why exactly? How is it comfy?
Siddhartha always seemed mega comfy to me.
Also, Wizard of Earthsea, because I read it when I was 12 and I have a huge nostalgiaboner for it.
I read Catcher in the Rye around Christmas every year, sitting by the window in a blanket with a hot drink.
the start of Robinson Crusoe
Triggers my autism to collect and catalogue things so hard.
>>7747993
Any Dickens is comfy af. As is Hugo and dumas.
Blood Meridian
Just finished this. Peak comfy was reached.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Read it when I was young and it was incredibly comforting. I'll read it to my kids when I have them.
antoine de saint-exuperys aviation books
basically people sitting in cockpits over empty deserts at night musing about stars and how every part of aviation is allegorical to life in some way
tabucchi has the comfiest prose oat
I Capture the Castle
>>7747993
Any of the Hornblower books.
Gormenghast
The Secret History by Donna Tartt. I didn't like the book that much, but I must concede that it is a very comfy book.
my wife entered the room and i was watching porn so im just here while shes still in...hopefully it wont take long
>>7749944
this read like one of those shitty youtube comments that 12 year old boys post to get likes
>>7749598
This.
Travels with Charley
The Histories
>>7747993
>>7747993
This guy right here. Must have read his short prose collections fifteen times by now. I find absurdism to be the comfiest thing; short, playful absurdism, not postmodernly overdone, not surrealistically full of itself, with just the slightest hinted undertone of desperation; all the same laugh-out-loud-and-I-do-mean-out-loud funny. So refreshing. Highly recommended after, between or instead your more patrician reads.
>>7750035
Kharms is patrician though
>>7750035
You're retarded and know fuck all about kharms and Russian absurdism
>>7749608
Might just be like this for me, but it's like the whole book is permeated with the smell of fresh cut cedar and roads after summer rains.
The Hobbit
Tove Jansson's Moomin books
Travels With Charley
>>7747993
Perks of Being a Wallflower
>>7750044
>>7750082
Moomins is a great call.
Also Little, Big by John Crowley is comfy af.
cancer war by solzhenitsyn
>>7749689
Wow, this shit sounds comfy as fuck
>>7750588
Lmao
What does it mean to say a book is 'comfy'?
>>7747993
>60 replies
>no harry potter
Faith in humanity restored.
>>7750814
For me it's that reading it puts you in a calm/nostalgic/pleasant sort of feeling. It's like the feeling of watching snow or rain fall outside a window in book form for me.
Yeats. Transcendentalists. Mozart and Wittgenstein biographies.
>63 replies
>no Owl At Home
Faith in humanity lost.
Look at this picture of Owl. Just look at it! So comfy.
>>7750843
In the same vein I would add the original Winnie the Pooh book with all the stories written my A.A. Milne
Name of the Rose by Eco
Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
Fiery Angel by Briusov
>>7750843
That is insanely uncomfortable as there's snow melting INSIDE his abode. Imagine all the wet coldness. Dreadful.
Anyway, not a book but the audiobook of Die Drei Fragezeichen is comfy as hell.
Also, I'm writing this post from my bed with two blankets and three pillows after spending the wintry day out in the forest, chopping some wood with dad, so we can fire up the oven again next season. I can feel every bone in my body but I will find peace tonight.
The Giver t b h
>>7750904
The snow isn't always there. We're talking about comfy books, not just comfy individual pages. I imagine there are sections of The Three Investigators (which is what you're reading, I don't know why you've translated it into German) that are uncomfy.
The Magic Mountain.
city, by clifford d. simak
>>7750931
Well, that again seems very comfy. Translated it into German because the audiobooks are an absolute classic here, they started producing them in the 1970s and they are still being made. Same cast and everything. It's kind of a phenomena as The Three Investigatiors were never that popular in other countries. And yeah, there were episodes that were really uncomfy, but in the end, it's all the fond memories that outweigh this.
Also comfy:
Alfons Åberg
Pettson och Findus
>>7749685
I really enjoy The Chronicles of Narnia, especially the first and last, but LWW is high up there.
someone link me some nes roms and emulator i think im getting a flue so i want to sit in bed and play childish video,
>>7751644
Link yourself a life, gaylord.
>>7748059
A true bibliophile's book. Roger Mifflin is awesome.
>>7750035
My man, Kharms. I read him and listen to Tom Waits' Rain Dogs all the time. Perfect pairing.
>>7750843
Good book for kids and adults alike. Tear-water tea.
>>7750856
Milne is the ultimate cozy. Here’s Milne reading my favorite chapter from the first Pooh book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sr3-541IIw
>>7749939
Peake!
But nobody mentions The Wind in the Willows?
>>7751735
>>7751750
>>7751759
Nigga, what the fuck are you doing?
The name of le wing
Only read the first forty odd pages of Northern Lights but it felt very comfy. Will probably read the whole thing some point soon when I get time.
Dorian Gray was pretty comfy, especially that second last chapter.
>>7751766
Sorry about that. It's just my OCD acting up again.
>>7751759
Wind in the willows I think was the first actual book I ever read, also very comfy.
invisible cities
dubliners
>>7748022
Nobody ever mentions Clark Ashton Smith. He's got the most lush, overgrown prose and imagery. Recommended for intoxicating dreams.
haroun and the sea of stories
>>7750035
Kharms is based. His work is like reading mid twentieth century Russian greentexts.
>>7750820
> uses "faith in humanity restored"
Faith in humanity stays lost. Good riddance, too.
>>7750820
You... I like you
say what you will about kerouac (and ill probably agree) but On The Road is damn comfy sometimes when he's on a partying streak with Dean
One Hundred Years of Solitude
So comfy. I wish I could forget it so I could read it for the first time again.
>>7747993
I hadn't read any Durrell before this. I picked it only because I am in love with Greece's islands of the Ionian. His writing seems so effortlessly gorgeous. I haven't finished it yet only because I don't want it to finish. I let it lull me to sleep, one journal entry every night. Anyone here read his novels? I must pick them up.
>>7753190
You should read The Dharma Bums as well. It's basically about two hippy homeless guys climbing a mountain together and shit. Mad comfy.
>>7747993
I've only read one Maigret novel but I wasn't expecting it to be so enjoyable. An easy read, to be sure. Probably formulaic -- can't tell since it's my first. Nice and comfy though.
Here it is, the cheesy cover of the 1974 Romanian paperback in all its glory.
On the Road is probably the comfiest book I can think of.
>all that coffee
>all that partying
>that Part where it's just after Christmas and they travel from Massachusetts to the deep south and at one point take their jackets off because they don't need them anymore
>that jazzy as fuck prose
>>7747993
Raymond Chandlers detective novels.
Father Brown, Sherlock Holmes,
>>7753192
You could try reading it in another language. That's what I'm going to do with 100yos.
Also comfy books:
The Moomins by Tove Jansson
A moveable feast by Hem
Pan by Hamsun
Svejk by Hasek
The catcher in the rye by Salinger
Montaigne.
>>7750044
And a rotting corpse
Profane chapters in V.
Anything by Italo Calvino. I don't really like Cosmicomics but a lot of others do. I am a Cat by Natsume is a pretty comfy light hearted satire of society. Mason & Dixon.
>>7753875
Yeah. Vineland is a fun book, too. It's nothing amazing but just a haze of weird scenes and Pynchon jokes. Basically an anime. Actually, it might as well be an anime. Female schools, pervy Japanese sidekick etc
I think there's a pretty big twist at the end most people don't mention, also. I've gotta re-read it just to see if I'm reaching too far.
My diary desu
>>7752994
I have to respectfully disagree, good sir. I just happen to love Kharms' vision of the world.
. . .
They Call Me Capuchin by Daniil Kharms
They call me the Capuchin. For that I'll tear the ears off whomsoever it may be necessary, but meanwhile I get no peace from the fame of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Why did he have to know everything? How to swaddle infants and how to give young girls in marriage - I would also like to know everything. In fact I do know everything, except that I am not so sure of my theories. About infants, I certainly know that they should not be swaddled at all - they should be obliterated. For this I would establish a central pit in the city and would throw the infants into it. And so that the stench of decomposition should not come from the pit, it could be flooded every week with quicklime. Into the same pit I would also stick all Alsatian dogs. Now, about giving young girls in marriage. That, in my view, is even simpler: I would establish a public hall where, say, once a month all the youth would assemble. All of them between seventeen and thirty-five would have to strip naked and parade up and down the hall. If anyone fancied someone, then that pair would go off into a corner and there examine each other in detail. I forgot to say that they would all have to have a card hanging from the neck with their name, surname and address. Then, a letter could be sent to whomever was to someone's taste, to set up a more intimate acquaintance. Should any old man or woman intervene in these matters, I would propose killing them with an axe and dragging them off to the same place as the infants - to the central pit.
I would have written more of the knowledge within me, but unfortunately I have to go to the shop for tobacco. When walking on the street, I always take with me a thick knotty stick. I take it with me in order to batter any infants who may get under my feet. That must be why they called me the Capuchin. But just you wait, you swine, I'll skin your ears yet!
>>7753353
SNUFKIN!
>>7754015
tfw
A tale for the time being by Ruth Ozeki
>>7749612
>Siddhartha
This desu
Also, pic related
>>7754011
>I have to respectfully disagree, good sir.
Why are people who pretend to like Kharms such faggots?
>>7753859
A good choice.
>>7754015
>>7747993
Anything by Bukowski
>>7748546
>someone acknowledges the GOAT kitchen
You have some great taste anon. The surreal scene where she climbs the hotel to bring the guy some food is some of the best (translated) prose I've read.
50 shades of grey
>>7753192
read Marquez's other books if you haven't
Proust, Calvino, Borges, Barthes are some authors that come to mind. Also books written by architects on architecture, notably Ando and Khan but that might be just me.
>>7747993
A Little Prince
Anything by C.S. Lewis
Watership Down
Guys what are some books with beautiful sweet prose? I liked some parts in great Gatsby and one anon suggested dubliners which was also good but I didn't read anything that I would call beautiful.
>>7754564
Bump.
Would anything from pic related qualify?
>>7747993
The Count of Monte Cristo
comfiest chapters are the ones where Dantes is in prison with abbe faria
>>7754579
>Fagles translation of the Odyssey
absolutely yes
I always thought Grapes of Wrath was very pretty, especially in the interstitial chapters
The Stranger is gorgeously written, in a very interesting and thematic way.
Faulkner is always lovely if you don't mind untangling what the hell is going on.
>>7754551
i've really enjoyed the chronicals of narnia since childhood... i even got a lot out of it when i went back and read it last year at the age of 20. but ive been a bit hesitant to read watership down now that im not like 10 years old. do you suppose its worth the read even in my 20s? or would one need a nostalgic/self-reflecting context (so having read it when i was young) to enjoy it?
>>7754598
is it suggested to read fagles before lattimore or fitzgerald?
>>7754618
Well, it depends on who you are, of course, but I go back and read Watership Down every few years and always enjoy it.
It's a really good quest narrative, the prose is lovely, and it gives you something to think about.
It always makes me happy to read, not even in a nostalgic way.
>>7754598
I'll read the stranger then. Thanks!
>>7753875
I feel like V. would be Pynchon's best book if it didn't have the historical chapters. They are wonderful chapters, but Pynchon's attachment to historical narratives is so off-putting
>>7754667
oh my god yes<3
>feast scenes
>poetry
>summer of the late rose
>>7754751
I know! I first read it the month of May, too, so that made it even comfier and more fitting.
A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv4-sgFw3Go
>>7754763
aww
have you read any of the others? most are not as good, some are really kind of not good, but they're all comfy as heck
>>7754653
no problem famiglia
>>7754623
it's the one i first read so I'm biased, but it is remarkably clear and direct
>>7749677
you should check out Death Comes for the Archbishop
>>7754564
This Side of Paradise. You'll wish you could read it forever. Also, The Beautiful and the Damned.
Read the later first, because the former is the better one.
>>7754788
I've read all the good ones. Loved them enough to get this.
The Rings of Saturn
>>7754667
>Redwall
>not Mossflower
Mossflower has one of the comfiest opening scenes yet written desu
All of Chesterton's novels are super comfy.
>>7753192
I'm so happy somebody else posted this. The first time I read it I just felt so relaxed going through all the descriptions of Macondo
>>7747993
The Things by George Perec, must be one of the most comfy things I've ever read.
any interest in a /lit/ - approved comfy books infographic?
>>7757156
fuck yes
>>7747993
Under the lake by Stuart Woods
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by Lovecraft
A year with swollen appendices by Brian Eno
Tree and Leaf by Tolkien has to be my favourite.
>>7747993
A Fan's Notes, by Fred Exley. Women, by Bukowski.
Say what you will about Gaiman, I've yet to find anything comfier than American Gods.
>>7751759
i've still never read wind in the willows
really have to do that soon
portrait of the artist as a young man is very comfy
>>7757293
>The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by Lovecraft
Is that the one with the african goddess? It was pretty comfy desu.
>>7757887
my favorite book so far, way better than reading about sperm whale
>>7757887
Joyce was handsome at his youth
