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What's the most relaxing, feelgood book you've ever read?

>> No.16789175

Haven't read it yet but I heard really comfy things about Down and Out in Paris and London

>> No.16789184

>>16789143
A lot of folklore is cozy. Not to be contarian but post-apocalyptic stuff make me feel cozy as I gallantly, frivolously eat sausage, crackers, sip soda pop, snug and safe. Mostly folklore, though. Simple, cozy, moralistic with good almost always winning out in the end. Etc. Hope you find some decent results, anon. Good luck

>> No.16789187

>>16789143
God imagine how many bears you would have to kill back then.

>> No.16789188

>>16789184
Any folkore recs? Whare are we talking about here, stuff like Brothers Grimm?

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>>16789143
I read this one as a kid. It was really wholesome and sweet. Most of the shit by Lois Lowry is kinda like that though.

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>>16789143
I felt comfy reading A Canticle for Leibowitz for some reason. Also you should check out this chart

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>>16789188
>>16789188
Just got through perusing a few by this guy. Online. For free. Very solid. Stable. Right is right. Harm is rewarded with justice in the end. No one gets chloroformed and raped without satisfying recompense for their misdeeds. No one gets away with murder. No... well you get the idea.

>> No.16789300

Leaves of Grass

>> No.16789304

>>16789300
absolutely Leaves of Grass
also:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (comfy and fun)
Candide
Siddhartha by Hesse
Plato's Symposium

>> No.16789341

walden

>> No.16789564

thanks for the recs. will check them all out.

>>16789184
i know what you mean about post-apocalyptic comfy. not necessarily post-apocalyptic but I actually found most of Blood Meridian comfy to read

>> No.16789575

>>16789143
sound of waved by Mishima

>> No.16790343

>>16789273
The picture recommendations are excellent. A Canticle for Leb was a hard read for me, I didn't even finish it. Really boring.

>> No.16790378

>>16789143
Aesops Fables

>> No.16790414

Journey by Moonlight is one that comes to mind

>> No.16790539

>>16790343
>I can't read a book for four days
Time for you to find a new board

>> No.16790722

>>16789143
2666

>> No.16790726

>>16789304
>Siddhartha by Hesse
GARBAGE

>> No.16792372

>>16790726
why

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>>16789143
>It was late on a summer night, after eleven o’clock. I turned Freyja southwards, raised the sail and started back along the Lewis shore to Scalpay and the MacSweens. A light northeasterly blew in over my left shoulder. The motion through the still water at the mouth of Loch Seaforth was as easy as those first days’ sailing in Freyja in Flodabay. The water rattled against the boards of the hull like a ruler against the railings of a fence. For all the melancholy of the eighteenth-century history here, I felt happy, at home on the summer night sea. The dogs slept on the boards at my feet. The moon rose as the Shiants sank into the dark and at one in the morning, as Freyja and I slipped in between the arms of Kyles Scalpay, I watched its reflected light around me, scattered and broken on the bubbling of the tide. For all the melancholy of the eighteenth-century history here, I felt happy, at home on the summer night sea. The dogs slept on the boards at my feet. The moon rose as the Shiants sank into the dark and at one in the morning, as Freyja and I slipped in between the arms of Kyles Scalpay, I watched its reflected light around me, scattered and broken on the bubbling of the tide.

>> No.16792412

>>16789187
probably very few if you didn't feed them

>> No.16792413

>>16789143
Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami
The Cathedral of Mist by Paul Willems

>> No.16792424

>>16789143
The first half/three quarters of Killing Commandatore was actually very comfy and enjoyable. Just reading about this dude living in rural Japan, doing art, meeting people in the area, just relaxing was very cool and the supernatural stuff felt almost secondary to me.

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>>16789273
The Aubrey-Maturin books are a great rec.
They're more like intelligently-written genre fiction than the literary works some critics compare them to, but they're definitely comfy.

>> No.16793577

>>16790539
What you said had nothing to do with what I said. Time to retake Reading 101 for Retards.

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>>16789184
>riding out the apocalypse in a comfy catholic monastery

this one was top comfy

>> No.16794390

>>16789143
"Tender is the Night" by Francis Scott Fitzgerald.

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>>16793865
Nope.