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Don Quixote is the single comfiest book

>hobbit
>comfy

Apropos of its pedestrian prose that sends one to sleep?

>>7661088
>that usage of apropos
You clearly are a Hobbit scholar.

[L]ulled into such an opium-like listlessness of vacant, unconscious reverie is this absent-minded youth by the blending cadence of waves with thoughts, that at last he loses his identity; takes the mystic ocean at his feet for the visible image of that deep, blue, bottomless soul, pervading mankind and nature; and every strange, half-seen, gliding, beautiful thing that eludes him; every dimly-discovered, uprising fin of some undiscernible form, seems to him the embodiment of those elusive thoughts that only people the soul by continually flitting through it. In this enchanted mood, thy spirit ebbs away to whence it came; becomes diffused through time and space; like Wickliff's sprinkled Pantheistic ashes, forming at last a part of every shore the round globe over.

What do you mean by "comfy"?

>>7661076
>tfw you will never be this smart poet guy at comfy irish uni, casually talking with friends in latin

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guys it's a post-apocalyptic scenario about pacifist dogs telling stories of how humanity slowly dissipated over thousands of years and living in a country manor with your robot butler and talking dogs taking care of you

>>7661192
I want to read that but can't find it anywhere. Found a ton of Simak's books but not that one.

>>7661209
where are you? they recently republished it in the uk

>>7661178
Hello, Reddit!

Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien is super comfy.

>>7661203
:')

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>>7661076
Infinite meme

There's basically no subtext or onus on the reader to infer due to how maximally descriptive he is when making a point or explaining some aspect of the world.

Lots of Calvino is very cozy

>>7661107
OHHH fuck yes.

>>7661082
Seconding this. Also The Magic Mountain.

Bruno Schulz

In Watermelon Sugar

Leaves of grass

Earth Abides especially after the civilization building starts

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>>7661076
Anna Karenina

Though it isn't always comfy, when it is it's one of the comfiest books you'll ever read.

>Stepan "The Steve" Oblonsky, the comfiest character in all of western literature save Oblomov
>the greatest dog perspective in all of western literature
>those chapters where Levin goes to the club and everything is comfy and socially pleasant

Tolstoy knew comfy like he knew agriculture

Théophile Gautier's short stories are extremely comfy.

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>>7661076
I've been putting myself to sleep with this the past few nights. I don't want it to end.

>>7661076
moby dick

>>7662902
176 pages

Is A Hero of Our Time comfy?

>>7661107
Moby Dick was ultra tier comfy. He had a chapter about the comfiest way to lie in bed on a cold day. I mean.. You can't argue with that.

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The Cannery Row Trilogy:
Tortilla Flat
Cannery Row
Sweet Thursday

>>7662995
not really