>No Happy /lit/ chart>No one usually talks about books that bring them real happiness when it's overLet's change that, post Happy Books, and a nice pic>Example Winnie the Pooh (pic above)Long Side Note THIS IS MORE THAN JUST ME NEEDING HAPPY BOOK RECS DUE TO THE STATE IF MY LIFE. ALL OF US DESERVE THE CHANCE TO BRING OURSELVES AND OTHERS HAPPINESS THROUGH COMRADRY, EVEN FOR THE MORONS (ME), ASSHOLES (ALSO ME), THE FAILING OPTIMIST'S, AND THE ANNOYING SMART ASSES (ALSO ALSO ME). WHATEVER BELIEF YOU HAVE ON THE STATE OF THE WORLD. WE CAN ALL AGREE HAPPINESS IS A GOOD THING AND FINDING A WAY TO PRODUCE AND SHARE IT TO OTHERS THAT NEED/DESERVE IT IS GOOD. SO HAPPY POSTING, WHETHER IN THIS THREAD OR OUTSIDE IT
>The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame >The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde >A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens >Tao Te Ching by Lao Tze (Wilhelm & Lau Translation) >Tunnel In The Sky by Robert A. Heinlein >Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling
>>23292678Thank you, anon. I wish you the best
>>23292708you too
>I Had a Dog and a Cathave a nice day anon
>>23292720Thank you, you too(I can already tell I'm going to love this)
>>23292659Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg. Wagner's only comedy, is about the importance of community, cultural traditions and the beauty of young love. Also happens to be set to some of the most sublime music ever written:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdvw-ljjTI8>At lunch Herr Zumpe relates that the musicians in Leipzig always used the quarrel motive in Die Meistersinger as a signal, and that brings us to this work, “the most optimistic of my works,” says R. “This is the form in which I visualized Germans in their true character, their best light, with a popular poet like Hans Sachs, an enthusiastic youth who, though not a mastersinger, feels poetically, and a respectable pedant. This is their level in life; everything else, elegance, for instance, is affectation; but their feelings are of the highest. Oh, yes, my dearest wife, that’s what I wrote at the time when we were so sad, but you were with me, and we felt that contentment of which Herr Goethe also knew something.”
i found this while archive-digging once
>>23292659W O D E H O U S E
>>23293388he wrote about a hundred novels. do you have any recommendations?
>>23293834I would recommend starting with one of his 'Wooster and Jeeves' short story collections (Carry On, Jeeves & Very Good, Jeeves). Each story takes about 30 minutes to read, so you can try a few, and if you find they don't suit you, there is little loss.If you like him, there are three main series, which are the Wooster and Jeeves, Psmith, and Blandings Castle. These can be read in sequence or at random. My favorite of the Psmith series is 'Psmith in the City', and my favorite of the Blandings Castle series is 'Uncle Fred in the Springtime'.Any other questions? I am a huge Wodehouse fan and I am always happy to promote his works.
>>23292659this was a pretty happy book
>>23293879thank you, anon. I’ll check out some of those short stories tonight after work.
Je suis un chat by Sosekibeautiful book, insightful, and quite heart-warming
>>23293388>>23293879may I also direct your attention to the funny books thread>>23292111
>>23293898It sounds nice, Anon, thank you for the rec
>>23294104Thank you, Anon, I'll check this out someday
>>23292659Mason & Dixon by Pynchon is pretty happy and also hilarious.
>>23292678>>Tao Te Ching by Lao Tze (Wilhelm & Lau Translation)why that translation specifically, anon?
i cant find the top 50 childrens book chart. can an anon here post that?
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>>23292659Nearly all of Washington Irving's novels will leave you in a pleasant, happy state when you are finished with them.
>>23292659>As You Like It>The Poetics of Space>The Prelude>Conversations With Eckermann>Poetry and Truth>Life of Johnson>The Canterbury Tales>Billy Budd>Symposium>Phaedrus>Any giant tome about a historical topic you're interested in
>>23297373thankyou anon, i appreciate it
Read it when I was a kid, stayed in my mind forever. Comfy read
Thread is probably going to be archived soon, so I just want to thank all the posters for giving me and everyone else recs. I wish you all the best
>>23299160you too anon, hope you have fun reading
>>23297444I thought he only wrote short stories and biographies/history
>>23297456think I'll read la poétique de l'espace
>>23292659"Alfanhuí" by Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio is pretty comfy and joypilled
>>23296160It's the best. No question. It fully captures the oceanic bliss of the original and renders it in beautiful English poetry. I've read literally every available translation of the Tao Te Ching that I could find and Wilhelm/Lau is still the best one.
>>23292678I prefer the Arthur Waley translation...
Roald Dahl is peak comfy
Bump.Christ loves you, anon.
>>23292659the pickwick papers
"song kf the lark" buly cather is pretty upbeat. it has some grim parts to it but overall things go well for most of the characters and the main ine most of all.
>>23304000Loved it
