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Anonymous
06/28/26(Sun)14:53:38 No.25371633

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Anonymous 06/28/26(Sun)14:53:38 No.25371633

What’s a book that you read that was simply fun? Or whimsical? Or comfy?

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Anonymous
06/28/26(Sun)14:57:19 No.25371636

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>picrel

Anonymous
06/28/26(Sun)15:04:11 No.25371649

Anonymous 06/28/26(Sun)15:04:11 No.25371649

>>25371633
Gravity's Rainbow

Anonymous
06/28/26(Sun)15:34:09 No.25371695

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>>25371633

Anonymous
06/28/26(Sun)15:35:10 No.25371697

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>>25371633
Can't help it though. This is my favorite.

Anonymous
06/28/26(Sun)15:37:36 No.25371701

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>>25371633
Also

Anonymous
06/29/26(Mon)01:23:05 No.25372602

Anonymous 06/29/26(Mon)01:23:05 No.25372602

I picked up A Voyage to Arcturus recently. Highly recommended. It gets weirder and goofier with every chapter.

Anonymous
06/29/26(Mon)07:22:32 No.25372831

Anonymous 06/29/26(Mon)07:22:32 No.25372831

>>25371695
Go fuck yourself.
Don't fall for that one, OP, this one is just a misery porn.

Anonymous
06/29/26(Mon)22:49:22 No.25374186

Anonymous 06/29/26(Mon)22:49:22 No.25374186

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>>25371701
Vance and Howard are both great. Karl Wagner is another author I read when I want to relax.

Anonymous
06/30/26(Tue)02:11:32 No.25374391

Anonymous 06/30/26(Tue)02:11:32 No.25374391

Lost Horizon by John Hilton

Anonymous
06/30/26(Tue)18:43:48 No.25375740

Anonymous 06/30/26(Tue)18:43:48 No.25375740

Basically anything by Lovecraft, Harlan Ellison, PKD, Arthur C Clarke or Ramsey Campbell. ACC and PKD can be rather intense and feels-y however.

Anonymous
06/30/26(Tue)20:02:55 No.25375858

Anonymous 06/30/26(Tue)20:02:55 No.25375858

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As someone who teaches medieval philosophy, this was amazing. It's also incredibly funny. Everyone knows Name of the Rose but I think this one is better in many ways.

Anonymous
06/30/26(Tue)20:05:19 No.25375861

Anonymous 06/30/26(Tue)20:05:19 No.25375861

>>25375858
It helps also the medieval Italian politics is itself simply hilarious. A battle box of the period would list every last city in every permutation of possible alliances, and it goes on for centuries to the point where giant mercenary companies are being paid just to camp out and stay out of all the current wars between the other mercenaries.

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