What are the essential comfy books?

What are the essential comfy books?

Nonexistent Knight is top comfy

How difficult is Mason & Dixon?

Not

Not. Just long. Probably Pynchon's best tbph.

Not as dense as GR, then?

Not really. The prose is a bit strange at first, but you can get used to it in no time.

It occasionally glides into denser prose, but its pretty straightforward

Man and his symbols is comfy to me

Just be prepared for oddly capitalized Nouns, like you're reading abstract German

That's a shame, I wonder why Pynchon's prose got softer over time.

fuck off, nick

it's lighter conceptually but denser in prose styling.

I'd say it's about on the level of the more straight-forward bits of GR, I'm pretty sure he started writing it about the same time too. There's plenty of classic Pynchon style to be found in the book.

A Confederacy of Dunces. It's about the neet life but it's funny and a little bit feelsy
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Some of Dostos short stories are pretty comfy too

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Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
Runyon On Broadway, Damon Runyon
Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K Jerome
Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Graham
Alice In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Anything, P.G.Wodehouse

Shantaram

Maturation

I'm reading Idylls of the King right now, and it's comfy af.

Sot Weed Factor at times