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[ SECRET POST #4143 ]

⌈ Secret Post #4143 ⌋

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[Hank Azaria, The Simpsons]

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[Paul Hollywood, Great British Bake Off]

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[All for One]

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[Plato, philosophy(slash?)]

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I was just thinking about the books I go to when I'm feeling down or when I'm sick and just want something light and comforting and realized they're pretty much all childhood favorites. I don't have much adult fiction that I'd consider a comfort read and I think that's partly to do with the nostalgia of childhood favorites and the fact that they're relatively simple and familiar.

How about you? Do you have any comfort reads that are novels meant for adults?

Despite it's points of inaccuracy, Memoirs of A Geisha I suppose.

Gone With the Wind. And The Complete Sherlock Holmes. In high school they had a constant place on my bed next to my pillow.

Yes on Sherlock Holmes! I don't know why, but I find it very comforting.

Re: Your favorite comfort reads that AREN'T children/YA novels?

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Definitely Wodehouse.

Dorothy Sayers - a lot of mystery writers, really.

Wodehouse is amazing for lifting my mood.

Anything Tolkien. Most of his stuff isn't children's literature. Also the Star Wars EU books, particularly the ones by Zahn.

Charles Bukowski always makes me laugh and makes me feel better about my life.

Perhaps cosy mysteries? Or just cosy sorts of novels in general?

The Dresden Files are a great comfort read because even though I'll know the plot of the book, I'll forget some of the dumb jokes.

There's a reason I read the one with the porn people a lot.

That one is one of my favorites just because Thomas is probably my favorite character. :)

I also may or may not have named my dog after his little sister because I liked the name.

Anything by David Eddings, though I tend to gravitate towards the Belgariad and the Elenium most as comfort reads.

And a lot of Valdemar books.

I used to like Eddings when I was younger, but I find the way he writes female characters pretty infuriating now.

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Maybe World War Z. Only book I have read multiple times.

That's really interesting actually - it's almost hard for me to imagine not rereading things a bunch of times

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Right now, E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman series.

... some of your comfort reads make me feel like I set the bar really low for myself.

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Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett, not sure why but it's one of those books that I can quite happily read over and over when I'm feeling the need for something familiar.

Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas. It's... aptly titled, although there are some serious parts. It's about an Iranian woman (well, girl/young woman in the book) growing up and coming of age in 1970's America. It never fails to cheer me up.

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis and Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams

Most any of Pratchett’s Discworld novels that aren’t the first couple, and his and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens. Robin McKinley’s Sunshine. Pretty much anything by Lois McMaster Bujold. Naomi Novik’s Uprooted and her Temeraire series.

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Just about anything Pratchett.

Almost all the Shopaholic books are comfort reads for me. Becky has her bad points, but she's a fun character. I also enjoy Twenties Girl and Can You Keep A Secret?.

I think for me it's probably "The Phantom of the Opera" because it was the first novel I read that was of an adult nature that really resonated with me-- I mean, I think I read it in 5th grade and fell in love with the story.

Of course, I also liked Dark Angel by VC Andrews, though that wasn't really a comfort read, but it did have one of my favorite characters of all times in it, so there's that

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Re: Your favorite comfort reads that AREN'T children/YA novels?

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Sherlock Holmes, any fantasy I like but especially The Hobbit, and any Jeeves and Bertie Wooster book.

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