what is the single most KINO book you've read that's not set in europe or north america? talking about comfiness and aesthetics, plot is secondary.
What is the single most KINO book you've read that's not set in europe or north america...
Connor Bennett
Juan Evans
>kino
>comfiness
wut
Jonathan Phillips
Just finished pic related, I'm inclined to say it fits your description.
Jackson Thomas
define comfiness? i personally would describe it as absorbing, well-written atmosphere that makes you imagine it vividly and even feel it. it can be cozy, breathtaking, calming, mildly erotic, and also sad, "empty" (like op pic), even neutral, but it does NOT induce rage, disgust, cringe, etc
Adrian Cox
>not set in europe or north america
>comfiness and aesthetics
The plot is tremendously engrossing too, fyi.
James Gonzalez
Beauty and Sadness
Kayden Butler
The Good Earth by Pearl s Buck was pretty sad/comfy. But it was the plot that made it that way
Wyatt Evans
Bro this is one my favorites but I wouldn't call it comfy. Also several sections take place in Europe.
But yeah, read Latin-American lit, OP. Try One Hundred Years of Solitude, Yea Forums hates it but it's GOAT aesthetics and comfiness
David Perez
Sound and Waves
Connor Parker
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Levi Wilson
*Of Sound and Waves
Josiah Campbell
Mexico is North America buddy and everything else is set in Europe
Jaxon Thomas
This, and Love In The Time of Cholera
Lord Jim, IIRC
I haven't read Kim by Kipling but I imagine it has that feel too (his poems certainly do)
IIRC Empire of the Sun by Ballard is oddly cosy considering there's a war on, and not even a low-tech old-school war
I think being Britbong has culturally conditioned me to associate colonial settings and adventures with a nostalgic cosiness. Which seems all kinds of messed up really, but there you go
Ian Scott
Snow Country has that exotic cosiness you seem to be after
Jacob Wilson
I just found the combination of kino and comfiness a bit weird. I guess I mentally associate kino more with epic spectacle, which is kind of the opposite of comfiness.
Parker King
i'm op, Marquez and Borges are undoubtedly among my favorite authors.
seems like a solid one. i wouldn't call it 'exotic' though (this word has unlikable undertones imo) more like "completely foreign"
i associate kino with thoughtful, aesthetic, non-mainstream stuff
Parker Price
Alamayers Folly, Outcast of the Islands and lots of other Conrad spring to mind. Though for sheer comfiness you can't beat O'Brian
Luke Ward
thanks, fren
my own favorites so far are many of Borges' short stories, the cultural difference makes it even more dizzingly surreal.
Hunter Watson
Second this
Charles Gray
The Lord of the Rings
Cooper Johnson
Book of the New Sun
Jacob Wood
Gentleman Bastard series.
The Lies of Locke Lamora.
Mason Robinson
Midnight's Children
Gavin Ward
One Hundred Years is NOT comfy. Too much turnover in both setting and characters. You can't settle into it, ever.
also, starting around page 150 it goes to shit and doesn't get better until the last 50 pages. that's a lot of bull to sift through.
Henry Diaz
Moby Dick is set in the ocean, so I guess that. Pretty comfy over all, but also intense sometimes. And of course HIGHLY aesthetic
Oliver Cook
I really love Joe Wilson's Mates by Henry Lawson. It's a collection of short stories about Australian settlers in the bush at the turn of the 20th century. Funny ones, sad ones. Check out The Union Buries It's Dead.
Jeremiah Jackson
The Day Lasts More than A Hundred Years
by Aitmatov
Duishen,
same author
Dylan Peterson
moby dick was incredibly comfy
Benjamin Allen
Invisible Cities is easily the comfiest book of all time, seems like it’d fit what you’re looking for perfectly, especially with an interest in aesthetics over plot
James Cook
Sea of Fertility Tetralogy
Gavin Jenkins
>tfw you will never be a bandit god in Song dynasty China
Logan Myers
Bridge of Birds, forget the author's name. First in a trilogy of novels set in fantasy ancient China.
Brandon Phillips
the sheltering sky