Hey lit, did you like Karl Ove Knausgård?

>>8061813

Very much. His conversations with Geir are top-tier.

he was great as Aragon in Lord of the Rings

>>8061813
looks cute, would pet

>>8061813
I did.

liked him best before he was cloned against his will and set on a path to global ideological redemption

best author alive

Authors aren't supposed to look like Calvin Klein models. I am suspicious of any talent because of this.

>>8061813
Norwegian here, and I got a bit bored about 100 pages into the first book, maybe I need to commit to it, I have the two first sitting around anyways.

How are the translated ones? It seems he's getting his second revival in the US at the moment

>>8061813

Can't even bring myself to open one of his novels.

>>8062265
this guy looks like a grandpa except for the nice hair. get some standards not that ck has any anymore

>>8062269
Sikkert fordi det det handler om et dagligdags liv i Norge, noe som vi allerede er "vant" til. Syntes boka ble bedre etterhvert ihvertfall

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>>8061813
The dude admits to shamelessly throwing cigarette butts out of the car window, he's barbaric.

He's coming out with a new novel which is gonna be called "In the Spring" or something similar. It's about a dad and his 3 month old daughter and is centered around the light and the dark of life's beginning.

>>8062355
you sure its a new novel? he's writing a bunch of books about the seasons now where he sort of explains stuff for his kids, a bit like an encyclopedia

>>8062313
You're just a bitter sour grapes virgin

>>8062459
Fuck. This is the second time I've seen you post this same exact insult when it doesn't fit the context.

>>8062269
Blir bedre mot slutten når faren til Kalle Klaus dauer og han må vaske huset til farmora med Jif. Bok 2 er ifolge mange den beste i serien, veldig utleverende. Fucka nesten opp ekteskapet. Bok 3 var veldig relaterbar for min egen del som sorlending. Hiv deg rundt og les dem, kis.

>>8062450

Norwegian media is just breaking the news today. He said he was done writing novels earlier, but went back on his word and his new book will be a novel apparently.

>>8062355
>>8062330

Fan, hvor mange nordmenn det er her da.

>>8061813

he kinda looks like william h macy

>>8061813
Terrible, terrible forced attention whore meme sold to soccer moms and 50-something milquetoast MFA grads who take all of their book recs from the New York Times.

>>8063316
Seriously? What a faggot.

>>8063316
oh, thats great news

>>8063316
He's a real cheeky lad

>>8062313
goddamn you must have had a sexy grandpa

>>8062333
Not so barbaric when in another passage he talks about weather he should toss the cigarette butts on the ground or not because there are people around to see it. But then he proceeds to do it because they where just fishers after all.

>>8063499
FISHERLIVESMATTER

>>8063551
Not really desu

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>>8063572
WE WUZ KANGS

>>8061813
What I keep hearing is that he has great prose and he can make the mundane interesting. I read excerpts and it seems to be true, but I dont think I can stick with that for 4 thick volumes of his biography. If he ver writes fiction or essays, like his Houllebech review I'll check that out, but Mine Kekmph is a no go for me.

>>8063707
but he has written fiction and essays

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>>8062450
Sounds like what Ethan Hawks is doing.

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Finished book2 at a time of real intransigence now I feel its time to delve again

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Only about 200 pages into My Struggle but yes, very much so.

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In which of the books does he write about his experiences in high school? I imagine I'd find his books boring but I attended the same high school and there was a small shitstorm at the time about the things he wrote, so I'm curious.

It feels really weird to have someone in such "proximity" - not that I know the guy - ascend to worldwide fame.

>>8062269
>>8062330
>>8063316
>>8063268
Hei alle sammen

>>8063707

Check out Sjelens Amerika/America of the Soul. It's an essay collection with a recurring ttheme about art. The Idiots of Cosmos (not sure that's the correct translated title ) is especially great.

It's of general interest to people who are into literature - there's a great essay on Knut Hamsun too. Plus, a few of his points from My Struggle are distilled into essays, in particular his thoughts on Hitler and the rise of Nazism and the reasons he write.

>>8065536
The first one, I suppose. I started it yesterday and he's talking about his adolescence, so high school is probably going to be touched next.

>2014
>Oh lit, what you think of KOK ?
>Fuck off , thinks he's Proust, babby's first realism

>2016
>wow, so good, cant put it down

Literally the most bandwagon board of them all.

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>>8065577
>my opinion is the board's opinion
>I care enough about a zoroastrian cuneiform forum to project my opinions onto it

>>8066952
>zoroastrian cuneiform forum
There is a point when this goes too far and we might be its general vicinity.

>>8066984
Not even close.