I was nothing, a shout in the playground, a rock in scree, the hooting of a car horn

Doubter

Yes and he's had 6 books out, all in rapid succession...odd I think.

I'm just trying to be friendly, it's your time not mine.

Name one contemporary author better and more relevant.

Johua Cohen.
Yea yeah jew memes
But to be fair i love knausgaard so I'm not in for an argument

gene wolfe :3

awoo~

Contemporary, not modern, frienderoo

Uhh

>if ppl were rain she was hurricane and i am drizzle
i don't get the praise for this hack. his essays are interesting but his fiction is john green-tier

That's kind of hard to interpret

It doesn't feel as cringey as when Green rights it for it start it doesn't go on and on using the shitty metaphors he does. And by taking time through the novel to give you a chance to get accustomed to the characters. All in all it feels more earned than in a Green novel

>start reading book 1
>it's about some autistic Norwegian kid

I didn't find it very captivating.

Foreigners just won't understand

Also not autistic, perfectly normal Norwegian guy, almost a borderline Chad.

I'm italian and I enjoyed it. Stop thinking you're special

Maybe some of you that live in the mountains.

The fact is that we're a race of people made to live on a mountain farm deep within a fjord and not interact with more than ~50 people in our entire lifetimes, the kind of autism that produces is just not palpable to anglos and most other europeans.

When I read it i thought his awkwardness was something that the fellows at Veeky Forums would relate and appreciate.

I don't even want to read number 6 because then i'll be done with it and have nothing else to read.

You just went full /pol/, never go full /pol/

These are by far the best covers btw

It's not /pol/, it's true. Literally all of my grandparents were exactly this, my parents are the first generation in their families to not live as farmers or fishermen.

American and these books are great

I'm from the UK and im enjoying it, I also didn't think he was that autistic, sure he said/ did some weird stuff but didn't everyone as a kid?

Is this the user who boasted about his six part memoir? Glad to see he's doing well.

Anybody else here reading the ongoing story over on /r9k/ about the guy who is dating an escort?

It's pretty emotional stuff, although he's autistic as shit.

You can't talk about stuff like that and not link it.

kek

Should have piosted this with a picture of John Green, IMO

This is the most recent one.

desustorage.org/r9k/thread/28588279/

Unfortunately I wasn't there for the first threads (someone posted the links in that thread ^^^) but it seems a lot of people are following the story.

It made me feel, at least.

Yeah this

Houellebecq easily. Even Knausgaard would agree

>“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was long-winded and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly Norwegian and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were means of furthering my literary career, I was a car horn and she was everything.”

Brings a tear to my eye

>>God damn Veeky Forums you didn't tell me this would be so emotional.
it is a book by a beta for betas

Canadian and I ploughed through the first two volumes very quickly

Nah. I like Houellebecq but Knausgaard is a much better writer. Houellebecq is clever and self-aware but doesn't come close. Knausgaard has a real talent.

Veeky Forums really needs to start filtering the word "beta". Maybe filter the word "beta" to "alpha" and "alpha" to "beta"

My Green Struggle?

DUDE WEED

JOHN "THE MEME" GREEN

AN ABUNDANCE OF KNAUSGAARDS

Shit i laughed

>narcissistic modern age career novelist writes thousands of pages about no gf feels and his dad dying
>publishing and literary establishment loves it

This is why I'm super excited about the rise of self publishing. Publishing houses wouldn't know a good novel if it crawled in through their bedroom window at night and raped them.

Yeah you sound like the next melville

Kek

Bump

Serious question. What is so special about these books? I would be open to reading it, but I fail to see how an autobiography of this guy has any significance. Is it just entertainment?

He's saying Cohen is garbage.

It's basically a bildungsroman about the modern scandinavian man. Voice of a generation, captured the zeitgeist pretty well.

Bonus if your dad was a dick to you, my dad was alot like Karl Ove's dad and that helped me relate to him.

So that would explain why Thomas Glahn was so autistic

I want to run my hands through his long, grey hair in a purely platonic way.

did u actually read the john green novel to accurately make that comparison?

Read the book and saw the film with the gf and neither come close to Knausgaard it terms of making me feel, that could be due to the Knausgaard simply writing about his early life in as much detail as possible, or it could be due to the horrific forced empathy that Greene gives you, one is like being talked to and the other has a gun to your head

How come so many on lit hate him? He is Veeky Forums personified (just a lot more handsome)

See overwhelming praise for him.

So because he gets a lot of praise and attention lit just has to be contrarians and hate? What a pity

No...
I see overwhelming praise for him on Veeky Forums.

I am afraid those posts are all me

Everyone i've talked to have claimed that i need to read the last book, where he apparently discusses his own egoism, to fully understand the work.

God 17.mai boys.
Hilsen en nordmann

>le nostalgic photographe

nah

Kraszenhorkai
Vila-matas
Javier Marias

Anyone find his interviews perfectly in keeping with his writing style?

I think it's because he writes like he does interviews. He doesn't edit his books at all.

cut nails!

Yes Knausgaard considers Houellebecq a better author than himself.

nytimes.com/2015/11/08/books/review/michel-houellebecqs-submission.html?_r=0

"The resistance to starting a book by Houellebecq is too great. I'm not entirely sure where it comes from, though i do have a suspicion, because the same thing goes for the films of Lars von Trier: when "Antichrist" came out I couldn't bring myself to see it, neither in the cinema nor at home on the DVD I eventually bought, which remains in its box unwatched. They're simply too good. What prevents me from reading Houellebecq and watching von Trier is a kind of envy - not that i begrudge them success, but by reading the books and watching the films i would be reminded of how excellent a work of art can be, and of how far beneath that level my own work is."

>She lifts a brow and presses her lips together and looks out the window
>She's laying with her head at an almost (but not quite) 90 degree angle with the pillow on my right side
>My left arm brushes against her back as she sat up and faced my shoulder and touched my ear
>She stands with her feet together and her head tilted to the side as she looks at me and I look at her
>times fucking infinity

Holy shit this is unreadable.

>So because he gets a lot of praise and attention lit just has to be contrarians and hate? What a pity
This a bit, for me at least. When I read them I felt an immense connection to the man and read all six of them in a bit over a month. Then over the last year as his public persona has become bigger and bigger it's not as enjoyable.
You read the books and imagine this mumbling man and then in pictures you see someone stylish and in control - the illusion breaks.

Ok. I won't cry. I hope.

You have no idea what contemporary means do you child?

Unfortunately i do, and woolf is not contemporary