Is Knausgaard good? What would you compare him to?
I checked the archive but surprisingly didn't find anything.
Is Knausgaard good? What would you compare him to?
Carson Fisher
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Kevin Evans
Knausgaard is dope. (I only read first volume though). It seems like rambling but it's not, it has themes and stuff and is really well-composed.
Compare to Proust
Chase Perry
no he is not good, look he made zadie smith smoke :9
he always lookslike a little elf man, but he's like 6'4"
Nolan Gomez
kinda. he is so fucking angsty. i have a lot of angst but he's next level angsty. was anyone else able to stand his angst?
Robert Peterson
ute av verden is the real treat tho, a grittier lolita. too bad you monolingual plebs arent able to read it
Connor Green
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He seems nice.
I can't see a time where I would want to spend that much time reading about some guy though.
Oliver Walker
I read and liked his novel "a time for everything" but by the end I was tired of his style. He overuses anaphora and once I noticed it it became very annoying.
I could not imagine reading several volumes of my struggle and enjoying it all.
Still, a time for everything was an interesting book and besides the anaphora his style is very comfy.
7/10
Connor Parker
People say he's like a Norwegian proust, but I've read neither
Carson Morales
He is actually quite good though he has a tendency to drone at times. The compilations on his motivations and stories of his teenage years are what I found to be the best.
David Jones
Here's the archive site of choice
warosu.org
He's brought up often enough
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Benjamin Miller
volume 1 is good, volume 2 is great, volume 3 is lame, volume 4 is okay, volume 5 is slightly better than okay, and volume 6 has yet to be translated.
personally, i think Knausgaard is one of the few really interesting contemporary things going on literature these days. dude completely cannabalized his life to write a mundane epic.
he's angsty. i guess i'm angsty too, though. idk. identified a lot. surprised that more of lit's population doesn't considering so many of us are white males trying to write and/or get laid, which is what so much of the books are about
weird, maybe we jut have really different taste but i thought a time for everything was a waste of space. the first few pages were really interesting, then the cain and able stuff was alright, but once it got to the love story and then the flood, it was pointless. why describe people fleeing from a flood for 50 pages or however long it was? and it wasn't even good updike-ean description, it was just summarization. i wish i had my copy w/ me to prove this but that's my memory of it at least. conflict free, uninteresting narration...
anyway. i'll say one last thing about struggle. it takes immersion to another level. that's why the people that like it like it. it's like harry potter for adults. it manages to capture the nostalgia we all have for our childhood and youth by reliving it second by second through writing.
Oliver Bell
Did he know about the whole black metal thing going on in the erly nineties?
Leo Morris
reader, i'd f--k him
Jacob Parker
was able to stand it becuase it was on the same level as me so it was nice to know someone else feels the same
Jaxson Miller
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Tyler King
First book by him i read. I had no idea what i got in to.
As A Norwegian that has lives in a small town like he describes in that book, he describes it really well. Like really really well. If anyone wants to visit a small Norwegian city and see what the everyday life is like in one of those then just read that book.
Adrian Roberts
Ive read some of his peripheral work, not bad, not bad at all.
He's got a dry sarcastic sense of cynical humor that I just eat up. Also he writes about being a lustful restless adolescent which are fun times to revisit.
Jacob Long
Random quote from book number 6
"I stood up and walked to the bathroom to take a pee. My piss was light in color. Almost completely blank. I thought about my dad's pee that i have seen a few times when he for some reason forgot to flush the toilet after him self in the morning. Dark yellow, almost brown it had been. How scary wasn't that? I had associated the color with his anger, and masculinity. My own light, almost white piss was feminine, his dark was masculine. His rage was masculine. My fear feminine."
Its pretty funny. This was after he almost fell completely for some shady sellers trying to sell him some vacation home. And he felt bad about him self for not pleasing them by buying their shit.
These books are really funny
Austin Bailey
>he's angsty. i guess i'm angsty too, though. idk. identified a lot. surprised that more of lit's population doesn't considering so many of us are white males trying to write and/or get laid, which is what so much of the books are about
Reading Knausgaard there is so many times i thought "omg Veeky Forums would love this". "he is Veeky Forums incarnate". Timid, nervous, trying to fit in, trying to be liked, trying to be an author.
And all the passages that he writes about other authors and books are pretty great and something that those interested in literature would enjoy. Often about what makes the writing good.
Thomas Bennett
>there is a picture of him and madame zubumba in the same room
yeah i aint' reading this guy
Xavier Torres
fucking hell, this kills me every time. he spends a good amount of time describing cleaning in book 2 as well. probably because it's the epitome of mundane, senseless work.
Bentley Garcia
It was impossible for him to not have noticed it.
Wyatt Jones
It's very comfy, the comparison with proust is bullshit though.
And book 2 is incredibly dragged out, it'll make you wonder how many times can a character make coffe in the same book. And the answer will be many, many times.