>I was nothing, a shout in the playground, a rock in scree, the hooting of a car horn.
>Could I do this to her? Could I have this effect on her?
>Could I have this affect on anyone?
>No.
>For Hanne, I was a nobody and would remain so.
>For me, she was everything.
God damn /lit/ you didn't tell me this would be so emotional.
>>8044701
something like that im an eco light bulb and she is the sun john green's idea?
>>8044730
Feels a bit more genuine and less beta than that when you read the book senpai
>>8044701
When is book 6 coming out? goddam I want it so much
My Twisted World was much better
>>8044744
I'm reading book 6 atm, you jelly senpai
>>8044768
I don't believe you
this is very popular at the moment lads, best to avoid it for atleast 5-10 years to see how the consensus is.
>>8044776
I liked it.
It was quite bland at times, at times it made me wonder how much coffé can a man make in a single novel, but I'd say it was a worthwile read
>>8044776
Top lel retard. Knausgård has been irrelevant since 2009.
>>8044773
Doubter
>>8044789
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.
>>8044789
Name one contemporary author better and more relevant.
>>8044803
Johua Cohen.
Yea yeah jew memes
But to be fair i love knausgaard so I'm not in for an argument
>>8044803
gene wolfe :3
awoo~
>>8044810
Contemporary, not modern, frienderoo
>>8044806
Uhh
>>8044701
>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
>>8044832
That's kind of hard to interpret
>>8044841
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.
>>8044883
Foreigners just won't understand
>>8044885
I'm italian and I enjoyed it. Stop thinking you're special
>>8044929
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.
These are by far the best covers btw
>>8044958
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
Is this the anon 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.
>>8045032
You can't talk about stuff like that and not link it.
>>8045026
kek
Should have piosted this with a picture of John Green, IMO
>>8045036
This is the most recent one.
https://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.
>>8044841
Yeah this
>>8044803
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
>>8044701
>>God damn /lit/ you didn't tell me this would be so emotional.
it is a book by a beta for betas
4chan really needs to start filtering the word "beta". Maybe filter the word "beta" to "alpha" and "alpha" to "beta"
>>8045060
My Green Struggle?
>>8045088
DUDE WEED
JOHN "THE MEME" GREEN
AN ABUNDANCE OF KNAUSGAARDS
>>8045088
Shit i laughed
>>8044701
>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.
>>8045259
Yeah you sound like the next melville
>>8045407
Kek
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?
>>8044859
He's saying Cohen is garbage.
>>8046796
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.
>>8044942
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.
>>8044861
did u actually read the john green novel to accurately make that comparison?
>>8047325
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 /lit/ personified (just a lot more handsome)
>>8050533
See overwhelming praise for him.
>>8050536
So because he gets a lot of praise and attention lit just has to be contrarians and hate? What a pity
>>8050556
No...
I see overwhelming praise for him on /lit/.
>>8050562
I am afraid those posts are all me
>>8045259
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
>>8044969
>le nostalgic photographe
nah
>>8044803
Kraszenhorkai
Vila-matas
Javier Marias
Anyone find his interviews perfectly in keeping with his writing style?
>>8054160
I think it's because he writes like he does interviews. He doesn't edit his books at all.
>>8044790
cut nails!
>>8045052
>>8045080
Yes Knausgaard considers Houellebecq a better author than himself.
http://www.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."
>>8045047
>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.
>>8050556
>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.
>>8046827
Ok. I won't cry. I hope.
>>8044814
You have no idea what contemporary means do you child?
>>8055211
Unfortunately i do, and woolf is not contemporary
