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My Struggle, Book Five
My Struggle, Book Five | Karl Ove Knausgaard
10 posts | 14 read | 2 reading | 6 to read
The fifth book of Knausgaard's powerful My Struggle series is written with tremendous force and sincerity. As a nineteen-year-old, Karl Ove moves to Bergen and invests all of himself in his writing. But his efforts get the opposite effect - he wants it so much that he gets writer's block. At the same time, he sees his friends, one-by-one, publish their debuts. He suspects that he will never get anything published. Book Five is also a book about strong new friendships and a shattering love affair. Then one day Karl Ove reaches two crucial points in his life: his father dies, and shortly thereafter, he completes his first novel.
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Taylor
My Struggle, Book Five | Karl Ove Knausgaard
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This is the best one yet....

To anyone even remotely interested in reading these, I definitely recommend they take the time to do it. While it‘s a big time investment, it‘s an easy read, not hard or challenging by any means, but I‘ve found it a profound experience—a total journey through what it means to be human in these modern times—and incredibly transformative. I can‘t wait to get into the next one.

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jveezer
My Struggle, Book Five | Karl Ove Knausgaard
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My Struggle is that every time I start a book in the series I realize how much I dislike the young Karl Ove. But then his beautiful writing sucks me in...

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Pat1287
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Pickpick

...same old karl ove with a glass of orange wine...love ❤️

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merelybookish
My Struggle, Book Five | Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Karl Ove kept me company while I audiopuzzled and completed this 2000 piece jigsaw. My Xmas vacation accomplishment. Just in time - we leave in the morning.

Tamra 🙌🏾Beautiful! 6y
TheWordJar Awesome job! 6y
KVanRead 👏 6y
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BarbaraBB Sounds like time well spent! 6y
kspenmoll Fantastic & beautiful puzzle! 6y
batsy Nice job! It's so pretty. 6y
Eggs Oh that is sweet 6y
LeahBergen Yay! 👏🏻👏🏻 6y
Cathythoughts Well done. It‘s a beauty 🎉 6y
mjdowens Nice job. 6y
Mdargusch I love this! We should do this @emilyhaldi - pick an audiobook and listen while we knit or do a puzzle. 6y
vivastory Very impressive! 6y
merelybookish @Cathythoughts Thanks! It was fun and now is back in the box. 6y
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merelybookish
My Struggle, Book Five | Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Squeezing in a bit of time this Xmas morn with my on again/off again boyfriend Karl Ove.😉

Cathythoughts He‘s really good. ✨ 6y
AmyG I am listening to Autumn. It‘s so simple and so beautiful. Love him, too. 6y
BarbaraBB Wouldn‘t mind some time with him either 😍 6y
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batsy The best kind of boyfriend 😁 6y
merelybookish @Cathythoughts I agree! I have enjoyed this series. 6y
merelybookish @AmyG Good to hear. It's on my TBR. 😊 6y
merelybookish @BarbaraBB I always feel a bit like I'm having an emotional affair when I read these books. 6y
merelybookish @batsy Exactly! 😎 6y
BarbaraBB Yes I feel like he trusts me with all that he has. He is so honest. I wouldn‘t want him as my boyfriend though. Too hard...! 6y
merelybookish @BarbaraBB I agree! Not now, but I can imagine at 20 being completely smitten! 6y
BarbaraBB @merelybookish Definitely! I might even fall for him now but now I am a bit wiser 😍😂 6y
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GuiltyFeat
Some Rain Must Fall: My Struggle | Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Still utterly mesmerizing. This penultimate volume is funny, disturbing and sad. We revisit his father's death and dredge up old infidelities. Karl Ove is as narcissistic as ever but he's also generous and reverent about art and literature and his friends who are artists. Weirdly, he finishes this volume by reading a couple of Ian Rankin books, so it's possible that his literary tastes aren't quite as refined as I imagined.

bookandcat I adore this series. I'm going to be reading book 4 soon. Book five paperback isn't released here til April! 7y
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Hobbinol
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#firsteverlitsypost was this quote: "Was art only an inner phenomenon? Something that moved within us and between us, all that which we couldn't see but marked us, indeed, which was us?" I posted this frozen view from my room at the historic Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC, where I'll return next February. #booktober

MrBook You're one of my favorites on here 😎👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👌🏻!!! Keep up the incredible posts, please ☺️. 7y
ValerieAndBooks Many years ago we stayed there -- it was fall and the foliage was gorgeous 🍁🍂🎃🍃 7y
Hobbinol Wow, thank you so much. I can't even begin to imagine Litsy without @MrBook . You're always so nice and give so much encouragement. And you always seem to be everywhere! Thank you for your omnipresence! 7y
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Hobbinol @ValerieAndBooks One of my favorite places to read is in a rocking chair in front of one of their HUGE fireplaces with the rocks inscribed with literary quotes! Autumn is a perfect time to visit. Thanks for commenting. 7y
Libby1 Fantastic photo. 7y
Hobbinol @Libby1 Many thanks!☺️ 7y
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Hobbinol
My Struggle, Book Five | Karl Ove Knausgaard
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"Was art only an inner phenomenon? Something that moved within us and between us, all that which we couldn't see but marked us, indeed, which was us?"

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Rhondareads
My Struggle, Book Five | Karl Ove Knausgaard

Addicted to this series.

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A.Shari.A
My Struggle, Book Five | Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Team Knausgaard. When I decided to read Book 1, I made a decision then to read them all. It has been a joy.

Jillreads I'm only on book 2 but I'm enjoying the ride! 8y
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