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My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård
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it was amazing

“The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself. �
� Maurice Merleau-Ponty

(This quote will have to serve as a review for now. I'll probably write more later. If you want a thorough write-up of the book, go read Lee's fantastic review.)
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Reading Progress

July 3, 2016 – Started Reading
July 3, 2016 – Shelved
July 4, 2016 –
page 52
8.31% "Nice languid pace so far, pretty perfect for how I'm spending my 4th - getting two newly adopted cats acclimated to my house. Greatly enjoying being back with KOK..."
July 8, 2016 –
page 182
29.07% "Wherein Karl Ove reads the same Cortazar stories I just read. Cool."
July 12, 2016 –
page 227
36.26% "Wherein Karl Ove masturbates to Bartholomeus Spranger."
July 12, 2016 –
page 252
40.26% "Wherein Karl Ove reads The Magic Mountain and Doctor Faustus and is impressed by and recalls the same things in them I was impressed by and recall. Fuck you, Knausgaard, I'm a unique intellect!"
July 18, 2016 –
page 433
69.17% "Wherein Karl Ove parties with Bjork, and then vomits."
July 18, 2016 –
page 433
69.17% "Wherein Karl Ove goes to the exact same places in Iceland I went this year. WTF Knausgaard."
July 19, 2016 –
page 461
73.64% ""'I did my first-year assignment on Joyce. So I'm interested in that tradition.'
'I'm more of a Beckett man myself.'
'You like the secretary better than the master?'""
July 20, 2016 –
page 516
82.43% "Wherein Karl Ove talks about the early days of being in love very charmingly, wistfully."
July 22, 2016 – Finished Reading

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Jonfaith Picked up the first volume from the library, as we ease into birthday season, projects like this become topical. I will vow to swallow my own vomit.


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Fionnuala enjoyed the updates :-)


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