A review by nini23
The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgård

Did not finish book.
All the characters seem so miserable in their lives, their marriages and with the tedium and toil of parenthood.  Wife Tove is clearly going through a manic episode, husband is drinking and driving. The next POV doesn't want to go home to her husband and kids. I recognize that this is literature and would likely reluctantly rate it 4 or 5 stars on literary merit but it’s a drag on my mood.  There's a discordant dissonant note to all the character interactions, like they are all afflicted with malaise, dissatisfaction and/or chronic dysthymia.
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