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A review by jthinojosa
My Struggle, Book 2: A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgård
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
“the life around me was not meaningful. I always longed to be away from it, and always had done. So the life I led was not my own. I tried to make it mine, this was my struggle, because of course I wanted it, but I failed, the longing for something else undermined all my efforts.”
"When I was twenty what I had, what made me me, was so little. I didn't know that, of course, because that was all there was at that time. But now that I'm thirty-five there's more. Well, everything that existed in me when I was twenty is still there. But now it's surrounded by so much more. That's sort of how I think about it.”
It will never cease to amaze me how well KOK captures the stream of consciousness that I used to think was unique to just me in my own experiences while moving through life. Are we all not experiencing the same lives then?
This book gives me hope that life is still, and always will be, an adventure despite the small, insignificant happenings that flood the extraordinary.
"When I was twenty what I had, what made me me, was so little. I didn't know that, of course, because that was all there was at that time. But now that I'm thirty-five there's more. Well, everything that existed in me when I was twenty is still there. But now it's surrounded by so much more. That's sort of how I think about it.”
It will never cease to amaze me how well KOK captures the stream of consciousness that I used to think was unique to just me in my own experiences while moving through life. Are we all not experiencing the same lives then?
This book gives me hope that life is still, and always will be, an adventure despite the small, insignificant happenings that flood the extraordinary.