Karellen’s Reviews > A Death in the Family > Status Update

Don’t get me wrong- it’s not all bad. But why does one have to endure so much trivial crap to experience the clarity of the interesting passages? It’s almost schizophrenic. Maybe the author was pissed when he wrote the best parts? It’s a strange conundrum for me.

The title is My Struggle. But actually the struggle is that of the reader wading through pages of dross to find the interesting bits. Anyone that enjoys this kind of thing is a fucking masochist!

I seem to have been reading this for what seems like eternity but there are still 150 pages left. It’s like Proust for the 21st century. Ridiculous amounts of unnecessary detail. But having somehow got this far I’m determined to finish the beast. Just so bored of it though.

If there’s one thing I hate it’s when books are translated into American I stead of English and you get stupidly incorrect language- I mean what the hell is “impetuousness”? Should be impetuosity. Irritating. Never mind, I suppose we’ll all be American before long. Hopefully I’ll be dead before that happens. Ugh.

Well I have to say that some people tried to put me off reading this guy which is why I only just got around to it. In fact I downloaded it very cheaply just to see what I felt. Now I’m already hooked. And the problem is this is the 1st of 6 books in the saga entitled My Struggle. I suppose I knew this would happen, given my relationship with Nordic writers.