A review by vkadic
My Struggle: Book 4 by Karl Ove Knausgård

reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

I think out of the four books I read so far this is the weakest for me. It is the most focused one with very little jumping around time periods and just describing the author's teenage years, mostly the one year he was a teacher at 18. I really like the way the author writes, how honest he is in describing himself, his thoughts, experiences, relationships with others. And also he does a very good job in actually putting you in the head of a teenager although he is writing this as an adult. I think we had lead pretty different lives, and had a lot of different teenager experiences but still he manages to remind me of that feeling of being a teenager, the way you think about yourself, the importance you put on other people's perception of you, the things you find important... All in all it was an okayish book, not my favourite, the ending I cannot even describe, I was very surprised anyone would choose to end a book like that.