Geoff’s Reviews > My Struggle: Book Five > Status Update

Wherein Karl Ove talks about the early days of being in love very charmingly, wistfully.

"'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?'"

Wherein Karl Ove goes to the exact same places in Iceland I went this year. WTF Knausgaard.

Wherein Karl Ove parties with Bjork, and then vomits.

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!

Wherein Karl Ove masturbates to Bartholomeus Spranger.

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...