Audiobook Review
The Third Realm (2024)
by Karl Ove Knausgaard
We are now three books into Karl Ove Knausgaard's "The Morning Star" series, which combines his trademark close examination of the minutiae of everyday life and everyday thoughts with some kind of a supernatural thriller plot that revolves around a mysterious "new star" which appears in the sky over contemporary Norway and somehow stops all deaths. Three books in and the general public is still unaware of the phenomenon. To slow things down even further, Knausgaard uses the third volume to introduce an almost entirely new cast of characters, including a naive Norwegian teen and her nefarious black-metal boyfriend. In fact, it is Norwegian black metal that takes an astonishing front-of-house position in this volume, as a Norwegian detective seeks to solve the gruesomely mysterious slaying of three members of a lesser Norwegian black metal band at the hands of forces unknown.
There is also a neurologist who is called in to investigate brain activity in people who were thought to be brain dead, Tove a manic-depressive housewife and painter and Gaute, a teacher and husband to previously described character Katrina (a clergywoman with the church of Norway.) Still no idea how long this series will continue- could be endless?
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