Have you been putting off reading all five published volumes of Karl Ove Knausgaard‘s titanic and oddly controversial My Struggle series?

Not to worry, because now you don’t have to! An enterprising Instagrammer/Lego-artist has (presumably) read them for you and perfectly converted the novels into tastefully filtered digital photographs.

Each one of those books is, like, several hundred pages long. So, that’s a lot of romantic anxiety and adolescent/young-adult/middle-aged angst to distill into pictures, but as far as I can tell, it’s all there: salted fish, shower-sex, alcohol-induced existential despair, the whole shebang! No reading required.

The only thing that does not age in the face is the eyes. They are no less bright the day we die as the day we are born.

A photo posted by bec (@legokarlove) on Mar 15, 2016 at 10:38am PDT

I could not imagine anything more embarrassing than sending food back to the kitchen. #pontoonrestaurant #florø #legokarlove #mystrugglebooktwo #mystrugglebook2 #amaninlove #emasculation #humiliation #knausgaard #knausgård #backtostockholm A photo posted by bec (@legokarlove) on Mar 14, 2016 at 6:32pm PDT

When we stood under the shower, holding each other, there were new contractions #lindaispregnant #legokarlove #legolit #karloveknausgaard #karloveknausgård #knausgård #knausgaard #mystrugglebooktwo #mylegostruggle #minkamp #legominkamp #nakedlego #stillfamilyfriendly

A photo posted by bec (@legokarlove) on Mar 20, 2016 at 3:59pm PDT