[@ONL]I've read [i]Sult[/i]. Most people who dislike it think it was somewhat repetitive plot-wise, even though it's a really short book. You know, he is hungry, he suffers, he somehow gets saved in the last moment by a friend who suddenly appears or an article he manages to write (or sheer luck), and then back to suffering once his money is gone: repeat this several times and that's the book. If you disregard the plot and read it for how it describes the pains of an utterly broken man who slowly dwindles away to a mere sack of bones as excessive, stubborn, and self-destructive pride, moral dilemmas, and hunger -- that is hunger in every sense of the word: romantic, spiritual, cultural, sexual, and literal hunger -- eat him away (pun intended), it's suddenly a great novel.

And yes, Ibsen is a great playwright. Basically unavoidable if you are into theater.