Bear Parade (3 books in series)
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English
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review 1: "i feel that my poetry is fucking stupid"That's because it is, Tao.But that's why I like it. It feels like he's snickering at you, making a living writing poems about hamsters and peanut butter and bears.Oh, and the modern life and the iphone generation, ya, sure."the moose and i...
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English
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review 1: Finally got around to reading something of Tao Lin's. This was good, I liked it. He seems to inspire either devotion or hate, but I was somewhere in between those two things. The tone of all these stories is very similar--some are more realistic, some are more absurd/fantastical,...
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English
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review 1: I don't know why this style of writing works for me. At the beginning, it doesn't. For 20-30 pages I was annoyed by the simplicity, by the repetition, by the fact that the narrator is a depressed, drunk hipster. And then at some point the rhythm of the language takes over. It...