Books by Tao Lin
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review 1: I just finished, and was thoroughly engaged by this book. Tao Lin has definitely captured a perspective of modern America's youth, it's aimless ramblings and strange obsessions. Although much of it is general, particularly the repetitive syntax with some breaks into more origina...
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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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review 1: He's got a style, that's for sure. Robotic, literal, dull. But there's something about this style, and this book, that grew on me as I read it. It's the way he describes, in such strangely compelling detail, in almost technical terms, the inner life of a bored, spoiled 20-somethi...
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review 1: i didn't realize what i was getting in to. tao lin is like mr. nice guy in exit through the gift shop or whatever, the banksy documentary. he is zero talent, all gimmicks. there is something to be said about his zombie voice and what his writing reflects about society, a particul...
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review 1: Found this odd book at a thrift store. Selected it because its title was intriguing and it was $.61. I give this a 4-star rating for originality. I have never read anything quite like this stream-of-consciousness novella. In some ways it resembles Nicholson Baker's blow-by-blow d...
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review 1: I liked this novel(la) well enough. I don't understand those who love its barbiturate affect so much that they find it's worth raving about. It's very much a then-this-happened then-that-happened kind of story. About an Asian-American hipster-writer named Sam unsurprisingly like ...
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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...