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Robar En American Apparel (2012)

by Tao Lin(Favorite Author)

3.18 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Alpha Decay

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 descriptive fiction, but is done with far less skill. I don't know if I liked it. I wish I hadn't read the blurb on the jacket first, proclaiming it sort of cultish:| Anyway, it just kept me turning to find out how to categorize the experience I was having. Ultimately, it was vague and indescribable, but it postulates I guess that that is what life sometimes is.
review 2: It's books like this where I wish I could give something 0 stars. It doesn't deserve any of it. I don't know about th... moree rest of the world, but I like emotion in my characters. I like plot, even if it's just a little. I got NONE of that from this. I grew to hate all of the characters, and it came to the point I didn't even care what they were doing, and I didn't feel any sympathy towards the main character whatsoever.Because of the way Lin writes this book (with no emotion whatsoever), I begin to feel tired of it, and un-invested in it. If felt like a chore to read this book. (Not to even mention the movie, I couldn't even finish the trailer. Just, ew.)Of all the reviews I've read of this book, all the people who gave me positive feedback about this book, even recommended it to me, were the pretentious type to go to art museums and say things like "Well I'm enjoying this piece far more than anybody else in this room." They type that you go to art museums and want to punch in the face.There's better things to read out there. But if you want to get really angry, and feel really empty inside, then this is the book for you. Go for it. less

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