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Anonymous Sat Sep 16 08:56:41 2017 No.10030932 [Reply] [Original]

Has anyone here read this? Thoughts?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 08:58:42 2017 No.10030936 No. What's it about? The relationship between the title and author is admittedly a bit clever. I've been to Taipei for three days, and I wonder what sort of bullshit this book has to say about Taipei (if it's not employing it metaphorically).

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 09:08:46 2017 No.10030961 Yes. A fairly banal summation of post-modern boredom.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 09:34:21 2017 No.10031027 >>10030932 Read bed. It was shit. Edgy teenage garbage.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 09:41:35 2017 No.10031043 >>10030932 not as good as richard yates his style changed drastically

Anonymous Sat Sep 16 12:59:19 2017 No.10031634

>>10030932
Op here. Personally I really liked it, although I can see why some people would consider it too "nothing matters xD" edgelord-y and pretentious. I thought it was a pretty accurate take on life in the postmodern world. Anyone have a recommendation for a similar book?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 21:54:08 2017 No.10033227 >>10030932 My thoughts are go to bed Tao

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 22:06:18 2017 No.10033259 I think it'll age well. People came in with baggage when it first came out. The dealbreakers actually felt like risks pulled off, on second reading.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 22:28:48 2017 No.10033318 >>10033227 Kek

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 16 23:42:01 2017 No.10033519 File: 112 KB, 250x380, 8man thinks this party is weak.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw couldn't get through the first few pages Has some of the dullest prose I've ever encountered. Are all of his works written like this one?

Anonymous Sun Sep 17 00:29:37 2017 No.10033635
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>>10030932
not necessarily a great work, but a huge leap forward for tao as a writer (compared to his awkward whale poems and silly drawings of animals). he's someone i sincerely look forward to reading more of in the future. he seems to have left irony behind him and is staggering into uncharted territory. he's utterly surpassed his nyc hipster cronies and become something dangerous, weird, and interesting.

at the very least it succeeds as a snapshot of a moment in time at a particular place in a particular subset of society

>>10030936
taipei is actually a central plot point in the novel, so its not just a cool name

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