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1907054 No.1907054 [Reply] [Original]

>mfw Tao Lin is a real person, and not a /lit/ meme to make fun of pretentious, shallow, self-absorbed gen x/gen y essayists and authors.

He's a living parody of everything wrong with American literature today.

>> No.1907073

>living parody

This implies that Tao Lin is capable of irony. He is not. That is mostly what is so cringingly godawful about his existence. He has no talent.

>> No.1907076

Yeah he's a real person I added him on his private account on facebook, He actually replied to my posts.

>> No.1907079

>>1907073
No, he doesn't make the jokes, he IS the joke.

>> No.1907084

The entire point of him is to make people say this sort of shit. Frankly I'm surprised /lit/ gets so suckered into it. He's simultaneously ironic and sincere, and if you can't read his shit with a blend of both you won't enjoy it. It's grinding, sure. I don't like it. But still.

>> No.1907095

>>1907076
Oh yeah? Well, I have a WATS line to Pynchon's apartment. I sometimes get baked and call at 3am, and when Mel answers, I just say "Tell Doc Sportello it's Bigfoot calling for him".

>> No.1907128

Since I first read the name five minutes ago I don't see the problem (yet), I like his piece on Dumbledore: http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/tag/drug-related-photoshop-art/

Granted, I would put that in a category with good bloggers / webocomics more than "literature", but looking at people like Cory Doctorow I would say there is a definite trend of twitterization in mainstream literature to be expected in the next 5 years anyway.

>> No.1907132

>>1907128
If Cory Doctorow and bloggers are the future of literature, then I quit books.

>> No.1907136

>>1907128
>Open link
>See American Apparel ad

NOPE!

>> No.1907138

>>1907054
Yeah yeah, take a shot at the state of American literature. Not like the UK or France has put anything out worth reading in the last 60 years.

>> No.1907142

>>1907138
Post-war literature sucks in general.

>> No.1907172

>>1907142
Bull, America had a lot of fine authors post war II, it's just the last ten years have been shit for us.

Pynchon, Vonnegut, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Updike, Carver, Cheever, Mailer, Roth, Gaddis, DeLillo, O'Connor, Morrison, McCarthy, Ellison, Salinger, Plath, Albee, Shepard, Vidal, Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Wilson...

We have had plenty of good ones, . They are just dead now, or too old to be worth a damn.. and no one worth a damn to take the torch.

>> No.1907182

Because you're so FUCKING STUPID, you have to dismiss anything that wasn't published in your GRANDPAW'S DAY. HOW SAD.

>> No.1907185

>>1907172
You forgot Chuck Palahniuk

>> No.1907199

Can someone explain what's so awful about him? I've never read any of his shit and don't intend to.

>> No.1907205

>>1907199
One can not accurately describe what it is that makes Tao's writing shit, it is what it is and it is shit.

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>>1907185
>Chuck Palahniuk

>> No.1907213

>>1907199
he's young and makes old people get mad

>> No.1907221

>>1907199
No one really cares about him outside of /lit/. He posteda couple of times here and linked a couple of threads on his twitter, and since then /lit/ responds (in a non-serious manner) to every Tao Lin related thread with posts stating that Tao himself started them, and some people pretend t be Tao Lin so other people pretend to believe that Tao Lin posted.

>> No.1907233

>>1907128
these are pretty good

come on guys they really are pretty good

anyways yeah tao lin, my cousin was apparently good friends with him through the gchat and also loves his books. i've never talked to him and think his books are okay at best. so i figure your enjoyment of tao lin is based on how many degrees of separation you have with him.

>> No.1907246

>>1907233

i have talked to him briefly via email. i think his work is excellent.

>> No.1907480

>>1907073
evidence?

>> No.1907482

tao lin is ironic ironically