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What other works should I read before I can properly appreciate Tao Lins' work?

inb4 go to bed Tao

>> No.3188014

All of Dr. Seuss works.

>> No.3188021

Nothing. His works exclusively address the vacuity of contemporary culture, so a lack of cultural context is probably ideal.

>> No.3188024

Maybe browse the internet a lot and have the tv on in the background and go to a mall.

>> No.3188023

Some psychoanalysis to understand how infantile and unhealthy his behaviour is.

>> No.3188062

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2BJSV8Q1Yw

no

>> No.3188067

Read it out loud in a monotone voice with your eyes half shut

>> No.3188085

What a coincidence, I just downloaded eee(xwhatever)

>> No.3188095

>>3188085
WOAH WOOOOOOOOOOOOOAH I DID THAT JUST TODAY TOO I BOUGHT THE EEEEE EEE EEEE BOOK AND READ IT A LITTLE BIT ON THE TRAIN AND THEN I CAME ONTO THE COMPUTER MACHINE AT HOME AND I SAW A WRITING ON TAO LON AND YOU ARE READING THE SAME BOOK THAT AM I READING BY TAO LON

WOAH

>> No.3188109

>>3188095

thanks anon made my day

>> No.3188113

>>3188095
>>3188109

Stop with the samefags, Tao.

Dis aint funny no mo'

>> No.3188130

>>3188113

>>3188095 can't be Tao. He and capitalized letters (written and verbal) are mutually exclusive (and how)

>> No.3189805

>>3188014
>>3188021
>>3188023
>>3188024

thanks guys, now to get his complete works

>> No.3189824
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3189824

Can't slay hard enough.

>> No.3189830
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3189830

His influences are Bret Easton Ellis (I know, jesus), Richard Yates, Lydia Davis and DFW. Check them out I guess.
Also, Check out The Human War by Noah Cicero to get an understanding of early alt-lit. Cicero is an influence on Tao's work, even if Tao is better known.

If you are doing BEE, just read Rules of Attraction, frick everything else.

If you're going to read Tao

SFAA or EEEE EEE EEEEE (then the other)... and maybe Bed.
Skip his poetry and stay the fuck away from RY the book, not the author.

>avey tare and a cat, because why the fuck not/

>> No.3189839

Read Coupland's Generation X and BEE's The Rules of Attraction. Both of them are pretty much about the meaninglessness of youth and that should lead into Lin.

Watch some mumblecore movies too starting with Linklater's Slacker and moving your way up.

>> No.3189849

>>3189839

Actually the characters in Gen X aren't that young but I think it still works. If anything they probably reflect Lin's apparently persona right now. Late 20's meandering.

>> No.3189855

Lit, any chance I can get a straight honest answer on whether you actually like Tao Lin? Opinions seems pretty divided, and given the nature of his work, it seems the absolute best way to benefit from it is not to read it (I'm being serious here). I'm sure his prose may be different, but I can't help but feel his poetry is deliberately nebulous for no reason I can discern. It's certainly interesting to read, and incredibly different from the "standard", but I'm not sure I'd ever want to see it become a popular style; of course, it probably never will.

>> No.3189868

This is spam.

>> No.3189874
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3189874

Hey Tao, send me a cyber autograph will yeah?

>> No.3189883

>>3189855
i like tao lin as a person in that i think he is neat and his more recent short stories & books are good, not really that interested in his poetry either though

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3189888

>>3189874
So who're /lit/s fave alt-lit authors?

You lists better include Noah Cicero, Jordan Castro and Scott McClanahan.

>> No.3189969

>>3189830
thanks man

>> No.3189987

>>3189888
But those guys aren't Tao
they're insufferable hipster faggots

>> No.3190002

>>3189855
Don't care for his poetry but I like his prose. I like the sort of bleak moroseness of it. I'd dare to call Tao a Schopenhauerian in a lot of ways.

>> No.3190001

>>3189888
any dl links?

>> No.3190008

>>3188095
>computer machine

I lol'd.

>> No.3190027

>>3190001
No. I buy their books like you're supposed to. God damn thieves never supporting the little man.

>>3189987
Noah Cicero is anything but an insufferable hipster. He's a working class white male who happens to write. Same with SCott McClanahan.


...okay, Jordan Castro is, but he's came into his own now, you know, since he stopped ripping of Tao Lin.

I bet you are Tao and are pissed because Jordan diddled your ex.

>> No.3190039

>>3189987

I suppose you think that Kenneth Goldsmith is a hipster because he's got a moustache?

I actually think that you think that because I think you're a fucking idiot

>> No.3190044

>>3190027
A lot of people have diddled Tao's ex

That's why she's Tao's ex

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>>3190044
I diddled Tao's ex. She was high on adderall.
Steve Roggenbuck was being a dick so I left him to annoy Sam Pink and started chatting to her.
Pretty sure Stephen.Dierks was in the room. I would recognise his faggot breathing anywhere.

Pic related. It was the bed we diddled on covered in pleb lit.