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Where do I start with Tao Lin? Seriously.

I don't care if you think he's utter shit, I'll decide for myself.

>> No.3332439

Somewhere else.

>> No.3332446

If you are so into making your opinions why are you asking for ours? Just pick one and read it.

>> No.3332450

>>3332446

I'd like to decide if he's shit or not on my own. But I don't mind asking which book best captures his essence as a writer.

>> No.3332452

Richard Yates is his best work.

>> No.3332454

What makes you want to read Tao Lin? Really, though. I've never heard much praise so I never bothered.

>> No.3332456

eeee eee eeee or his poetry

Richard Yates is ok, I just didn't like it.

>> No.3332458
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3332458

>>3332450
If you'd like to decide whether he's shit or not without our help, then you can certainly decide which book to read without us telling you where to begin.

Use that big, beautiful brain, girlfriend.

>> No.3332464

>>3332458

I could, but I don't want to.

>>3332454

Mainly because /lit/ dismisses him so quickly and I have a strong feeling almost everyone that dismisses him has never read him, and is just dismissing it him cause it's the 'thing to do'.

>>3332452

Thanks

>> No.3332465

>>3332433
Well, his first novel Eeeee Eee Eeee is nice and so is his short story collection Bed. They were released at the same time and represent his more wordy style with metaphors and imagery and some sort of surrealism for a bit. Then you have his later minimal, matter of fact, concise prose as represented in Shoplifting for American Apparel and Richard Yates.

I'd start with Eeeee Eee Eeee or Shoplifting from American Apparel if I were you. The latter is a novella. I'd start there and if you find it too bare move on to Eeeee Eee Eeee.

>> No.3332469

>>3332464
>Mainly because /lit/ dismisses him so quickly and I have a strong feeling almost everyone that dismisses him has never read him, and is just dismissing it him cause it's the 'thing to do'.
That's why I read Shoplifting and before I knew it I read all his prose.

>> No.3332474

>>3332433

bearparade.com

read "the sky is blue etc etc"

also read nosferatu by cicero while you're there

>> No.3332477

Start with Richard Yates:

That night Haley Joel Osment was alone in the apartment talking to Julia on Gmail chat. Julia was 28 and married and lived in Georgia. She was friends with an editor of a magazine that had published Haley Joel Osment’s poetry. Haley Joel Osment’s cell phone vibrated. It was Dakota Fanning. Haley Joel Osment moved his cell phone to his ear. Dakota Fanning said her mother found out about him by reading a blog post’s comments section where he had said things about his first visit to New Jersey including when they screamed bad words across the Delaware River. “I think she knows you’ve stayed here overnight and that you’re 22,” said Dakota Fanning. “She already googled you a lot I think.”

“What’s going to happen?” said Haley Joel Osment.

“I don’t know. I can’t leave here. She won’t let me leave.”

“Is she calling the police?” said Haley Joel Osment.

“No, I don’t think she will. I have to go. She’s here.”

“I don’t know what to say,” said Haley Joel Osment on Gmail chat to Julia. He said Dakota Fanning’s mother found out about him. He said Dakota Fanning was banned from the internet. “Oh no,” said Julia.

>> No.3332480

>>3332474
Go to bed, Noah

>> No.3332484

>>3332474
Off-topic but did anyone ever read Noah Cicero's The Insurgents?

I thought it was wonderful.

>> No.3332500

>>3332433

AND THEN THEY ATE WHALE etc

>> No.3332503

>>3332458

So it's not just me who finds op ridiculous

>> No.3332510

>>3332433
why don't you ask Tao Lin? He's got nothing better to do.

>> No.3332507

>>3332500

the etc really doesn't do it justice. you should have typed out the other twenty thousand lines too.

>> No.3332508

>>3332484
Why aren't you in bed yet Noah?

>> No.3332512

>>3332507

>implying that was even one of the lines

>> No.3332518

>>3332508
Wow you are so funny.

>> No.3332545

Who is John Galt?

>> No.3332556

he gets lazy and starts sucking.

>> No.3332568

>>3332518
>confirmed for Noah

>> No.3332601

Shoplifting from American Apparel is the ultimate book on hipsterdom. Nothing further needs to be nor indeed can be said. That is all.

>> No.3332615

when i was five
i went fishing with my family
my dad caught a turtle
my mom caught a snapper
my brother caught a crab
i caught a whale

that night we ate crab
the next night we ate turtle
the next night we ate snapper
the next night we ate whale

>> No.3332619

>>3332615
So post-ironic.

>> No.3332622

>>3332484

i read an excerpt of it and it didn't really take me. nosferatu on bearparade was really enjoyable for me though. the way he writes is almost like greentext. he's talked about that before, about writing in single lines like that.

>> No.3332691

i'm reading nosferatu right now.
it's hilarious.

>> No.3332707

>>3332619

groans audibly

>> No.3332725

>>3332691
noah cicero is a much better writer than tao lin and he isnt as pretentious and no one ever talks about him, sighhh

>> No.3332733

>>3332725
Noah, you're infinitely more pretentious than Tao Lin

contrast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CppB_0-wDsA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2BJSV8Q1Yw

>> No.3332749

>>3332733
So this is what /lit/ has become. Empty arguments about which clod of shit stinks less.

>> No.3332755

>>3332749
Maybe you would enjoy reddit/books better

>> No.3332763

>>3332733
Tao Lin isn't pretentious, he's just a mountebank

>> No.3332764

I tried to type out Tao Lin's fishing poem and 4chan gave me a warning

Fuck you moot, you don't understand poetry

>> No.3332768

>>3332733
Why is Cicero positioning his arms as if he were a tyrannosaurus rex?

>> No.3332780

>>3332768
Because he's a fag

>> No.3332832

>>3332433
I just finished Richard Yates
Great stuff


I'm trying to read Shoplifting at AA but my EReader is blocking it for DRM, ugh

>> No.3332833

>>3332780
That's what I thought. He makes Tao Lin seem even cooler by comparison.