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Are Tao Lin's books worth reading?

>> No.4576907

>>4576888
Dude

1. Start reading one
2. Decide if you want to continue

If that doesn't answer your question you should've been more specific

>> No.4576910

Nope.

>> No.4576917

tao please leave

>> No.4576932

>>4576907
I mean, books cost money. I want to know whether his novels are worth my ten dollars.

>> No.4576933

>>4576932
>>>4576907
You can preview almost all his books on Amazon

>> No.4576950

STOP MAKING THREADS ABOUT YOURSELF ALREADY, TAO LIN

>> No.4576971

just read his twitter

>> No.4576978
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>> No.4577023

>>4576888
If you are a member of High Culture, classically educated, then you will without a doubt despise his work. If you come from middle class suburbia, you were publicly educated, at some point moved to the "Big City", became a drug addict, could be described as a casual reader, and, as a product of your social ineptness, feel alienated, anxious and depressed, then, and only then, will you enjoy his work. If style or quality are of any importance to you, if you dislike lazy writers who pretend to be minimalists, if on the whole you prefer pre-war writers, then you won't like Tao one bit.

>> No.4577457

There's a nice download pack to three of his books called "Best of Jackie Chan" floating around.

I can see why he writes the way he does, but I don't like reading it. It's boring in a mostly non-interest way.

>> No.4577462

>>4577023
Calm it down spergy the next season of your chinese cartoon will be our soon.

>> No.4577476

>>4576978
>ulysses
>all those clunky adverbs
>bland colorless prose

oh i get it. jamba juyce was such a genius and he's parodying shit writing, right?

>> No.4577812

if you have experience using drugs. it's hard to grasp if you've never done anything beyond alcohol and cough syrup.

>> No.4577855

Tao's got some good essays.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/opinion/sunday/when-i-moved-online.html
^ that's my favorite probably

his koko one is also classic
http://thoughtcatalog.com/tao-lin/2011/02/koko-the-talking-gorilla/

>> No.4577868

>>4576888
i met him once doing a talk with Ben Brooks in edinburgh, I was gonna buy his book until he read a section out and it was the most boring shit i'd ever heard. get lolito instead

>> No.4577910

>>4577868
go ben

>> No.4578147

>>4577855
His essay on the VA Tech school massacre was actually very moving, I thought.

>> No.4578162

>>4578147
Link: http://archive.is/vTBNI

>> No.4578194

>>4578162
wow