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>read shoplifting from american apparel
>it's unironically rubbish

If you read a page long excerpt then you could multiply it by 95 and that's literally the book. I honestly think that reading his twitter feed would be a more worthwhile thing to do.

I feel conned.

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5194997

>Reading Taolin

>> No.5195055

Yep it sucks

It was a short story his publishers wanted to make into a novella for a series they were doing about the contemporary novella

His whole shtick up until Taipei was an aggressive money grab

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5195066

>>5194993
>I honestly think that reading his twitter feed would be a more worthwhile thing to do.

Well, yeah.

>> No.5195085

>>5195055
Is Taipei actually different? I read a few of his novellas and all ofthem were just "disenfranchised rich kids with no purpose in life walking around, taking different drugs", and from what I've read of Taipei, it's the same.

>> No.5195094

Anyone who has seen Tao Lin talking can tell he has a major social dysfunction. Maybe his work is meant to express, maybe not, but it does either way.

>> No.5195104

>>5195085
It's much better written because he moved up to a big publishing house and has a serious editor who probably lets no indulgent shit into his book and pushes him to structure properly

>> No.5195117

>>5195094
I'm pretty sure all his books are more or less autobiographical, seeing as he actually does things like "liveblogging being on mushrooms for the first time in ~1.5 (?) yrs"

I like to think that he's completely out of it on LSD in every interview and reading he does

>> No.5195770

>>5195117
he probably is

>>5195094
really

are there videos

>>5195104
is it actually good

>> No.5195803

>>5195770
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNzpyoHsMms

So high. So fucking high.

>> No.5195882

>>5195803
I can't handle awkward stuff. I can't watch DFW interviews, and I would be unable to meet the eyes of anyone in >>5194208. Can I handle this?