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Tao Lin

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url
http://www.goodreads.com/taolin

born
July 02, 1983

gender
male

website

genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Comics & Graphic Novels

influences
Books I added as "read."

member since
May 2007





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avg rating: 3.71 | 1,162 ratings | 294 reviews | 9 distinct works | 22 fans
Eeeee Eee Eeee Eeeee Eee Eeee
by Tao Lin (Goodreads author)
avg rating 3.41 — 494 ratings — published 2007
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Bed Bed
by Tao Lin (Goodreads author)
avg rating 3.84 — 257 ratings — published 2007
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you are a little bit happier t... you are a little bit happier than i am
by Tao Lin (Goodreads author)
avg rating 3.97 — 181 ratings — published 2006
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy:... Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Poetry
by Tao Lin (Goodreads author)
avg rating 4.10 — 105 ratings — published 2008
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The Apocalypse Reader The Apocalypse Reader
by Justin Taylor (Editor), Grace Aguilar Steve Aylett
avg rating 3.38 — 53 ratings — published 2007
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Today The Sky is Blue and Whit... Today The Sky is Blue and White with Bright Blue Spots and a Small Pale Moon and I Will Destroy Our Relationship Today
by Tao Lin (Goodreads author)
avg rating 4.33 — 27 ratings — published 2006
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Hikikomori Hikikomori
by Ellen Kennedy (Goodreads author), Tao Lin (Goodreads author)
avg rating 4.52 — 23 ratings — published 2007
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The Brandon Book Crisis The Brandon Book Crisis
by Brandon Scott Gorrell (Goodreads author) (Editor), Tao Lin (Goodreads author) (Editor)
avg rating 4.40 — 10 ratings — published 2009
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Shoplifting from American Appa... Shoplifting from American Apparel
by Tao Lin (Goodreads author)
avg rating 4.12 — 8 ratings — published 2009
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More books by Tao Lin…
April 14
Nervous Assface Tao gave 5 of 5 stars to:
Nervous Assface (html)
by Brandon Scott Gorrell (Goodreads author)
my rating:
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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April 10
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Tao read and liked Evan White's review of Sometimes My Heart Pushes My Ribs:

"The title describes what will happen as you read it. After I finished it, I took a nap, feeling like I could rise above my body and continue the experience of living in these words. When I woke up, I felt like a piece of gravel that had just been p...more "
February 26
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Tao read and liked Sam Pink's review of During My Nervous Breakdown I Want to Have a Biographer Present:

"after reading this book, i am still trying to determine if i could beat brandon up, or if like, he is one of those guys that just freaks out and destroys you. the poems are good. "
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Tao read and liked Colin's review of During My Nervous Breakdown I Want to Have a Biographer Present:

"i like these poems. "
December 27, 2008
Yesterday I Was Talk... Tao gave 5 of 5 stars to:
Yesterday I Was Talking to Myself (html)
by Ellen Kennedy (Goodreads author)
my rating:
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Tao Tao said: "i like it "
Eat When You Feel Sa... Tao gave 5 of 5 stars to:
Eat When You Feel Sad (html)
by Zachary German
my rating:
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Tao Tao said: "i like it "
63: Dream Palace, Se... Tao gave 5 of 5 stars to:
63: Dream Palace, Selected Stories, 1956-1987 (Paperback)
by James Purdy
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Tao Tao said: "i like this

the earlier ones are like more-detached and funnier kmart realism maybe

i recommend this for people who think it is funny when people are severely detached or confused
"
Hikikomori Tao gave 5 of 5 stars to:
Hikikomori (html)
by Ellen Kennedy (Goodreads author), Tao Lin (Goodreads author)
my rating:
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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Tao Tao said: "i like it "
Compassionate Moose Tao gave 5 of 5 stars to:
Compassionate Moose (html)
by Mazie Louise Montgomery
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Tao Tao said: "i like it "
More of Tao's books…
"...one had to expect very little--almost nothing--from life, Aaron knew, one had to be grateful, not always trying to seize the days like some maniac of living, but to give oneself up, be seized by the days, the months and years, be taken up in the froth of sun and moon, some pale and smoothie-ed river-cloud of life, a long, drawn-out, gray sort of enlightenment, so that when it was time to die, one did not scream swear words and knock things down, did not make a scene, but went easily with understanding and tact, and quietly in a lightly pummeled way, having been consoled--having allowed to be consoled--by the soft, generous, worthlessness of it all, having allowed to be massaged by the daily beating of life, instead of just beaten. "
Tao Lin (Bed)
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"You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected."
Tao Lin (Bed)
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"He used to think things like, This organic soymilk will make me healthy and that'll make my brain work better and that'll improve my writing. Also things like, The less I eat the less money I spend on publicly owned companies the less pain and suffering will exist in the world. Now he thinks things like, It is impossible to be happy. Why would anyone think that? "
Tao Lin (Eeeee Eee Eeee)
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message 49: by Jordan
05/09/2009 06:29PM

1168060 do you think i am 'trying to be a badass'?


message 48: by Ruby
04/29/2009 08:40AM

2252145 Thanks for accepting me as your friend. WOW... You have so many friends and if I get lucky a couple of them might be interested in reading "The Little Black Fish" translated by Ruby Emam.


message 47: by Quincy
03/28/2009 02:15PM

1526037 I just finished reading "Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Poetry". I liked it.
I like how you're breaking a lot of the rules that my professors tell me not to in my poetry workshops.


message 46: by W. (last edited 03/10/2009 02:28PM)
03/10/2009 02:27PM

545392 Have fun in Germany! I hope you have a better experience than the food than Snoop and his family did. That is reality t.v. knowledge I am sharing with you. I think it's like sharing reality knowledge with you. Just a little more displacement. Tell them you are a dissident and that the U.S. treats you horribly and maybe Europeans will feel bad and give you things free. Since they like hate us. Again.


message 45: by Shadonna
01/31/2009 01:51PM

1698583 Thanks for the add. Have a great weekend!


message 44: by Brooklyn
01/28/2009 01:44PM


message 43: by William
01/24/2009 07:03AM

1464559 Talk to you soon...http://www.billhazelgrove.com
http://www.amazon.com/review/product/061...
http://www.pantonnepress.com/chapter1.pd...
Best Book of 2008... San Antonio Express


message 42: by Saleh
12/25/2008 01:56PM

362086 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.What We Talk About When We Talk About Love?PLZ Answer The Question In My Profile.


message 41: by Marlaina
12/13/2008 02:16PM

825782 that's for allowing me to be your friend! thanks sweetie!


message 40: by E
09/23/2008 10:03PM

1120647 holy toe-lee-doh!
okay
I found this really trippy:
I was in the bookstore where I work flipping through a catalog of books-
and before my eyes I see a book entitled "eeeee eee eeee" which is weird because the name of my solo project is called eeeeeeee(myspace.com/ebojnowski) and everyone makes fun of my name. so I decided I had to order the book and I am reading it now and it totally embodies my eeeeeeee philosophies.
so ... thanks.



message 39: by Bamboo
09/05/2008 01:06PM

369056 Were you at Bobst library yesterday (Thursday the 4th) in a pink shirt?


message 38: by Dee Dee M
07/29/2008 12:26PM

1303783 Hi Tao!
Thanks for the add.
Keep in contact!
Have a great one!


message 37: by Sean
06/11/2008 08:09AM

938833 Hi Tao. :)


message 36: by Tara
06/02/2008 05:50PM

62580 Hey,
I saw your book at the Union Square B & N, and I was like HEY I know him. Just thought I'd send you a shout.


message 35: by Jeremy
01/24/2008 12:00AM

630905 I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me yesterday. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened to create so many messages. Some weird glitch.

Argh...this is terrible...

Again, I'm very sorry.

-Jeremy


message 34: by Bradley
01/07/2008 01:25PM

728016 I like your userpic very much, but I am disappointed that you don't look like it.


message 33: by Jeremy
01/01/2008 02:02PM

630905 Here’s wishing you a nifty New Year filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats.

-Jeremy :)

P.S.—I’m currently offering autographed/personally-inscribed copies of my novel, Vacation, with free shipping for those in the US. If there’s anything you could do to help me spread the word about this, I’d really appreciate it. Feel free to click here for details:
http://hauntedhousedressing.com/signed.h...


message 32: by Jeremy
12/24/2007 12:51AM

630905 Hi Tao!

Here’s wishing you a yippee-filled Yuletime overflowing with yard-long yams, yapping yoyo-yanking yetis, yak-milk yeast-cakes, and yellow yarn-yielding year-end yard-gnomes.

-Jeremy :)


message 31: by Jeremy
12/08/2007 03:18PM

630905 Hi Tao!

If you don't mind sharing--I was wondering, what's your favorite novel of all time? Or novels?

Here’s wishing you a fantastic day filled with fabulous friendships, fanciful festivities, and frolicking phantom footstools.

-Jeremy :)


message 30: by Jennifer
11/08/2007 07:58PM

102611 hello!


message 29: by Leah
09/12/2007 06:13PM

88572 Hey, I came across the interview of you in Giant Robot... I'll be sure to check out your books sometime!


message 28: by Scott
08/15/2007 08:07AM

111717 Loved EEE. We should do a little animated thing sometime soon!


message 27: by Alien
08/10/2007 05:22PM

13666 Hmmm, I liked E.E.E., especially my signed copy...supercool, thank you. I simply have a slight preference for the collection of stories in Bed and so gave Bed 5 and E.E.E. 4 stars...maybe others felt the same way. And (a more cynical view), maybe the higher rating reflect something of the need for shorter doses of what you prescribe...perhaps they reflect our diminishing attention-span.

Whatever it is, keep up the wonderful writing!


message 26: by Tao (last edited 08/10/2007 03:58PM)
08/10/2007 03:57PM

89893 eeeee eee eeee is getting shit on.

bed is doing good.

the poetry book is doing good.


message 25: by Mumolo
08/08/2007 06:53PM

261256 good is good


message 24: by Jack
08/07/2007 05:11PM

261013 I had to do the four star thing because her second book was just better.


message 23: by Jennifer
07/30/2007 11:18AM

102611 thank you for signing my books. i enjoyed your reading @ 21 grand last night. i liked when you laughed while reading your story.


message 22: by Pia
07/21/2007 03:56PM

141903 Hi Tao. I have your two new books on my table.


message 21: by Tao
07/05/2007 01:35PM

89893 hi. the two copies have been given to alien and megan.

i liked your bird addition. thank you.


message 20: by Alien (last edited 07/05/2007 07:44AM)
07/05/2007 07:40AM

13666 So, did I win a copy of e.e.e? And what did you think of what I did to your bird?

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID...

:-)


message 19: by Tao
07/04/2007 02:40PM

89893 the next two people who message me their address i will send e.e.e. with drawings inside

i wrote the kung fu book in 9th grade, i don't like it anymore but i'm not going to deny i wrote it




message 18: by Alien (last edited 07/03/2007 08:26PM)
07/03/2007 08:19PM

13666 Tao, I think you should send a free copy of Eeeee Eee Eeee to all your friends on Goodreads, ...especially me. :-) Happy Birthday!

Note: You must find it somewhat amusing to be credited on Goodreads with having written a chinese language exercise manual called Kung Fu. Ni keyi shuo zhongguo hua ma?


message 17: by Kate
06/28/2007 12:27PM

155842 you drew me a squid thinking about richard nash at BEA. hello!


message 16: by Jennifer
06/27/2007 11:42AM

102611 the word on the street is that you are going to be in oakland sometime in late july. is this true? i am so there.


message 15: by Amy
06/19/2007 12:02AM

135295 your tiny sideways face picture with hand and moustache (?) is freaking me out.

i hope you aren't getting fake money for those fake jobs.

i haven't forgotten to book you, incidentally. i think you'll go in january since you want to be with stobb? that's his available date. otherwise, i can book you before then if you like, providing your fake schedule doesn't get in the way. please let me know your preference, o exercise master (how has that not been rated yet?)~


message 14: by Amy
06/18/2007 11:51PM

135295 why not a fake one then?


message 13: by Amy
06/18/2007 11:47PM

135295 Several.

Why don't you?


message 12: by Amy
06/18/2007 11:43PM

135295 Thanks!

Shouldn't you be in bed about now?


message 11: by Tana
06/07/2007 06:18AM

50670 I was born July 10, 1955


message 10: by Jennifer
06/04/2007 11:31PM

102611 i saw your books at the bookstore today!


message 9: by Chris (last edited 06/02/2007 03:15AM)
06/02/2007 03:14AM

36341 Wait, are you suggesting someone on goodreads (or any social site for that matter) is adding peeople to their friends list . . . randomly!? (gasp)

Kick me in the head if I'm wrong, but isn't that what 90% of people on these sites do? Susie, Ryan, be honest - did you take everyone on your friends list out for a cup of coffee, share memories from middle-school, and offer to walk their dog before you added them? My guess is no.


So the dude's asked everyone and his brother to be his friend. Everyone on the list (including you) said yes, so it doesn't seem like anyone is really hurting too much, now are they?

Relax. Go rate a book or organize your shelves.


message 8: by Sarah
06/01/2007 08:07PM

73052 Tao Lin, do you know Deb Olin Unferth? I have taken a couple of classes with her...I think she mentioned you in class...something about talking to your girlfriend's mother?


message 7: by Ryan
05/30/2007 03:27PM

78757 I don't know Tao or any of his friends (well, the 30 or so I looked at out of 882) in any sense whatsoever, and when he invited me to be his friend I thought 'cool, it's always good to make random new friends.' Then I saw he was a budding author, and the throbbing cynicsm within lead me to surmise that he's using goodreads.com to drop excerpts and then invite lots of potential book-buying 'friends'. Surely that's not the case. Say it ain't so Tao, say it ain't so.


message 6: by Ben
05/30/2007 09:32AM

74259 hi. are you aware that you're dead?


message 5: by Brian
05/29/2007 10:27AM

23434 The Tao of Tao is O.K. by me. Thanks!


message 4: by Bunny
05/25/2007 01:54AM

93148 what it is, brother?


message 3: by Tao (last edited 06/18/2007 10:46AM)
05/23/2007 11:11PM

89893 i like friends.


message 2: by Michael
05/23/2007 12:10PM

35870 i also think tao is adding everyone, but I think that is because he actually wants to be everybody's friend.

hey tao,
I will be in brooklyn this summer. can i crash on your couch?


message 1: by Susie (last edited 06/27/2007 01:05AM)
05/23/2007 10:04AM

26417 i think tao is adding everyone on goodreads to be his friend!


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