Tao Lin
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http://www.goodreads.com/taolin
born
July 02, 1983
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Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Comics & Graphic Novels
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Books I added as "read."
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May 2007
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14 postsTao Lin's Blog
avg rating: 3.69
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Eeeee Eee Eeee by Tao Lin (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.39 — 564 ratings — published 2007 |
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Bed by Tao Lin (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.78 — 292 ratings — published 2007 |
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you are a little bit happier than i am by Tao Lin (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.98 — 197 ratings — published 2006 |
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Poetry by Tao Lin (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.01 — 135 ratings — published 2008 |
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Shoplifting from American Apparel by Tao Lin (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.70 — 80 ratings — published 2009 |
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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 4.30 — 30 ratings — published 2006 |
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Hikikomori by Ellen Kennedy (Goodreads author), Tao Lin (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.46 — 26 ratings — published 2007 |
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The Brandon Book Crisis by Brandon Scott Gorrell (Goodreads author) , Tao Lin (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.17 — 12 ratings — published 2009 |
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Conor Oberst Sex by Kendra Grant Malone, Tao Lin (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published 2009 |
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Tao Lin on tour for the book "Shoplifting from American Apparel"
Author appearance, November 11, 2009 08:00PM
CPR Center for Performing Research, 361 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn, NY, The United States
Please allow us to invite you to this month's installment of "Projection: A...more
Author appearance, November 11, 2009 08:00PM
CPR Center for Performing Research, 361 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn, NY, The United States
Please allow us to invite you to this month's installment of "Projection: A...more
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"I 'unexpectedly stumbled' upon this novella at a 'pretty authentic' bookstore in NYC. This book 'surprised me' and may have caused me to 'soil myself at the absurdity of everything' + falter in 'productivity level' [via reading during 'study time':]....more " | |
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gave AEIOU: Any Easy Intimacy (Aeiou) by Jeffrey Brown (Goodreads author) |
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gave The Collected Stories of Richard Yates (Paperback) by Richard Yates |
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gave Burning Babies (Paperback) by Noah Cicero (Goodreads author) |
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review of Shoplifting from American Apparel:
"Shoplifting from American Apparel does not have one-liners I think. It is refreshing. Maybe the book is the opposite of a one-liner. How it expresses meaninglessness is meaningful. Also, does the ending refers to the ending in Raymond Carv...more " | |
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"...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)
— Tao Lin (Bed)
"Matt would stare at Andrew for 10 minutes. It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat."
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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.
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.
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.
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Best Book of 2008... San Antonio Express
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.What We Talk About When We Talk About Love?PLZ Answer The Question In My Profile.
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.
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.
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
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...
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 :)
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 :)
Hey, I came across the interview of you in Giant Robot... I'll be sure to check out your books sometime!
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!
thank you for signing my books. i enjoyed your reading @ 21 grand last night. i liked when you laughed while reading your story.
So, did I win a copy of e.e.e? And what did you think of what I did to your bird?
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the next two people who message me their address i will send e.e.e. with drawings insidei wrote the kung fu book in 9th grade, i don't like it anymore but i'm not going to deny i wrote it
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?
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.
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?)~
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.
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?
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.
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?










































































































