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Dec 11, 2007

Jacob rated it:

I read this book and was completely frustrated by it. Imagine this, boring suburban kid drives around and has musings and thoughts that are as equally engaging. Add some dolphins and maybe a bear. The dolphins are homicidal. The bear is depressed. There might be aliens at the end. The president. It sounds good in the abstract but the execution is lacking. The writing is not engaging. Also, I saw Tao Lin read at The New Yipes in Oakland. I ate one of his grapes when he wasn't looking. I talked to More...

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Jan 27, 2008

Danielle rated it:

This book was truly godawful. Hipster pretention at its absolute worst. I went in honestly expecting to like this-- I was incredibly optimistic. The optimism began to wane several dozen pages in, and finally I only finished it out of determination to WIN over this piece of crap. And once I WON, I threw it across the room in frustration.

If this book had a face I would punch it.

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Mar 26, 2008

Angie rated it:

I read this book in sporadic one-hour installments during trips to a nearby Barnes & Noble. The Barnes & Noble has four floors. On the second or third floor, there's a café with a big sign at its entrance prohibiting patrons from bringing in food from outside vendors, but on the fourth floor, where the fiction is, I can sit on the floor or in a folding chair in the section where readings are held and eat anything I want. That’s not true; technically, I can’t eat in these places, but no one has e More...

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Sep 12, 2007

Andrea rated it:

The dumbest book ever. I had such high hopes, and it was awful. There was nothing clever or funny about it. It was just irritating. I think I quit about 40 pages in.

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Jul 29, 2008

Brent rated it:

Let me first say that I love and admire the title of this novel. I love and especially admire that each line of e's is a different length: 5, 3, 4. I can't explain why this appeals to me.

Next let me say that the design of this book, inside and outside, is nearly sublime. A notch below sublime. Subsublime. Melville House has a knack for these things.

I think I love and admire the title for its asymmetry but I don't know why asymmetry should appeal to me more than symmetry More...

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Oct 02, 2007

Noah rated it:

I think I might have been the first person to read this book except for tao lin: that makes me better than a lot of other people: when I read this book, my penis grew very hard, I broke a wooden table with my penis: Tao Lin wrote this book in a library and maybe in nowhere PA, in a town with a place called "Ming Moon" I ate there, he told me about his childhood and how he loved the song, "Sweet Home Alabama", he said he liked to replace the word "Alabama" with Flo More...

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Mar 19, 2008

snackywombat rated it:

Reading Tao Lin's novel is like going on an acid trip led by Thomas Pynchon and Richard Scarry. This book is determined to take you places and it will not be content with your contentedness. Not something to curl up with, rather it's something you read and hope that the subway doesn't come because you are not sure if you are going to be able to pick back up where you left off. Yet it comes and you open the book back up and you think: well, I wasn't quite sure what was going on anyway. There is s More...

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May 20, 2007

Eugene rated it:

Eeeee Eee Eeee gets better than it starts. it starts with the reputed tao or the expected tao lin, which is a kinduv updated beavis-&-butthead routine. constant defensive mockery coupled with surreal episodes that function as escape chutes out of narratives that have veered too close to actual confession. ...a dead-on description of a painful and common moment of (contemporary?) early adulthood: boredom and angst and suicide... "how do you have fun?" is the book's repeated questi More...

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May 11, 2008

Nathalie rated it:

I was somehow sure Eeeee Eee Eeee was a comedy: talking bears and dolphins, killing of famous guests, colour-happy cover and a weird and intriguing title. It actually is a rather depressing book about emptiness, feeling empty and having no purpose in life. Each character - including the beasts - is either depressed or about to die.
As for the form, it is not so much a novel as poetry in a form of a novel, which I always find hard to get into whoever the author is.
If you feel adventur More...

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Dec 17, 2009

Matt rated it:

The reviews for Tao Lin's work have been extraordinary, so I must be a damned idiot. Some kind of story line, syntax, sympathetic character, action, resolution, or point would have been appreciated. If Tao Lin wants to write about his own nihilistic philosophy, he should not do it under the guise of legitimate fiction. Oh, and there are moody, talking bears and dolphins.

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Jun 11, 2008

Patrick rated it:

Whenever the author approaches something that could be an interesting story line, he interupts it with dolphins, bears, moose, and/or hamsters. However, he did use very good punctionation, so he has that going for him.

I am not sure if I am most angry at the author for writing it, the publisher for publishing it, or Meera for suggusting it.

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Mar 25, 2008

Jennifer rated it:

This is the worst book i've ever read. It was as non-sensical as a dream. A bear suddenly appears in your car and talks to you......but it wants to detonate a bomb somewhere with your help...and in the meantime you have a crush on some girl you work with. Noooo...i couldnt take it.

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Dec 17, 2009

Christa rated it:

It's quite possible this book just went over my head...or it's possible that this book has nothing at all of interest to offer. I was once an Art school student and maybe the book would have "spoken" to me at that point, but I was also in high school and a self-indulgent little brat.

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May 26, 2007

Ofelia rated it:

I learned about trap-doors, bears, penguins, presidents, bunny-rabbits, aliens, alienation, alien-nation, existentialism, loneliness, and other things.

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Aug 12, 2007

Brandon rated it:

i laughed alot and was happy when i read it. i finished it in like an hour.

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Mar 05, 2008

Ramona rated it:

extremely strange and depressing yet wonderful at the same time.

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Jul 12, 2010

Jasmine rated it:

Okay so a third book review in just a few days, not bad for how far apart they have recently been.

This book is closer to Zachary German than Lin's novella. It is also a lot closer to andersen prunty. In a way it reads a lot like zerostrata, why is no one noticing that having a conversation with a bear is weird. I mean they do notice giving half your pay to a dolphin is weird, but really why is the dolphin not in water. But really do we care? I think not.

Unlike his other More...

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Aug 17, 2008

Teresa rated it:

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Sep 21, 2007

Derek rated it:

This book is definitely worth reading. It's a quick read and contains some of the most novel writing I have ever seen. I assure you that you will stop at least once and think "I have never seen a sentence like that in my entire life". That's a gratifying feeling. But there is a lot of literary value to this book-- see below:

This book is to absurdity what Super Flat Times is to nausea. Both are examples of what happens to characters who are stuck in a world apparently d More...

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Apr 20, 2008

Cat rated it:

i had the vague feeling the entire time spent reading this... that i would have found this book for sale at urban outfitters, or h&m. for those of you know know me, we are all aware of my hatred of reading material specifically marketed for "indie kids." this book also made me feel guilty about listening to the music i do, dressing the way i do, and basially everything about how i am, which made me a little grumpy. i may also have enjoyed this book more if i had been smoking a big fat More...

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Jul 30, 2007

K rated it:

I would like to swap this book for any of his other books as I have no money and can not find his books at the library which is where I usually find books.

I also saw him at work once, and it was weird because I knew who he was but he didn't even know I existed in life until I pushed some buttons on the register for his order.

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This book would start to get going and then get afraid and start talking about bears. There were some great moments to think about and y More...

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Jan 02, 2009

Mickey rated it:

Eeeee Eee Eeee is an American masterwork. I doubt anyone will write a novel like this in French.

Eeeee Eee Eeee is this country's masterwork. Tao Lin is an American (except he's a whole lot funnier). We are no longer used to novelists, or the tragic living-dead writers this country has produced. Tao Lin writes with dialogue and characters, sometimes in a single line. This novel is good, for a novel.

I hope my great-grandchildren will read Eeeee Eee Eeee, except the More...

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Oct 01, 2008

Alien rated it:

The apathetic state of the characters is, in my experience, reflective of the general state of things in America with young and old. People have little sense of purpose beyond simply being and go in whatever direction they are blown. Thus the state of being, for those still thinking at all, becomes a curious and questionable state and right and wrong actions merge in an indistinguishable cacophony of notes to choose from as easily as toys in a playground.
Additional note (10/01/08) - Onom More...

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Jan 18, 2009

Jerry rated it:

I don't agree with all the positive spin. Is this kid just an adept autistic who can dupe the cool kids into thinking his stringing together of random, asocial paraphernalia is art? I read the book in less than an hour and still felt like it was a waste of my time.

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Jan 25, 2009

Melissa added it

abandoned. this book reminded me of an awful club-kids-on-acid-meets-alien-invasion book an ex made me watch in 1997. I put it down after 40 something pages. It was HORRIBLE. And as I haven't had time to read in months, I was very upset that we bought the rag.

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Dec 16, 2009

Pernille added it

Shit-eating grin is probably my favorite quote ever.

I like Andrew and the way he thinks. I think the way Tao Lin portrays people and their thoughts is very similar to how people think in real life, they just don't express it out loud. I recognized a lot of my own thoughts and feelings in the book.. but they are things I didn't think the rest of the world were walking around thinking as well.
Not everyone is like that of course. But while the book is about depressed, lonely peopl More...

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Oct 21, 2007

Jay rated it:

I nearly quit this book after every page. It intentionally piles on reoccurring sentences so that you're left with less of a story and more of a feeling of confusion. I kept chugging away because I liked one in four of those sentences. The story mostly follows Andrew, a Domino's Pizza employee who can't stop thinking about a girl who left him. Every now and then he gets the urge to go on a killing rampage, and then hallucinates about a bear and dolphin. I could follow the storytelling, but man, More...

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May 28, 2007

William rated it:

I finished reading this book in a small shack in rural Wisconsin where a ram's skull was mounted on the outside wall. That has nothing to do with the book, but it was strange, and memorable. The book is good. About halfway through it, a new character named Ellen appears, and Ellen, for me, raised the book to a new level. I was interested in the character of Andrew, but he wasn't as clearly drawn and compelling. The ending of this book is very successful, too. It's subtle, and emotionally s More...

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Jan 20, 2009

Alexis rated it:

I want my time back. I want it back real good.

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Nov 20, 2011

Wally rated it:

This is a difficult book to review, because there is almost nothing in the way of plot, and it's written in almost a stream of consciousness style, with much repetition (made me think of Gertrude Stein).

It's mainly about a young man, Andrew, living in Florida after his parents have moved to Germany. He works for Domino's and thinks about his ex-girlfriend a lot. He's going through his life without a future, without friends, without family. Bears appear from time to time, and dolphins More...

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