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May 15th 2007
by Melville House
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Paperback, 224 pages
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The United States
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1933633255
(isbn13: 9781933633251)
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"Tao Lin writes from moods that less radical writers would let pass - from laziness, from vacancy, from boredom. And it turns out that his report...more
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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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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.
If this book had a face I would punch it.
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Read in March, 2008
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whoever designed the coverrecommends it for: people who need people
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 ...more
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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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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
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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Read in January, 2007
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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Read in March, 2008
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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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Read in May, 2007
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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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
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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Read in August, 2007
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stoners
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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Read in June, 2008
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.
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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Read in January, 2007
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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penguins with razor-fins
I learned about trap-doors, bears, penguins, presidents, bunny-rabbits, aliens, alienation, alien-nation, existentialism, loneliness, and other things.
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i laughed alot and was happy when i read it. i finished it in like an hour.
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Read in January, 2007
extremely strange and depressing yet wonderful at the same time.
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Read in July, 2007
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Fans of postmodern absurdity
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
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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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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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
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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Read in May, 1911
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Tao Linrecommends it for: Tao Lin
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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"Moose had no friends that year. A lot of the time a moose would feel tired and lean against other moose. Only there wouldn't be moose there and the moose would fall."
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