false 73946118 272322 6096464 1933633786 9781933633787 20 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1244502456m/6096464.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1244502456s/6096464.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6096464.Shoplifting_from_American_Apparel 3.58 126 - Time Out New York

"You don't think, 'I like this guy,' or 'I really dislike this guy.' You think, 'huh.' [...] Camus' The Stranger or 'sociopath?'"
- Los Angeles Times

“Tao Lin's sly, forlorn, deadpan humor jumps off the page. […] will delight fans of everyone from Mark Twain to Michelle Tea.”
– San Francisco Chronicle

“Scathingly funny for being so spare […] just might be the future of literature.”
– Austin Chronicle

"Candid...full of melancholy, tension, hilarity [...] [the characters'] despondence is unsettling.
- Boston Phoenix

“A fragile, elusive little book.”
– Village Voice

"Very funny."
- USA Today's Pop Candy

"Honest in the sense that these characters inhabit a real world at a real time."
- Anthem Magazine

"Draws its quiet force from the implication that, if an existential crisis doesn't destroy you, that only means it will last a month, a year, a lifetime."
- Yale Daily News]]> 161218 3.69 1464 326 2009 0 0 false Fri Oct 09 01:35:14 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 01:35:14 -0700 2009