The Tao Lin Shakedown

I have nothing against Tao Lin personally; it's his "novel" and style of "writing" (or lack thereof), facile, self-indulgent, navel-gazing, narcissistic, monotonous, that I have a problem with. Here's an excerpt of Bock's snappy review in TNYTBR: Late in the book, Mom's feistiness returns, and there's an attempt at redemption for Haley Joel, but by [...:]