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1/28/10

'[a]ndrew gives a surprising take on this controversial novelist and his latest novella' (more info here)

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brett favre said...: mrhands.gif; 2:18 AM
rubpawpress said...: This is horrible.
This is a horrible interview.

"This book's not doing it for me"
"It's shallow"

Jesus.

"You'll either love it or hate it"
"At the end of the day..."

Jesus.; 3:44 AM
Anonymous said...: i think, huh, camus' the stranger or sociopath; 4:35 AM
matthew said...: 'stranger than fiction TV' is a stupid name

what is strange about book reviews

and you're only reviewing fiction anyway

this isn't TV

there's already been a TV show 'stranger than fiction'

it was a documentary show because the cliche is about 'fact' and documentaries have a lot of facts

you are implying your reviews are facts

but mostly you just use relativistic cliches

'stranger than fiction TV' is a stupid name; 8:08 AM
Byron said...: damn; 8:24 AM
steve roggenbuck said...: 2 minutes in, he hasn't said anything about your book; 10:16 AM
david fishkind said...: homeboy give no love; 10:31 AM
thomas said...: we're bored of shoplifting

write another moderately interesting novel

we are bored of shit talking the same novel constantly

this is old news

for fucks sake; 12:51 PM
Anonymous said...: seems like he has a bright future in vlogging, wonder what his fiction is like.

shakespeare. james joyce. andrew ross.; 2:39 PM
Patrick @ LitVision said...: Uh Oh! Now all the hipster emo kids will be buying JD Salinger's new books, and Tao will starve.; 3:16 PM
Jordan Castro said...: god damn bitches...; 3:22 PM
Anonymous said...: heheheheheheheheee

good stuff; 4:02 PM
Anonymous said...: ayn rand vs. tao lin; 4:03 PM
henry said...: "kinda ironic"; 4:31 PM
henry said...: "kind of a self made man"; 4:31 PM
Anonymous said...: seems pretty sweet; 5:34 PM
Jonny Ross said...: i'm confused. what is 'deconstructionalist, minimalist' literature? is that what you get if you tried to write like carver after having read derrida's grammatology. think that would be a pretty 'messed up' book.

'but then again,' if it's not shakespeare or joyce it's not good 'cuz they're like super genuises or something and the only ones who give james wood a boner, and that's what it's all about 'after all'.

'lol'@'all my dead writer homies'; 5:03 PM
paul said...: wow. andrew's voice makes me want to eat rocks.

i love how he needed to spell out your name. T-A-O L-I-N. psh, that wasn't degrading or offensive or anything...

i love how he can't even hold up your book. i mean, it is pretty heavy.

i feel like he made you sound like some sort of lab rat.

i feel like he's a major douchenozzle. who is probably secretly some sort of white supremacist. who probably still takes fashion advice from his mother.; 6:38 PM
Anonymous said...: really bad review, god awful

he didn't talk about anything people haven't already talked about

he looks like an asshole

the camera is so far away

the other books he mentions are totally different from tao's book and not to mention they are 50plus years old.; 8:30 PM
Anonymous said...: the amount of words he used, without actually saying anything, sort of reminded me of the book he was reviewing.

how... ironic.; 11:15 PM
Elise said...: When he says 'masterpieces," I think he means 'codpieces.'

Elise is 'tired' of 'masterpieces.'; 2:38 AM
iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii said...: The review aside, his view of literature appears very 'flawed.'

Maybe he was a business major, or something.; 11:07 PM
Tao Lin said...: @[all] sweet; 11:51 AM
Ryan said...: I still don't understand his "hundred point scale."; 3:15 AM
unclefarkus said...: I have created a submission at:

http://unclefarkus.com/?p=2441; 7:31 PM

TAO LIN | BLOG

1/28/10

6-minute/1-star amazon video review re 'shoplifting from american apparel'

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