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>>2166317

wtf was that......seriously what did i just read

>>2166321

i mean what was this

>>2166321

>>2166327

>>2166331
>autistic vegans can still rape people

This shit's deep, yo.

>>2166331

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>>2166341

Welp, that's enough of that forever.

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>>2166370

The fuck is this?...

>>2166374

>>2166384

Throw the towel in, Tao Lin
Throw the towel in, Tao Lin

>>2166389

>>2166395

>>2166396
Do you have the rest at hand? Could you upload it as a zip or something?

>>2166396
Error in some format. Small text, this time.

>>2166411

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>>2166431

Why not just post a zip or rar of all these instead of making all these individual posts?

>>2166419
>watching Oldboy
>not just straight up saying, "They watched Oldboy."

>>2166439

>>2166442
Make it yourself, tinkertwat.

>>2166445

I'm not the one with the source, shithead.

>>2166444

>>2166450

>>2166449
Eat turds. I don't want to make a zip file, so there.

>>2166454

>>2166461

I read it and it has no point. The writing is bland and boring. I feel like I'm reading something intentionally made to look like a 10 year old wrote it.

>>2166466

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>>2166478

>>2166468

>2011
>still thinks things have to have 'a point' aka 'meaning'

go to hell fascist

>>2166484

>Likes reading about Dakota Fagging and Haley Joel Oswald doing nothing

Enjoy your meaningless drivel commie.

>>2166490

I read it in a couple hours, enjoyed it for what it was

then I went back to masturbating over pics of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis

>>2166495

tarr is a hilariously bad book

>>2166494

>Implying most people on welfare aren't white

white guilt anal redneck

>>2166480

Honestly, what the hell is up with the Dakota Fanning stuff? Does she know this guy uses her name in his books? Why does he even do it?

I've written better stories for my state Standardized Testings.

No seriously, I'm not even kidding. How did this fucktard get published?

>>2166499
TAR?

So this book is about two white kids complaining about how sad and lonely they are because they don't have such and such. Then they proceed to cry about it and have lame sex.

I must say. He is the voice of a generation.

wtf is this shit, seriously, /lit/ reading this garbage.


why /lit/, why?

>>2166502

>>2166527

>>2166525
Hm. It's about being informed. A lot of people on here have never read Tao Lin.

Now they know for certain what shit it is.

>>2166531
why I don't understand is the obsession with Tao Lin in this board, I mean, there are plenty of awful authors, why this Tao Lin obsession?

that fixiation in Tao Lin...

>>2166529

>>2166534
There really is no published author (still living) who is quite as bad as Tao Lin.

Sure, there are worse writers in romance and YA fiction (pic related) but none of them command any sway in the literary world. Tao Lin, for some reason, does.

>>2166536
"Think about hamster ass," said Haley Joel Osment. "Your brain will generate power. It works. Think about hamster ass shaking and sweating."

>>2166539
YA fiction is an absolute joke. My kids are going to jump directly from children's books to Hemingway and skip all the platitudes. So ordered.

>>2166546
whatthefuckamireading.jpg

What's with the hate from /lit/?
>not understanding that the shitty writing is intentional
Gertrude Stein did this 100 years ago, but I don't think Tao is awful necessarily.

>>2166553
He's pretty bad.

>>2166536

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>>2166571

Reading this "prose" makes me angry and sad: angry that it was published, sad that it's read.

>>2166574

>>2166578

>>2166576
u mad, not sad

>>2166579

>>2166442
If this is really the whole thing, and we requested for it to be archived, chanarchive lets you download all the images from a thread in one zip.

>>2166583

It's like he's not even trying to write well. Even Stephanie fucking Meyer is better than this bland garbage.

>>2166585

>>2166587
I don't even think TAR would accept this.

>>2166589

>>2166592

What in the everliving fuck is going on in this thead?

>>2166596

>>2166597
In a nutshell: someone who doesn't know the Roman numeral for 40 is spamming Tao Lin's "Richard Yates."

>>2166599
Well, it is the worst dump I have ever seen in a thread and I lurk /b/ and /x/. So that says a lot. Remind me to never, ever consider reading that horseshit.

its kind of like raymond carver railed a bunch of klonopins

(fuck you tao that's not a compliment)

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>>2166617

I can see why he would purposefully write this way but it doesn't work if the plot or charters are uninteresting. Something has to have depth.

>>2166622
Gonna workout. Post the rest later.

>>2166628
No rush. Really.

this shit is fucking terrible.

I couldn't get past the first 10 pages you posted here. shits too bad.

>>2166625
The monotony is the point. The prose is trying to accomplish the same thing Joyce's Portrait did; reflecting the personalities of the characters. Characters are uninteresting and awkward? It's mirrored in the prose and accurately portrays a certain group of people well. In addition, it's a reaction to the recent trend of 'how much shit can i fit into this novel?' This stuff isn't complex, and doesn't try to be.

But whatever, yes Tao isn't the greatest writer of the 21st century (better than Franzen lol), but it's interesting writing that's trying something different.

>>2166634
>>2166634
>it's interesting writing

...

>it's interesting writing

...

>interesting
>writing
>it's interesting writing

...

I kinda liked it. It reminded me of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

>>2166640
You shut your whore mouth while men are talking.

This is really one of the most encouraging threads ever posted on /lit/.

You think your writing is bad? You think you're inept as an author? Well, look at this shit that got published. People buy this trash. And they read it and enjoy it.

If this can get published, ANYTHING can get published.

>>2166638

this gets at the crux of the matter i thihnk

like it can be as interesting conceptually as it wants and it is but at the end of the day i enjoy enjoying reading too much to read "interesting" reading that doesn't put any of the interesting on the page itself to interest me when i read

>>2166647
Nobody buys Tao Lin's books. He's poor as hell. You are not as good as he is at hyping himself up.

quints?

>>2166665
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903392904576508622955428998.html

Author Tao Lin sold his next novel to Vintage Books over the weekend, Mr. Lin's agent Bill Clegg confirmed. The book was sold following an auction among publishers last week, though neither would confirm the amount paid.

"Taipei, Taiwan," a paperback original, will be a fictionalized but largely autobiographical account of the 28-year-old New York-based author's life. "A 25-year-old has a failed relationship, experiences drug-induced 'depression,' gets married, and feels like his life has taken on a forward movement toward death," Mr. Lin explained in an email. "I predict I'll spend more time on this book than any previous book and view it as my 'magnum opus.'"

>>2166667

None of that sounds interesting.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I keep trying to rationalize this somehow, to find meaning in the work or to decide for sure that it is absolute and total shit and I no longer have to keep looking. Is that what he's trying to accomplish?

Fuck this, Homestuck is so much simpler. I'm fucking off to HSG again where the shit is obviously shit and I don't have to worry about missing all the deep literary meaning behind Ovipositive or something.

>>2166679
No, it doesn't sound interesting.

But, one can't assert that Tao Lin is broke or that there isn't a literary sect that (inexplicably) buys and reads his books.

Unless the WSJ has their facts wrong, it seems like his career is taking off.

>>2166686
>WSJ
>facts

>>2166667
WSJ: Have you ever met Bill Clegg "IRL?"

Tao Lin: No.

WSJ: Have you ever G-chatted with Bill Clegg?

Tao Lin: No.

WSJ: Do you feel happy about the deal?

Tao Lin: Yes, I'm very happy. Vintage/Knopf publishes most of my favorite writers: Lorrie Moore, Joy Williams, Ann Beattie, Bret Easton Ellis.

: D

>>2166712

>2011
>Using emoticons

What are you going to do in 2012?

>>2166712
Nice uncracked spines, asshole.

>>2166712

OH! I've heard of Shoplifting From American Apparel! Sounded interesting; good to know I can just skip it.

So Tao Lin is basically /lit/'s Neutral Milk Hotel, is it?

>>2166721

no neutral mlk hotel is good

>>2166722
0/10

>>2166721
If Tao Lin started playing guitar with his feet and reading one of his books aloud and occasionally throwing in the word jesus, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

>>2166712

Cool waste of money

Someone tell me what exactly is wrong with Tao Lin in simple terms without argument or confusion. Can that happen?

>>2166748

There's nothing wrong with him. He's just a writer.

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>>2166807

: /

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>>2166818

this is some real next-level shit. i'm on the edge of my macbook.

>>2166820

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>>2166829

I've put in an archive request for this. Not because it's representative of /lit/'s tastes, or even literature at all, but because I can't be bothered reading it all right now and I want to be able to save all the images in one zip.

If anyone else wants the same thing, it needs another three votes:

http://chanarchive.org/request_votes

although I won't be losing sleep if it doesn't happen. lol.

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>>2166634
IF THE CHARACTERS ARE UNINTERESTING AND AWKWARD

THEN IT'S A SHITTY BOOK

YOU DUMBASS

>>2166897

>>2166904

Tao Lin is more or less a young Joyce.

>>2166907

>>2166908
He's more like a young Rainman.

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>>2166310
Richard Yates is terrible (which is being posted.) Book Eeeee Eee Eeee so you can get it when it comes back in. Vastly superior. Old Tao was good, before he got popular and tried to hard and failed.

Not even hipstering here.

>>2166957

>>2166960
Because this isn't /b/.

>>2166967

>>2166962
You are hipstering.

Poor, poor Richard Yates. I now feel like I should read one of his books. Tried Cold Spring Harbor a while ago and didn't like it, but I'm willing to give him a second try.

>>2166979
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>>2167032
Wow, you guys. 100 pointless pages of garbage from the hand of Tao Lin.

Did you 'gasm? I 'gasmed.

>>2166962
>Old Tao was good, before he got popular
>before he got popular.
>Not even hipstering

Is that the end of the thread? Even if it is, I'm sure it's more than enough to start reading the book and say

>erk, I'm not reading this shit.

This is like some weird erotic literature you'd find online but without the eroticism.

I must say, though, that that does give it a certain charm...

Tao's normally so diligent about protecting his copyright. I don't suppose he's posted this himself and deliberately left the end off so we'll be champing at the bit to read the end and go out and buy the book.

This shit is better than Milan Kundera.

Tao Lin, shall I compare thee to a steamy dogshit?
Thou art more creamy and more stench-ridden:
Rough winds do flutter the darling pages of Richard Yates,
And the Library's borrowing period hath all too short a date.

>>2167171

... what?

>>2167150
So far, I've only posted half. It's a long book.

I'll post the rest when I feel like it, or if there is sufficient demand for the rest.

No problem. Thanks for posting as much as you have.

Personally, I'd like to see the rest. Maybe you'd find it faster to zip the images and upload it to rapidshare or something? Anyway, I'm not in any rush.

>>2167032

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>>2167338

The main problem with Tao Lin is that he tries so hard to be weird and quirky and different that he ends up being boring. Either that or English isn't his first language and he would write exponentially better in Taiwanese.

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>>2167350

I suddenly feel better about my own writing. Thanks Tao.

>>2167353

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>>2167354
That's the idea. ;)

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>>2167410

This is the worst thing I have ever read. The sample I read of shoplifting from american apparel was actually not that bad, but this is horrendous.

Now I understand why the guy is so hated here.

saging this garbage
fuck Tao Lin

>>2167534
derp

itt i realise that 95% of people on /lit/ are jaded idiots who actually know nothing about literature, and then i guffaw at how ironic it is when they all hate on pseudo intellectuals and hipsters when it's quite obvious they are those themselves, just three or four layers deeper drenched in vapid bias than the standard, and then i leave and never come back except to read tar because i like to support people trying to get better at the craft, but i am also reminded of how much hate these people will get from those sad, sad multilayered pseudohipsters who are so insecure they must project their fears onto someone trying something they're too scared too, so scared they will fail and suffer the same negativity, and then i realise how truly horrible the human heart can be, and i feel extreme levels of pity for you all because i know you're too stupid to help it, or you've simply been raised wrong or experienced unlucky things and lash out at everything from bitterness and confused, and

>>2167537
What the fuck did I just read

>>2167541
THE TRUTH

>>2167537
Holy crap, that's a long sentence.

>>2167537
Hi Tao, how ya doin'?

>>2167537
don't worry tao lin, I appreciate your work :(. and I think hipster is a dumb stereotype invented by insecure idiots also

>>2167537

...and?

>>2167559
you're a big fat meanie + Psychological Projection

could someone rapidshit this

>>2167570
It's been archived so you can download it from chanarchive in one zip:

http://chanarchive.org/4chan/lit/25876

You might want to wait for OP to finish dumping all the pages before doing so though.

>>2167579
oh I didn't know you could do that, cool

>>2167569

okay. :(

>>2167412
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>>2168244

>>2168247

Jesus Christ, I keep clicking on random pages and it's just the same inane bullshit every time. It's literally brain-numbingly bland.

>>2168248

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>>2168335

I hope you include the index, it's my favorite part of the book

>>2168339

Why Roman numerals dumbass? Computers don't alphabetize correctly past ix

>>2168346

>>2168370
Awww. That's unfortunate. And quite a problem. How can we remedy this? Have you tried blowing me, Anon?

>>2168391
I was wondering, are you capable of communicating as anything other than a total dickweed or are you really only good for posting images as you've demonstrated in this thread?

>>2168370
>>2168391
>>2168418
This is the best discussion

Read Bed before judging Lin, Richard Yates is a poor example of the type of writing that he is capable of.

>>2168370
Why don't you go and download the chan4chan zip? The numbering of the images all comes out in sequential order and you could rename them to less long numbers using Bulk Rename Utility.

>>2168447
chanarchive I mean.

It's the same shit all literature is. Whatever seems smart and cool at the moment. Lately that means being a lazy hipster speaking nonsense, so that's what you faggots will read.

Also, why the fuck would you post 100s of pages manually on 4chan with captcha? That's so fucking dumb.

>>2168464
and why hasn't Tao swooped in and put a stop to this? I'm sure he lurks file-sharing places all day every day, reporting his stuff as soon as it appears.

>>2168464
see
>>2166457

Apparently dudes just an uptight dumbass.

and isn't the image limit for a thread 152? We're at 151 now.

To the anon who was posting this: are you still here?

The only correct answer to this thread was READ THE FUCKING STICKY. All the freaking tools for finding all the goddamn ebook available for free is right there. For fucksake /lit/, this is why /sci/ thinks we're ridicules.

>>2168533
Tao Lin bootlegs are tremendously rare. He's normally very precious about protecting his copyright which is why I'm a bit puzzled that he's let this thread run.

>>2168525
I'm here, but the thread reached its maximum for images.

>>2168625
No problem. I've made a new thread if you want to continue.

>>2168645

>>2168533
They're impossible to find. Which is odd because his fanbase is mainly internet-based people and his stuff is on many ebook stores, so all one would have to do is buy, transfer, and upload... if you know what I mean.