Has anyone here read this? Thoughts?

No. What's it about? The relationship between the title and author is admittedly a bit clever. I've been to Taipei for three days, and I wonder what sort of bullshit this book has to say about Taipei (if it's not employing it metaphorically).

Yes. A fairly banal summation of post-modern boredom.

>>10030932
Read bed. It was shit. Edgy teenage garbage.

>>10030932
not as good as richard yates
his style changed drastically

>>10030932
Op here. Personally I really liked it, although I can see why some people would consider it too "nothing matters xD" edgelord-y and pretentious. I thought it was a pretty accurate take on life in the postmodern world. Anyone have a recommendation for a similar book?

>>10030932
My thoughts are go to bed Tao

I think it'll age well. People came in with baggage when it first came out. The dealbreakers actually felt like risks pulled off, on second reading.

>>10033227
Kek

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>tfw couldn't get through the first few pages

Has some of the dullest prose I've ever encountered. Are all of his works written like this one?

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>>10030932
not necessarily a great work, but a huge leap forward for tao as a writer (compared to his awkward whale poems and silly drawings of animals). he's someone i sincerely look forward to reading more of in the future. he seems to have left irony behind him and is staggering into uncharted territory. he's utterly surpassed his nyc hipster cronies and become something dangerous, weird, and interesting.

at the very least it succeeds as a snapshot of a moment in time at a particular place in a particular subset of society

>>10030936
taipei is actually a central plot point in the novel, so its not just a cool name