>Tao Lin What does /lit/ think of this author? Is he worth

Quite mediocre, repetitive, boring. If you want to read about rich kids being bored on drugs go for it (Bret Easton-Ellis has the same bored crap, as is Ryu Murakami)

A modern and recent novel I very much enjoyed was HHhH from Laurent Binet. It's half a historical novel on the assassination of Heydrich by Czechs and Slovaks, and half it's the author's fight with history

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>goodreads rating

He was a promising writer in 2009. Now he's just mediocre.

>>9529172
Lol the people who got forced to read that book are not the same people reading Tao lin. I got meme'd into reading him and he's absolute dogshit. DUDE DRUGS LMAO

>>9529155
>What does /lit/ think of this author

go to bed tao

Do you think he gets pissed off when he sees us talk shit about him or do you think he just writes us off "these idiots don't understand me or I don't write books for these idiots" lol

>>9529155
Shut up, Tao. We don't do drugs. We are nerds.

>>9529155
Man Tao you really need to stop shilling so hard.

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Well then go back to meme hacks like DFW, Pynchon and Joyce. I'll move to reddit where people have actual taste.

>>9529716
I think he's too drugged out/depressed to care at this point, along with all those other "aspergers lit" writers.

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You can have him sprawling on a pin by calling him the Millennial Bret Easton Ellis.

Tai Pei is not worth reading unless you're into shit like the HBO show Girls and fashionable ennui, which makes you a fag in my mind but w/e

>>9529155
I'd say the reviewers of Goodreads were being generous. Taipei, the best think he's ever written, deserves no more than three stars.

>>9530932
I want to add to this by saying B.E.E. writes more interesting and entertaining books with more depth than what I've encountered from Tao Lin.