December 2009
9 posts
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todd hasak-lowy (interview) →
Tao asks Todd Hasak-Lowy tough questions about life and depression. The interview looks long on my computer monitor and requires several turns of the scroll wheel to see in entirety and I think I was “intimidated” by this length. That is the reason it took me so long to write this “review.” I still haven’t read all the comments actually because of my exhaustion at...
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lorrie moore (again) →
Tao explains why Lorrie Moore inspires him in a very inspiring fashion. Indeed, I feel quite inspired to read Lorrie Moore and to sell her products on Amazon using my Amazon affiliate code. I also feel an overwhelming desire to read more heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com as it will likely inspire me to accomplish things that Tao has and I haven’t but probably should have by now.
Reading about...
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the task of this translator by todd hasak-lowy →
Tao “writes” to his great appreciation for Todd Hasak-Lowy’s book The Task of This Translator in this entry, noting that it is so “good” that it transcends “reviewing.” I think this book inspired Tao a great deal and likely he tried to mimic some of Todd Hasak-Lowy’s successes in writing stories and transcending criticism. Probably I should aspire to...
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housekeeping →
I thought Tao was going to tell a funny story about a bad housekeeping experience he had while on a reading tour, but instead he wrote some things about a book called Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson. Didn’t see that coming, probably something I should keep in mind for my list of things to do that Tao has and I haven’t but should’ve. Surprises are the spice of life, or...
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is your book autobiographical? →
I’m not quite sure what this entry is about, so let’s skip to the comments.
Evidence of Tao’s burgeoning readership is plainly sighted as a person called billikenbluff compliments Tao’s “refreshing disregard” of punctuation and another person called Christine seeks to discover the true identity of a then-anonymous Tao. It seems that I should consider an equally...
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lorrie moore →
Tao “reviews” some of Lorrie Moore’s books in this blog entry. I put the word “reviews” in quotations not to connotate some disconnection from the cliché concept of reviewing things on a blog, but rather because you can hardly call these “reviews” “reviews.” In Tao’s defense, he states at the outset that he is simply going to type about...
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good morning, midnight by jean rhys →
I think this entry is pretty boring. Tao talks about the book Good Morning, Midnight and defends the author against hypothetical charges that it is self-indulgent. Tao seems to think that people will not “get” the book and he does not “get” that. It is Tao’s belief that being sad in Paris is superior to doing drugs or violence. That seems true. Tao’s defense of...
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the easter parade by richard yates →
I think Tao is angry that Richard Yates and Daniel Alacorn make up characters based on their imagination instead of just writing about themselves. At the end, Tao starts talking about relativism and even says some things about using correct context. He still talks about that today like when he tells a four-year old that his favorite color is red. In the comments, some people called Pete and Sam...
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What is this thing?
I think Tao Lin once did something in the course of many years “blogging” and writing at what was once The Reader of Depressing Books and is now heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com that I should have probably “done by now” but haven’t. The list of things that I should have done does not include the following:
Learned usage of quotations
Learned usage of propoganda
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