Eeeee Eee Eeee by Tao Lin
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Book Reviews of Eeeee Eee Eeee
Book Review: yum
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent voice tao's struck here. There's ache and loneliness in it, but it avoids the maudlin. There's also a deft undercurrent of gentle humor. A sad half-smile on the face of the speaker. I thought it brilliant that tao lin made two pages in this book out of fruit rollups. The problem, for me, is that the "edible" pages contain, arguably of course, a very intelligent, and well-researched, argument that Jesus Christ was actually a woman. I have yet to decide if I will eat the fruit rollup pages. This is a wonderful, and possibly tasty, book. Highly recommended--this book is reaching towards the extraordinary. Just my two cents.
Book Review: not violent enough
Summary: 5 Stars
If Tao Lin's name wasn't printed on the cover, I would assume that this book was written by Bret Easton Ellis or Chinua Achebe or maybe even Steve Almond. This is the best book I have ever read.
After selling 500,000 copies of his poetry book, it looks like the Asian Mark Twain has another New York Times Bestseller on his consistently expanding list of New York Times Bestselling books with 'Eeeee Eee Eeee.'
If you really like good books, and like this book, I would also recommend 'The Bible' by God and 'The Sun Also Rises' by Gary Glitter.
Book Review: victory
Summary: 5 Stars
This novel features pizza, anonymity, crippling loneliness, a bear's failed novel, the secret history of Yo La Tengo, and--as has been previously noted--edible pages. Unfortunately, my copy's edible pages tasted of stale eggs and fingernail sauce. I'm not sure what that is, but I recognized it right away. Tao Lin is, actually, a small moon of Jupiter. I don't know why he wrote a book. He should work on establishing water and comfortable gravity. That way we can have a space base.
A great book, but ultimately a failure for human exploration.
Book Review: Review
Summary: 5 Stars
I read Eeeee Eee Eeee after reading Shoplifting from American Apparel and really liked it. The back cover blurb didn't initially impress me, and I might not have picked it up had I not liked Shoplifting so much. But I ended up really enjoying it and reading it straight in one sitting. It's a weird book and kind of treads the line of pretentiousness, but it treads it well, and I wouldn't have picked it up if I didn't think it was going to be weird. I definitely kept reading quotes aloud to my roommates.Book Review: Melancholic-y compelling
Summary: 5 Stars
It's absurd and powerfully written. It left me in a bit of a daze and I was confused as to whether I had actually read this book or not. It touches on those feelings caused by emotional immobility, such as detachment and constant paranoid amusement with bland situations. There are tinges of parasuicidality and destructiveness, yet ultimately the book closes on what appeared to me as acceptance of the absurd, which in the book, could mean, relatively, any event. The dolphins seem endearing. I loved it.