Tao Lin uses stylistic affectations to disguise the fact that his writing is shallow.
--BE
12/26 |
I love you. Please write 2,896 more stories like this.
--TE
11/14 |
"Matt feels like a small lamb levitated twenty feet above a green pasture slowly floating toward a sparkling river not yet polluted by factory farms." Hahaha! I like this story.
--alc
10/16 |
Um, yeah, that sucked (no pun intended). And how could I tell from the description of the foreplay that it was a guy who'd written this, without even having to check the byline?
--LF
09/28 |
o m g. this is so bad. i was googling "rachel ribcage" and i found this hot mess.
--LOL
05/10 |
right now, this is the best story i have ever read in my life.
--ay
03/14 |
I was so horny after reading this piece, I sat in a dark corner and thought about fucking
--RML
03/13 |
i really liked this - it was quite unusual but sexy. thanks!
--FS
03/12 |
Sloppy, monotonous, overwritten, unsexy writing. A good example of how not to write about fucking because in my opinion if this "work" is anything, it's primarily brain fucking, one of the worst kinds of fucking there is and one of the least kinds of fucking the world needs right now: cold, unsensual and disconnected. Your writing continues to get worse and worse with time. This is one of the worst things you've written from what I've read.
--FU
03/10 |
Yes. I edit my writing. I worked about 10-15 hours on this story I think. My 20-page stories I work like 120-150 hours on. I hope I answered your question without abstractions or name-calling but with factual information from concrete reality. Thank you.
--TL
03/10 |
Wow. Tao Lin is like Henry Miller for the McSweeney's Generation. TL, I want to hang out on a park bench in Washington Square Park with you in warm weather and eat those dhosas from the pushcart and make fun of passers-by.
--KenM
03/08 |
do you edit your writing? because this read as if you wrote it, like you write everything, fast on a library computer, without thinking twice and without editing. plus the story was stupid and juvenile. but, yes, it is a great title. so: bad writer, or not bad but not there yet, not yet evolved, still in jack kerouac stage, but great self-promotionalist.
--ohm
03/08 |
i imagined the large monotone asian man reading this to me in the bathroom. i felt a little confused. and frustrated.
--nll
03/08 |
Hello. This is Tao Lin. Thank you for the nice comments. I want to post two small sex stories here. Here they are. "Main Ho's Daughter" At a poetry reading in a cafe near St. Mark's bookstore a large Asian man read poems about being excited for Christmas. His voice was monotone and very quiet. Main Ho's Daughter approached the Asian man outside. She was confused because the man was a large Asian. "Do you go to NYU?" she said. "No," the man said. "I'm in a ska band and I run a record label. Do you want a tour of NYU?" The large Asian man and Main Ho's daughter got in a cab and then had unprotected sex at the large Asian man's apartment. "Ha Jin's Big Day" At Taco Bell Ha Jin looked at his two sons and wife. "Asian," thought Ha Jin. A teenager wearing a bikini with a short, tight, plaid skirt walked in. Ha Jin brought his burrito supreme in front of his face to block his eyeballs so his wife wouldn't see him staring at the teenager, who was caucasian. Ha Jin said, "I'm going to the restroom." "Me too," said Ha Jin's son. Ha Jin said, "I'm going to the bathroom alone." "Are you going to work on poetry a little?" said Ha Jin's son. "Yes," said Ha Jin. In the bathroom Ha Jin held his erect penis and thought, "Hot caucasian Taco Bell ass." He made a small cushion on the sink with almost half a roll of toilet paper and put his penis on the soft pile and then pushed his legs off the floor and applied the pressure of his body onto the sink through his crotch with one hand between his crotch and the cushion and one hand holding the hand drying machine for support until he "came."
--TL
03/08 |
It's great because it shows just what awkward, self-centered, brain-chemical-addicted hairless apes we all are. I applaud the author's misanthropy.
--KenM
03/08 |
That was very cool.Odd,quirky,sexy and it made me happy.I want Rachel.
--j.
03/07 |
I love the title, I was not expecting to read a piece of fiction written like that. I admit I laughed at parts, this is very different and I love it!
--M.N.
03/07 |
this is strangely wonderful -- oddball but at the same time it rings true. i really like this.
--ted
03/07 |
This made me think a) A schizo homeless person must've wrote this. B) Very much like the psycho-babble in American Psycho, only worse. C) The weirdest thing I've ever read on Hooksexup. D)All of the above. If you guessed D, you guessed correctly.
--V.K.
03/07 |
I have never read such a poetic view of sex that wasn't mushy or discomfortable. Thanks.
--rd
03/07 |
I don't know how hot that was but it was funny and sweet.
--Sara
03/07 |
GET OUT OF MY HEAD, YOU WITCH!!!!!eleven!!! Those are my exact thought processes when I have sex. I am so wearing my tin foil hat the next time I do it!!!!!
--KenM
03/07 |
It amused me more than uh, tantalized me, but it was good.
--LV
03/07 |
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