Anybody else hyped for Tao Lin's new novel "Leave Society"?
>"Scheduled for released in 2017, Leave Society is expected to serve as the internet-savvy author's manifesto about our times, covering everything from the nature of anonymous online communities to the relationship between hallucinogens and Virtual Reality. In our interview with Lin, the author explained how "the internet, for me, encourages detachment from society, from human relationships, and from any stable notion of the self". Through the eyes of protagonist Clarke, an autistic programmer working for a sinister Silicon Valley start-up, we witness a landscape of empty sidewalks, dilapidated shopping malls, and vast server rooms which ironically serve as Clarke's only refuge from the world. While the Millennial generation may not yet have announced its representative in the literary world, in his latest novel Tao Lin declares himself as the best candidate for the job."
I like the idea desu. The vapidity of modern life, as a subject, is surprisingly neglected by modern authors - probably because they don't realize how inane modern life has become.
Unfortunately, I don't think Tao Lin can do justice to it. He's annoyingly mediocre.
Carson Bennett
>While the Millennial generation may not yet have announced its representative in the literary world, in his latest novel Tao Lin declares himself as the best candidate for the job." HAHAHA fucking millennials thank God I'm not one of (You).
Dylan Scott
You pushed the boat out too far with autistic programmer.
Adrian Myers
But user
Literally every dull pomo novel of the past hundred years has been about the "vapidity of modern life"
Levi Long
Pretty good excerpt tbqh
Evan Gutierrez
>Clarke ate two xanax
Stopped reading there. Otherwise p. good.
Owen Hill
Holy....I want more.
John Brown
bump
Sebastian Carter
That blurb sounds like satire. But it's not, is it? t. Too old to be here
Levi Ortiz
My eyes are bleeding
Eli Mitchell
cant wait
Colton Wood
Fuck off Tao
Adam Russell
9/10 bait
Gabriel Johnson
I could write better than this shite and I am a STEMfag
Ryder Hughes
>the internet for me
>for me
Someone should make a book on how the internet makes you as retarded as Tao II over here.
Just more over emotional and watered down world-view shit about something along the lines of what I imagine he describes as "Life and stuff".
The fact that he calls himself the "candidate for the job" for one ousts him as a pussy for not saying "Man" and secondly ousts him as the kind of average narcissistic hipster millennial artist obsessed with accomplishment to his peers and image within society rather than his art himself.
This dude is not writing from experience either. He just saw Ullillia and the Temple OS guy and decided to make a book of it cuz it was COOOL. I doubt he will ever understand that people who slave over the internet are sometimes already mentally damaged and use the internet as a coping mechanism from being overwhelmed by their mental illness. I doubt this chink has even spent half the time on the internet as the kind of people he's writing about.
Asher Gomez
I don't want to dismiss other books on the subject but if you don't consider My Twisted World to be the pinnacle of web 2.0 generation literature then you are a fucking pseud.
Jackson Hill
Ever read one of those modernist novels user?
Jacob Richardson
>saw Ullillia and the Temple OS guy
Not Tao, but I am actually writing a novel which includes the Temple OS guy as a reference.
Lincoln Perry
does anyone else think this sounds very Julius Evola "Revolt against the modern world!"?
Jace Taylor
Summarize that book in three lines of greentext please?
Cameron Lewis
>be user >live in modern world >revolt
Brody Butler
>>"Scheduled for released in 2017, Leave Society is expected to serve as the internet-savvy author's manifesto about our times, covering everything from the nature of anonymous online communities to the relationship between hallucinogens and Virtual Reality. In our interview with Lin, the author explained how "the internet, for me, encourages detachment from society, from human relationships, and from any stable notion of the self". Through the eyes of protagonist Clarke, an autistic programmer working for a sinister Silicon Valley start-up, we witness a landscape of empty sidewalks, dilapidated shopping malls, and vast server rooms which ironically serve as Clarke's only refuge from the world. While the Millennial generation may not yet have announced its representative in the literary world, in his latest novel Tao Lin declares himself as the best candidate for the job." so basically it's IJ, but repackaged and dumbed down into a song of a bird that has come to love it's cage; into the kind of rebellion against the Matrix that only could have come from inside the Matrix? I'll "probably" pass on this one
Mason Baker
Is it cause you are all jealous of Tao's success? "I can write better than this guy. Why can he be famous and i can't? No, this guys a joke." Pretty pathetic Desu senpais
Adrian Torres
You're here aren't you? A shithole anonymous image board where everyone is a contrarian for sake of being contrarian. Whether you like it or not, he's a representative of us. When history looks back and ask what the fuck was this all about, his voice will be taken as our voice unless we can provide someone else. Who will be that someone else?
Thomas Richardson
>, covering everything from the nature of anonymous online communities to the relationship between hallucinogens and Virtual Reality
Great, so it's basically an episode of the joe rogan podcast, but in book form.
I never read any of this guy's shit, because it sounds pretty boring and well covered by other means.
Thomas Cook
Jealous much that he will have writtem the novel you always wanted to write?
Gabriel Miller
>be soul aristocrat >meditate on mankind's history >kaliyuga.jpg
Charles Garcia
your marketing is getting really bad tao and it was already shit, this is embarassing
Bentley Gomez
so is tao but he keeps posting here, he's in his 30s and still acting like the literally trust fund nyu student he was over 10 years ago ie pathetic and dull wow really really embarrassing for you, no not everyone is a prescription drug addict sex criminal rich boy whose books don't sell and he missed his window, but he keeps trucking on with the voice of his generation shtick when really no one can relate to being able to not do anything all day bc most people's dads didn't invent crest white strips...literally the even lesser male lena dunham
Justin Edwards
Fuck off Tao
Elijah Allen
doesn't that make him the perfect author for it then?
Robert Jenkins
why is he often associated with mira gonzalez?
Hudson Smith
bc they put out a book together an went on a pathetic press tour together and are "friends"
tao etc: go back to your barbiturate nap/jail
Ethan Bailey
ITT people who don't like Tao Lin are easy to trick
Andrew Young
>web 2.0 That's a nonsense buzzword.
Jordan Bennett
Does it have a chapter on seducing and assaulting trannies?
Jackson Wood
GO TO BED TAO O
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Zachary Stewart
Sounds like fucking shit tbqh
I seriously hope you faggots don't like this chink
Caleb Cooper
It's neglected because books about vapidity are boring and empty as fuck. You don't get any points for making dogshit just because it's "ironic" or "commenting on postmodern capitalism" or someshit
Gavin Sullivan
is he redpilled tho
Logan Butler
no I'm not hyped at all. so far he's done nothing to make me care about him. his best work is selected tweets.
Robert Smith
>You're here aren't you? A shithole anonymous image board where everyone is a contrarian for sake of being contrarian. Whether you like it or not, he's a representative of us. When history looks back and ask what the fuck was this all about, his voice will be taken as our voice unless we can provide someone else. Who will be that someone else? Me.
Lucas Williams
Absolute garbage. Can someone else just take the fucking idea and beat him to the punch? Hell, can we just write it communally in two weeks and publish it before the year is over? It's such a waste of a neat idea
Carson Bell
Tao is fantastic. Veeky Forums hasn't been as wrong about anybody as it has been about Tao. Not at all to be confused with some hipster-bullshit. Tao is heartfelt, dreary, funny and autistic. His prose is simply excellent. As always i recommend Michael Silverblatts discussion with Tao regarding Taipei from KCRW's Bookworm. Silverblatt is god-tier, and his reading of Taipei would maybe show some of the people here the light, as to what makes Taipei a real gem.
Tao is unironically, my favourite 21st century writer (meaning writers who have started writing in the 21st century). Favourite writers are Mann, Nietzsche, Mishima, Schiller, just so that you can place me in some corner.
David Rodriguez
i have placed you in the reddit corner
Nicholas Martin
hi tao
Isaac Williams
>neat idea If you think his idea is anything new you need to read more books
Thomas Johnson
>Tao Lin next to Nietzsche o i am laffin
John Ortiz
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Kayden Taylor
Joyce destroyed this idea a hundred years ago
Try harder
William Howard
>I like the idea desu. The vapidity of modern life, as a subject, is surprisingly neglected by modern authors - probably because they don't realize how inane modern life has become.
Tao is about the exact opposite though. My god are people on Veeky Forums terrible readers.
Kayden Anderson
god you must not read or pay attention to pop culture from o the last 100 years at the very least, it's the most boring overtrodden banal idea, go watch american beauty or something if you want something at your same um intellectual level
Jason Kelly
...you guys all know the link and the "excerpt" are just fabricated, right...?
........right.......? you guys all know "leave society" is actually on filial relationships, right...
did anybody even bother to click... on the link........
Cooper Cook
no, bc no one cares about tao
Aiden Bell
10/10, +1 for ripping off DFW, ripping off Pynchon. This gives me that good ol' Veeky Forums feeling
Isaac Ortiz
ok tao
Ethan Perez
dude this guy is old hes on another plane of being altogether lmao
Josiah Campbell
wow this is really bad
is this flat meaningless explanatory imagery supposed to be ironic?
it just has that "i have no idea about my subject matter" feel to it.
is this proof that asian people are soulless rice calculators that cannot make art?