Eeeee Eee Eeee Paperback – May 15, 2007

before finally getting to reading this one i read all of tao's other books (except bed which i still havent read), and this is totally my favorite thing that hes done. i think you can definitely classify this book as Lynchian (meaning the juxtaposition of banal reality with surreal dream-like stuff).this book affected me a lot. most of the time to laughter but also at one point to tears.ill describe the time when it almost moved me to tearsi was in the library in encinitas and i was at the chapter where ellen is in the car with her mom and her mom is trying to bond with ellen and ellen is working her brain hard to find reasons to think that everything is stupid. it felt like real life, like how my real life is, and it made me sad about how ive been with my mother. but the almost-tears came in the next chapter where ellens mother is about to die in a plane crash and tao describes her mothers confrontation with reality and how she felt it was easier to watch it from a distance (metaphorically), easier to accept death. and man, that made me feel so sad. i sat there shaking my head and i wanted to communicate with the other people reading around me about it but i didnt.great job on this one tao, its really something special this book

I recently reread *dolphin noises* for a book report for a 200-level literature class at the community college I attend. Everyone thought talking animals were funny, but then I got in trouble for calling the "plot" "lame."Before then, I didn't know "cripples" were referred to as "lame." My professor probably would have taken points off. He didn't.During my presentation, I said stuff like "generational malaise" and "inanity hyper-magnified."My classmates looked at me oddly throughout, but clapped politely at the end of the four minutes and 23 seconds I talked.Some kid with a nose tried to give me a high-five. He said that the talking dolphins sold him on the book. I wanted to punch him in his nose but didn't because of social pressure and weakness of character.Overall, I will recommend this book to people who express interest in(following is edited for clarity) those terms I referred to in my presentation. There is a heightened sense of tagged phrases (i.e. depression, existentialism, loneliness, etc) through Tao Lin's explicit, minimalistic prose. By reducing the constituent pathos into obvious statements of (tagged phrases), his characters' doldrums pervade the quaint piece of fiction through what seems to be a concentrate of seeming triviality. Nevertheless, an astute reader, tuned to a certain twenty-something wavelength, will be moved by Tao Lin's *dolphin noises.*Thanks to the [redacted]for promises of [redacted]in the form of [redacted] in return for this [redacted].

Immediately upon finishing "Shoplifting From American Apparel" I started reading "Eeeee Eee Eeee". I found "Eeeee Eee Eeee" to be quite similar to "Shoplifting..." stylistically, but definitely more fitting for a novel, rather than the shorter novella of "Shoplifting..."Lin plays with themes throughout the book of boredom, regret, lonliness, depression and general apathy and mixes them with dreamlike states of talking animals, an alien, the President, a few actors and other non-sequitors to propel the action through to the end. There is a general feeling of traveling through a dream-like state present throughout.The beginning of the book, in my opinion, was quite confusing, as ideas were introduced and then piled onto each other immediately. There are a few chapters in the beginning that consist of pages upon pages of non-sequitors and constantly shifting themes, locations and conversations. Thankfully, by the middle there is a little bit more of a cohesive character to the novel. At the very end things really start to take shape as some philosophical discussions develop from the President, who is an alien that is just as fed up and hopeless about life as the rest of the characters in the book.Overall I really enjoyed this book and found that once I began to read it I would plow through 70 or 100 pages in one sitting. I am definitely going to read it again, as I imagine that the dense nature of the ideas that are layered on top of each other would hold up to a 2nd or 3rd reading.

I picked an arbitrary title to echo the seemingly arbitrary nature of the book--which echoed life, I suppose, and I'm not trying to say that in a pretentious, hipster, snarky sort of way. I say that because those three adjectives appear to describe the majority of Tao Lin's readers, and more importantly, the people who are reviewing this book on amazon.Why we can't help but compare Tao Lin's style with Miranda July's is something I don't quite understand. I like them both in different ways. Perhaps they even belong to that new, unnamed genre that circles above our heads when we read exciting text that challenges modern notions of storytelling and literature.I guess that's not what you're hear to learn. I liked this book, it was quite a crazy ride that I wanted to stop many times, but for some reason it hooked me, even with its foreign writing style, and so I rode it, I rode that goddamn ride to the very end, and I'm glad I did.

Not enough can be said about Tao Lins writing. its unapologetic, unless its to himself. He seems to break the fourth wall by just being. If your a sad person, who likes whity comedic sadness, this is right up in your brain space. He is the new STYLE. He is meta, he is TMI, he is brutally honest about his happiness and unhappiness for the world. He is forgiving, but only if you have something to offer. If you don't, you are a road cone, a sticky penny in your cars change holder, the new bird POOP on your car after a car wash (ISNT that ALANIS MORISSETTE) . He is YOUR awakening, he is 6 x10mg addys deep drinking tea, smoking reefers. He will open your eyes to things that you see, but his light and scope, or peripheral, is unmatched by writers his age. ALL of his books are just what you want and don't, polite unhappiness, and angry happiness.

Product came earlier than expected and in great condition, thanks

Tao Lin ist der Satzbaumeister meiner Generation. Ich habe die Lektüre genossen und dann das Buch meiner Freundin geschenkt. Sie mochte es nicht. Jetzt ist sie meine Ex-Freundin.

If you liked Catch 22 by Joseph Heller there's a good chance you'll laugh out loud with this book.Anyone taking a dump on it is not reading it right or doesnt have an absurd sense of humour. Highly recommended

The strangest book I have ever read. A marmite book. I loved it!Striking cover art. Will read his other work.

Von vielen gelobt, von vielen gehasst. Anfangs war es schwer, unvoreingenommen an das Buch heranzugehen.Nachdem ich jedoch andere Meinung hinter mir gelassen habe, stellte sich heraus, dass das Buch eine recht interessante Leseerfahrung hergibt.Der (von vielen "minimalistisch" genannte) Schreibstil erzählt die Geschichte auf eine Weise, die den Leser dazu bringt die Geschehnisse nochmal in Gedanken zu reflektieren, was mir gefallen hat.Auch der Handlungsstrang an sich hat eine Eigenart, die anfangs willkürlich erscheint, aber dennoch die Idee des Buches besser verständlich macht.Diese "Idee" ist zwar sehr interessant, aber auch nichts Spektakuläres."Eeeee Eee Eeee" ist ganz klar kein Buch für jedermann. Wenn man aber ein Gefühl für die Eindrücke hat, die von Tao Lin geschildert werden, kann einem das Buch sehr gut gefallen.