What do you think of his reading list?
https://www.taolin.us/books
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What do you think of his reading list?
What do you think of his reading list?
https://www.taolin.us/books
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Not even clicking your link, Tao, to know every book you listed is just from some IQfy chart
Not true, frick off homosexual
Basically no Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Nabokov, Joyce or such classical authors since 2014 but
>Star Trek: First Contact (1996) by John Vornholt
>Fuccboi by Sean Thor Conroe
>Alien Abduction of the Wyoming Hunter (2017) by Margery Higdon
>The Age of Autism
Also, why does he read Who We’re Reading When We’re Reading Murakami (2020) by David Karashima but not a single book by Murakami himself? Lmao
Because he read it to understand who he would be reading and found the answer unappealing?
>not a single book by Murakami himself
Because he doesn't want to embarass himself. Admitting you read Murakami is like stapling a dildo to your head.
>How did a loner destined for a niche domestic audience become one of the most famous writers alive? David Karashima synthesizes research, correspondence, and interviews with dozens of individuals—including Murakami himself—to examine how countless behind-the-scenes choices over the course of many years worked to build an internationally celebrated author's persona and oeuvre.
He probably hasn't read this for his interest in Murakami, lol
You're an npc if you see someone doesn't drone the top 100 lit chart then seethe about it
It's not about letting someone tell you what to read, but artists generally have felt the need to study their most capable predecesors and to refresh their memory of what greatness looks like. I'm not really seeing it in this list. He can read whatever he wants but his last novel after 8 years seems stylistically quite inferior to Taipei and looking at this list it doesn't seem all that surprising.
>The Art of You: The Essential Guidebook for Reclaiming Your Creativity (2023) by James McCrae
kinda KEK
He should have tried not frying his brain with gay drugs.
The psychological subtext of this list is so obvious. He's actively avoiding authors who are more successful than him. Not a single Pynchon, DeLillo, Roth, McCarthy, Franzen etc. His main interest is writing autofiction and yet not a single Knausgard is on the list? That makes no sense. That's like being a physicist and never looking up Einstein. How can you not be curious to see what the most acclaimed proponent of autofiction is doing when that's your main interest? Instead he reads Star Trek: First Contact. Ironically the one canonized author he seems to accept is Richard Yates, who was quite unsuccessful in his life. It just seems a bit silly. Like, why accept to operate according to such transparently simpistic psychological laws? It can't be that hard to accept that there are people more successful in the hierarchy and that this often enough that doesn't even express true value.
Only a simp would mention names and books that everybody already knows.
Tao is the Way. He knows what he's doing, more than you will in three hundred years of reincarnation.
That's your response? You managed to use a buzzword and then claim that he's better than the one who criticized his reading list. Idk, seems a bit braindead. What you might not comprehend is that I like him and his books and just think that he's hurting himself by limiting his reading material according to a very systematic pattern. What an author reads is of great importance to his writing and in this case the list indicates a dubious process of selection.
top kek
but what's up with 4chonk celebs going full autistic or schizo? what this weird obsessions with fringe nutrition and theories?
wlecome to 2023
mental abnormalities is the norm
books that seem interesting:
>*In Search of Chopin (1951) by Alfred Cortot
>The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor (2013) by Gerald H. Pollack
>How Not to have a nice day (2023) by Clancy Martin
>*Why We Sleep (2017) by Matthew Walker
his obsession with health and alternative medicine is stupid though. still, he has read more books than i have this year (currently at 22)
The only reason he would make a list like this is to show off how much he's read.
And he's doing that because he's preoccupied with what other people think of him because he lacks internal strength.
There is no other reason.
It is probably the opposite, he is probably getting paid to shill those things.
That's unlikely. I doubt this website gets nearly enough traffic to justify paying for a place on this list. Who'd pay it anyway, the publishers? Why would they ever choose this marketing channel over tried and true ones?
Plus, on the offchance that what you say is true and it is a big list of shilled books, it wouldn't be "the opposite" of what I said in any way, shape or form.
You said that there is no other reason than showing off, but if he were showing off. Certain things come off as somewhat weird. Like
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Fans want to know what their favorite author is reading. If Tao Lin wanted to show off his whole list would be a IQfy chart.
How is the trust fund holding up, Tao?
Taipei aged poorly, just like the millenials it catered to 🙂
i just read it and thought the opposite. A decade later and the passages about how people use their phones, Twitter and Wikipedia could've been written today. And that's just the surface level aspect of it, there's obviously much more going on that's still relevant
>Fate Stay/Night (2004) by TYPE-MOON
yo wtf??
>crushing 80 books a year
>tfw only reading 3-4 the past decade
I have to get off my phone Jesus Christ