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!!!, Dec 24 2007
By L. Frens - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am (Paperback)
you can tell when you've been reading tao lin. you look at the world differently, you mood is different. its hard to describe, but its definitely worth reading.
53 of 69 people found the following review helpful
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a little tiny bit racist., Jan 24 2007
By Samuel Cole - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am (Paperback)
ok. well.this book started out a little strong.
i really wasn't expecting that.
i mean JESUS.
an AXE &a CELL PHONE?
too many things. too soon.
but then
it got a little racist
against spacemen.
and that's good
because i hate
spacemen.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Uniquely Enjoyable, April 3 2008
By Yu-han Chao "www.yuhanchao.com" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am (Paperback)
Motifs in _you are a little happier than i am_ include emails, fruit, hamsters, loneliness, beauty, and sadness--what would have been a difficult and problematic combination of objects and abstract terms in the hands of a less talented poet. Tao Lin, however, links these elements effectively with plain, frank language that conveys immediate feelings and observations, often with sympathetic or humorous results.The surprising concerns in these poems range from the personal to what many readers may resonate with. For example, in the poem "thanksgiving," Lin writes:
i feel most comfortable around middle-class japanese people
i know they are all thinking the same things as me
WHY ARE THE LINES SO LONG?
WHY AM I IN NEW JERSEY?
though their faces appear calm
their thoughts are exactly like i just put them
(Lin)
It does not seem to matter here whether the people are middle-class Japanese or middle-class any-other-American-or-foreigner. Lin points out how anyone might feel in this situation: the lines are long, and (more philosophically) why New Jersey? The contrast between calm faces, yelling interior monologue, the poet himself and Japanese people proves humorous when one reads Lin's conclusion to the poem "we just want to get our food/ and eat it/...and go to sleep."
An uniquely enjoyable, highly recommended collection. Tao Lin's other books include Bed, Eeeee Eee Eeee, and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.
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