FREE SHOPLIFTING FROM AMERICAN APPAREL PDF Tao Lin | 103 pages | 08 Oct 2009 | Melville House Publishing | 9781933633787 | English | Brooklyn, United States Shoplifting from American Apparel » Melville House Books Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Get A Shoplifting from American Apparel. Paperbackpages. Published September 15th by Melville House first published July 1st More Details Shoplifting from American Apparel Title. Other Editions 8. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Shoplifting from American Apparelplease sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Shoplifting from American Apparel. Shoplifting from American Apparel with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Shoplifting from American Apparel. Jul 30, Lisa added it. View all 5 comments. May 09, Anita Dalton rated it did not like it Shelves: books-we-ownnon-fiction Shoplifting from American Apparel, fiction Shoplifting from American Apparel, autobiographybullshit-in-paper-form. Look, people have shit on those who write for a new zeitgeist pretty much since publishing evolved from the Gutenberg Press to a more accessible means of conveying ideas. Truman Capote demeaned Kerouac. Half the people I know would like to kill Holden Caulfield if he were a real human. I can tell you with no small amount of emphatic anger that this is not that, a woman long in her tooth clutching pearls at the antics of These Kids Today. This book is such an egregious piece of shit hiding behind what many consider to be hipster culture that it sickens me that people got taken in by it. To paraphrase the late, great Dorothy Parker, this not a book to be tossed aside — it is a book to be thrown with great force, preferably at a picture of Tao Lin that one has printed out from the Web and taped to a bean bag chair. You can read my entire review here. View all 10 Shoplifting from American Apparel. Oct 22, Lee Klein rated it really liked it Shelves: potential- conflict-of-interest. In recognition of Tao Lin's mention of this review on HTMLgiantI've decided to temporarily give his novella an additional 'star,' although I won't change the original review 'below': My facial expression was almost neutral after I finished this book, which was Shoplifting from American Apparel, calm, short, flat, and simple. I'm not the target demographic for this book. I don't really get excited about nearly identical disembodied proper nouns doing not much and talking about not much in an intentionally undescribed In recognition of Tao Lin's mention of this review on HTMLgiantI've decided to temporarily give his novella an additional 'star,' although I won't change the original review 'below': My facial expression was almost neutral after I finished this book, which was controlled, calm, short, flat, and simple. I don't really get excited about nearly identical disembodied Shoplifting from American Apparel nouns Shoplifting from American Apparel not much and Shoplifting from American Apparel about not Shoplifting from American Apparel in an intentionally undescribed "New York City. Reading this has made me feel sleepy and empty. Maybe I should buy a Synergy? I wanted to laugh but I didn't even smile -- I think that was the point, though I'd say that's probably a pretty "fucked" point for a book "fucked" is a keyword in this book. I liked how he liked all the "fucked" people in Atlantic Ciy and how they made him feel happy and like he belonged. It's probably fun to write like Tao. Writing like that Shoplifting from American Apparel make me feel like most of my major organs had been removed, like I too were fucked, I guess. I rounded up when I chose a star and felt happier. I like Tao's blogs and online stunts. I feel like maybe this book is an extension of those activities, like all his online stuff is the real art and the book is an empty physical product he somehow compels you to purchase? I wonder what he'll write about when he's older? He's Is that still young? View Shoplifting from American Apparel 6 comments. Apr 09, christa rated it did not like it. Of all the vapid crap in all the vapid world over, this is the vapid-est. I have not been able to get that word out of my head -- vapid! But I still bought it because I wanted to be able to Of all the vapid Shoplifting from American Apparel in all the vapid world over, this is the vapid-est. But I still bought it because I wanted to be able to loathe something physical. And I wanted to finish it, so I would have more reasons to not like it. Shoplifting from American Apparel on me: Lin profits from my wrath. These are gripping back-and-forths that frequent digress into "I'm so fucked. This entire story? Twitter stream? What passes as witty conversations seem to be of the "had to be there" variety. Sam is horseshit at shoplifting, the two times he does it he lands in the clink. Friends enter and exit scenes and new ones replace them but act exactly the same. All the while, Sam has some sort of cult following of people who actually want to hear him read his words in public and talk about being fans of his work. Then things get super fun on a trip to Florida where everyone gets crazy and does antics. There is part of me that hopes this book is some sort of elaborate bit of social satire. Like maybe, just maybe Lin is making a statement about blind worship, consumerism, and herd mentalities. Maybe Lin is sitting at home using Hotmail and Bing, craving gas station coffee and Olive Garden, laughing at his friend -- the one who took blurbs from the reviews of people who didn't like this book and tried to refute their claims. I'm not convinced Lin wouldn't do this: he's allegedly given readings where he repeats the same sentence over and over and over; he papered NYC with Britney Spears stickers. Why not write a blase novella, and then mock people who like it in the name of art? Don't get me wrong -- even if that is what's going on here, I'd still hate it. Strip these two tales, and they are Shoplifting from American Apparel concepts: somethings wandering here and there, leaving a trail of pop culture bread crumbs. Yet Ellis doesn't inspire ire. He makes me giddy. Nostalgia is a better brand of vapid. I prefer bored twits from the 80s to bored twits from the s. This book actually made me mad, and then more mad because I let it make me mad. And this book made me really glad that I don't have any friends younger than It also made me hate the Internet, cult followings, bloggers, and vegans, readers, and emo anything. View all 11 comments. Oct 19, Matthieu rated it it was ok Recommended to Matthieu by: Crls. View all 9 comments. Apr 11, David Schaafsma rated it Shoplifting from American Apparel was ok Shelves: surrealism-dada-absurdauto-bio- memoirfictionst-century. I read this because I have liked Kafka and Camus and have heard this is a new century hipster version of existentialist angst and alienation. It feels more like arrogance than alienation, actually. Does it capture the "current zeitgeist" in some way? Like Kerouac with the Beat generation? I doubt it. I like the title a lot! So funny that whatever comes out of our heads is worth writing Shoplifting from American Apparel, so this is, like, ironic! It's a commentary on our self-absorbed times! Shoplifting From American Apparel Tuesday, May 21, That's right. The film Shoplifting from American Apparel available to download and remix at the new website. Posted by Pirooz M. Premiere went real well in LA! We soldout and had some great performances from Steve Roggenbuck and Mira Gonzalez. Thank you to everyone for making all this possible. Who would have thought an independent film would be able to premiere in six cities and have so much fun doing it! Thank you!! Six premieres, Six Shoplifting from American Apparel. Buy your seat or the screenings will not happen! Tickets are currently being sold at www. Click city below to buy tickets!! 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