Eeeee Eee Eeee
by Tao Lin
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Author: Tao LinEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-15
ISBN: 1933633255
Number of pages: 211
Publisher: Melville House
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Book Review: A bit overwhelming, but good
Summary: 3 Stars
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.
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