Taipei | 
pickI loved this. It‘s extremely readable yet uncannily intellectual. Captures attitudes and styles/trains of thought I‘ve never seen before.
It‘s also somehow emotional…I cared about what was going to happen to the characters. I was totally invested in the story, as I generally appreciate unusual stuff like this, the type of stuff that can easily be off-putting to others.
A FB friend visited Taiwan and found book vending machines at the station.
Upset that work this month has completely monopolized the brain space that I would be using to read and participate in the photo challenges...I need a #vacation bad! But I did think of this one that features a memorable sequence in a McDonald's in Taiwan that occurs while the MC is visiting from the U.S. with his new girlfriend on Christmas vacation. More drugs involved than most holiday breaks I would guess.. #decdays @Cinfhen
Taipei features one of the most #UnlikeableCharacters I've ever encountered (the narrator/protagonist whose name I forgeg). That said, I think the author is pretty unlikeable too. #AprilBookShowers
Day 4 of #FeistyFeb: #changedyourmindabout.
I have definitely changed my mind about Tao Lin--in my early 20s, I read and loved Bed, Eeee Eee Eeee, and Richard Yates. When I read Taipei a few years ago, I found Lin to be self-indulgent, self-involved, and the book itself was just derivative of his earlier work. I grew up, but Lin (and his writing) did not.
I felt like it was cheating to just take a picture of my entire collection of Haruki Murakami for #booksetinasia so I included Tao Lin's novel, which is set in both in NYC and Taipei (duh). Also, I forgot to include Wind/Pinball because it's hanging out on my #tbr shelf. #somethingforsept #somethingforseptember #septphotochallenge #septemberphotochallenge
