i came across tao lin's "eeeee eee eeee" in a flavorpill post, the most cryptic titles in literature (and what they mean). the description mentioned domino's (their thin crust makes it my favorite of the major pizza chains), bears, and dolphins. the title is the sound that dolphins make. when i explained this to my little brother, he surprisingly did a great dolphin sound. (i wonder if anyone has ever asked for it by dolphin sound at a bookstore.) trying to find more info about it, i amazoned it and discovered that elijah wood is mentioned in it as well. with that cute little hobbit in it, i had to read it.
i might not be cool enough for this book. the book is either super brillant or super bad. i can't sort it out. when i started it, i couldn't focus while reading it because it was all over the place. and andrew was violent. i kinda felt like i was on drugs. but not a good drug trip. but the kind where you come to and realize that you ice picked the family dog or hamster.
after the first half of it, i didn't find it provocative or interesting. but keep on reading because i wanted to see how it all ended. i spent most of the book waiting for elijah wood to show up and once he did, he instantly died. womp, womp.
the book left me without an opinion, i mean i was just confused. i googled to see what others thought of it. and read reviews on amazon. and people were thinking it was brilliant. plus flavorpill did recommend it, so maybe i wasn't cool enough to get it? maybe i should have smoked pot to get it? i don't know.
as i was googling i came across articles theorizing that lin was behind hipster runoff. so my not getting "eeeee eee eeee" made me feel even lamer. not that i want to be a hipster but i thought i was cool enough to get the thinks they like ironically. so i decided to give lin a second chance with his novel, "richard yates", i wanted to read "shoplifting from american apparel" but couldn't find that at the library.
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