Shoplifting from American Apparel

First off, the title of the book Shoplifting from American Apparel  by Tao Lin was quite catching. The first thing I thought was who would name their book shoplifting? While reading this book on the go some people would see me reading it and look at the book like it was crazy. But from the title I could understand why someone would shoplifted from American Apparel because they clothes are expensive. However, that still doesn't give them the right to shoplift. 
Reading the part where it actually states who is shoplifting in American Apparel. But first, the characters in this book are weird. Sam talks about doing drugs and but thank god he has his friend Luis to tell him that isn't a good idea. It's like the character Sam he just picks a shirt from American Apparel and walks out like nothing. I thought the way he got caught shoplifting was really fast. It was as if the manager from the American Apparel was watching him the whole time.
“He walked into American Apparel. He looked at things and sometimes touched things. He saw a person holding a book two inches from his face with his eyes over the hop of the book. Sam thought the person was behaving strangely. A few minutes later Sam walked out of American Apparel holding an American Apparel Shirt.” (18)

I found his really related because the movie Rocky V is brought up and it caught my attention because I love all of Rocky  movies. It also talks about myspace which was a social media that was very popular before Facebook. Some parts of the book was funny. Like when Sam was in a jail cell with a guy referenced has the “drunk man”. The drunk was telling a story about hoe he got to jail. What happen in the story was funny to me. “I was taking a shit in Starbucks, and I come out handsome guys hits me”. (23) This book has so many character with different issues and life experiences.

I think Andy Warhol and Sam were the same type of people because Sam expresses his feelings to his friend and Wahol opening his experiences with his readers. The only thing is Warhol is a head guy and not a made up character like Sam. However, both where are very expressive with their writing. Also the author Lin for Shoplifting from American Apparel  novel is expressive. Shoplifting from American Apparel  in the fiction and Andy Warhol writing is nonfiction. Shoplifting from American Apparel  speaks in third point of view and Andy Warhol reading is a first person point of view. I also think Warhol, Sam and Lin were weird but interesting men personality wise and creative wise. This based their they shared with the world.