L Train Riders Get Hated On

Remember that guy who wrote the creepy sex book for teens. Well, he's back! This time targeting the L train set, and those who love them, with a book of short stories titled I Hate All of You on This L Train (dedicated to fellow author Tao Lin).

To combat rising Metrocard costs (or probably for some other reason), the Brooklyn-based author Richard Grayson is offering up the 94-page book for the price of free if you download it! You'll have to make your own eye-catching cover though, in order to fully express your distaste for fellow straphangers. The bound version is also available for purchase for 7 bucks.

Spoiler Alert! The final story, sharing the title of the book, consists of two words: "Especially you." You just paid $0 to $7 to get burned. [via Cobble Hill Blog]

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By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on July 14, 2009 3:50 PM

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governors_islander

the L train is a swell train

HymietownHero

Read a sample of this, and can say that it is pretty half-assed.

Yes, young white people exhibiting their smug and incomprehensible tastes are obnoxious, always. Now let's just get over it.

gymnasticks

who cares. it's a train people take to get from point a to point b. if hipsters getting on and off bedford and lorimer really piss you off so bad that you need to make some crappy book whining about it, then you're no better than the losers you're writing a lame book about.

Rocknrope

I'll take it over the monkeysuited douchebags on the Uptown 4/5 any day.

schizofriendly

Ahhhhmerica.

yamon

A clean, fairly reliable train - filled with sharply and oddly dressed people who don't smell.......yeah I hate the effing L and all who ride it. When can we get some of the dregs from the 1 or the A (which I rode for years) and improve my subway experience.

Idjits

emilydickinson

Wow, that books only 14 years too late.

FaceFace

describing hipster/wburg jokes as passe is passe.

Rocknrope

As passe as dumping on those commenting on how passe it is.

Kojak

I hate the L train as well. Its like the hipster express.

ak

Yeah, but only for the first four or five stops into Brooklyn, then it services actual working families living out in the industrial park areas. Just because it's a fashion show for half its route doesn't mean it's not serving a legit purpose to deserving people. The "cancel the L train" petition is almost as pointless as the "hate the L train hipsters" mentality.