Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions
by Christian Lander
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Author: Christian LanderEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-07-01
ISBN: 0812979915
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Book Reviews of Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions
Book Review: Brutally funny, but painfully psychoanalytic
Summary: 3 Stars
No doubt, there are laugh-out-louds a plenty throughout this book. Covering 150 topic fetishes of 'white' people, the author provides a hilarious lampooning of cultural pretensions and intellectual facades. I suspect the title must originally have been 'Stuff Liberal White Americans Like', but the editorial staff must have intervened. This is not really a portrait of anyone east of London. Rather, it's a categorical dissection of a particular North American quest for social cachet and a sense of 'rootedness'. Japan. Foreign books. Imported coffee. And the mannerisms of the uptight and opinionated. Standing still at concerts. Pretending to read the 'New Yorker'. Thinking about volunteering. No doubt, the author's eye is keen and the wit sharp. And the pictures of him actually doing 'the stuff' are amusing captions.
But then I read the back bio which announced his status as a PhD dropout. And then I understood where some of the undercurrent of bile is coming from. This is actually an invective against higher education and the orbit of wannabes surrounding it. At this point, the book's real purpose becomes clear: a painful self-examination, projected forward, to church out a publication contract. And it worked. A New York Times bestseller no less. The nerd's ultimate revenge.
Suitable for airplanes and waits in the dentist's office. It's as funny as Sedaris, without the undercurrent of authentic insight. Destined to populate the 0.99c bin of second-hand book shops all over. But funny. Definitely funny. If you have a friend from Korea studying ESL in Seattle or somewhere, give it to him/her and claim that it's a study of the American psyche.
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They love nothing better than sipping free-trade gourmet coffee, leafing through the Sunday New York Times, and listening to David Sedaris on NPR (ideally all at the same time). Apple products, indie music, food co-ops, and vintage T-shirts make them weak in the knees.They believe they're unique, yet somehow they're all exactly the same, talking about how they "get" Sarah Silverman's "subversive" comedy and Wes Anderson's "droll" films. They're also down with diversity and up on all the best microbrews, breakfast spots, foreign cinema, and authentic sushi. They're organic, ironic, and do not own TVs.
You know who they are: They're white people. And they're here, and you're gonna have to deal. Fortunately, here's a book that investigates, explains, and offers advice for finding social success with the Caucasian persuasion. So kick back on your IKEA couch and lose yourself in the ultimate guide to the unbearable whiteness of being.
Praise for STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE:
"The best of a hilarious Web site: an uncannily accurate catalog of dead-on predilections. The Criterion Collection of classic films? Haircuts with bangs? Expensive fruit juice? 'Blonde on Blonde' on the iPod? The author knows who reads The New Yorker and who wears plaid."
-Janet Maslin's summer picks, CBS.com
"The author of "Stuff White People Like" skewers the sacred cows of lefty Caucasian culture, from the Prius to David Sedaris. . . . It gently mocks the habits and pretensions of urbane, educated, left-leaning whites, skewering their passion for Barack Obama and public transportation (as long as it's not a bus), their idle threats to move to Canada, and joy in playing children's games as adults. Kickball, anyone?"
-Salon.com
"A handy reference guide with which you can check just how white you are. Hint: If you like only documentaries and think your child is gifted, you glow in the dark, buddy."
-NY Daily News
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