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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. fairly entertaining and always hilarious...should be called what liberal white people like. I'm up to 40% white. (  ) ekelly27 | Dec 27, 2009 |  Moderately funny. (  ) mcandre | Nov 1, 2009 | According to the survey, I'm only 35% white. I only have one last name and I do not call my Barcelona chair "the van der Rohe." So I suppose I'm the "wrong" kind of white person...just as I long suspected. (  ) mjgrogan | Jul 17, 2009 | For what it it is, this is one of the most fun books I have brought into my life in months. I took it to work and we had a wonderful, rueful time scoring ourselves and realizing how very white, by the measures of the book, most of us are. There are some really stinging moments, especially around food. The love of sandwiches, brunch, ethnic food. Travel. IPods with lots and lots and lots of music. Liberalism. Sunday Papers. Being outdoors. We laughed and talked more than we had in a long while. Of course I live in Portland, and the Portland lifestyle is all about Stuff White People Like. I wouldn't categorize it as lit, but I don't think that was what the author was after. I think he was poking fun at me, my friends, my neighbors, my coworkers and that was kind of fun. I heartily recommend this to anyone who is big enough to take it. (  ) owenre | Mar 24, 2009 | Underwhelming, but occasionally funny...just not funny enough to enjoy as a book you sit down to read. I think Lander's musings are more satisfying in blog form when they have no pretense of importance or value. ( ) haasim | Jan 15, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0812979915, Paperback)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 (retrieved from Amazon Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:54:15 -0500) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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