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| Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions | 
 enlarge | Author: Christian Lander
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 391
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0812979915
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.602
EAN: 9780812979916
ASIN: 0812979915
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Stuff Liberals Like August 1, 2008
14 out of 35 found this review helpful
Any truth to the rumor that this whole number - the book, the weblog - originally had the working title above? It makes a lot more sense that way. This is a calculated pretense of satire. It masks a posture struck to allow the author and his liberal cohort to receive self-congratulation. Somebody along the way had the smarts to recognize that substituting "White People" was a better marketing decision. There's some acute perception and witty writing here. It's sufficient to carry the reader along in a state of amusement until that inevitable point, otherwise recognizable in a too-prolonged diet of NPR listening, when finally the tone becomes insufferable.
The book's exquisitely detailed self-consciousness comes with a bit too much enthusiasm to work as satire. There's an annoying dissonance, a sense of falsification, between what one knows of the diversity of real-world white character and this catalogue of socioeconomic strivers' fixations. Laugh opportunities are provided, and insights burnished for approval, but ultimately it's a long joke you're glad to see coming to an end. Some, of course, will find this stuff rings their bell just right. They have here the opportunity to act on that impression.
Wow , what a rip off July 17, 2008
12 out of 41 found this review helpful
Organic food, coffee, bilingual children, farmers markets, spending time outside.... Wow, how hilarious! I don't get it. Why is any of that funny? I must be missing something here.
Either we white people are just LOOKING for something to laugh about ourselves or the author of this book is laughing. I choose both.
Shame of you white folks for buying and promoting such garbage.
I've got another thing that white people like: Reviewing books on Amazon and trying to come across as savy and intellectual. (Even on the books that don't require either of those talents.)
Stuff white people like: writing reviews on Amazon about white people July 22, 2008
12 out of 18 found this review helpful
If you don't like this book you have no sense of humor. It is very funny, but I do doubt the need for the book because there is already a blog. I have been going to that off and on for a while now. I guess it would be nice to give this as a gift to your favorite white person. Another thing white people like doing is giving gifts. Anyway, it could be good for some laughs. Getting back to the content. It is laugh out loud funny. However, it is not intended as a general joke about all white people. It does tend to go after the 45 and under crowd, the liberal, the metro, the recyclers, you get the drift. Joe Six Pack is not the target here nor would that be funny. This is not a book about racist white people, this is a book about the narcissist in all of us, white people that is.
 Exploring the Overclass with Gun and Camera July 2, 2008
11 out of 20 found this review helpful
This is one of the most brilliant satires I've ever read. When I first encountered these kinds of people at Yale in the 70s, I wondered where they all came from. It's comforting to realize that I'm not the only one.
White people? July 24, 2008
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Let me say up front that I enjoyed the book. I thought it was funny, and I snickered throughout the entire book. But, white people??? I would say it is more like liberal people. I don't think this is about ethnicity, or that it is generational - it just seemed more political than anything else.
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