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Stuff Hipsters Hate:: A Field Guide to the Passionate Opinions of the Indifferent
Based on the author's popular tumbler blog stuffhipstershate, which has been called Depressingly astute by the The New Yorker and Wickedly funny by The Frisky, comes the ultimate book on hipsterdom. From the dive bars of Brooklyn's Williamsburg to the dirty alleys of San Francisco's Mission, the urban hipster has redefined American cool with a sighing disdain for everything mainstream. Hipsters are easily identified by their worn-out shoes, fixies and PBR tallboys, but until now no one had investigated beyond the hipster look to the even more hilarious hipster psyche. With personally researched articles, revealing illustrations and helpful charts and graphs, Stuff Hipsters Hate exposes the bottomless well of impassioned scorn that motivates the ever-apathetic hipster, MATING AND SOCIAL HATES (buying you a drink - monogamy - texting back in a timely fashion), APPAREL AND GROOMING HATES (high heels - muscles - being asked about their tattoos) and WORK AND LIFE HATES (full-time jobs - knowing their bank balance - enthusiasm).
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First published July 1, 2010
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Brenna Ehrlich
3 books108 followersBrenna Ehrlich is a young adult author and music/culture journalist. She's the Chief Research Editor at Rolling Stone and has written for the likes of MTV News, CNN, Nylon, the Huffington Post, Vice, etc. She lives in New Jersey with her three gray cats and her husband.
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July 24, 2012
Some of the other reviewers need to lighten up (or whatever people say nowadays, dude).
If you're looking for a serious study of Millenials, a book whose title begins and ends with the words "stuff" and "hate" probably isn't the best place to look. On the other hand, if you want an amusing read that'll make you laugh and pass away a few hours, you could do a lot worse. It's a welcome antidote to Norman Mailer's solemn essay on the original 50's hipsters.
I realised I'm more of a hipster than I thought I was after reading this...except it was written 2 years ago and the definition of a hipster has changed since.
If you're looking for a serious study of Millenials, a book whose title begins and ends with the words "stuff" and "hate" probably isn't the best place to look. On the other hand, if you want an amusing read that'll make you laugh and pass away a few hours, you could do a lot worse. It's a welcome antidote to Norman Mailer's solemn essay on the original 50's hipsters.
I realised I'm more of a hipster than I thought I was after reading this...except it was written 2 years ago and the definition of a hipster has changed since.
August 18, 2012
A book that should have stayed a blog. It seems promising at first, but draaagggggggssssss. Could be re-released as an extremely funny pamphlet.
March 19, 2017
Starts off very funny but drags on and on. Started as a blog, I think? Maybe should have stayed that way. The chapter on dating should have been kept towards the middle or the end, as it sort of set the stage for me to not like the rest of the book. The dating chapter reads as though the 2 authors moved to NY, dated a bunch of hipsters, and then ended up jaded and bitter because of it. Jokes range from hilarious to downright cringe-inducing, and it colors the whole book in a way I did not anticipate or enjoy.
August 31, 2011
Mildly entertaining at best. The intro is quite promising, the hilarity derived from its completely serious tone. But after that the authors switch gears seemingly every few pages, going off on all sorts of tangents. The book loses effectiveness first due to double-dipping; if you're going in to make fun of hipsters, stick to making fun of hipsters, don't suddenly start making fun of jocks and sorority girls; it comes off as unfocused and petty. In fact quite a bit of the book seems petty, especially the constant references to hipsters being perpetually drunk and promiscuous. At the end of the day there are parts that make you giggle, but just as many that make you wonder who the hipsters were who broke the hearts of the authors and caused them to lash out in such a spectacularly over-dramatic fashion.
April 2, 2013
If I could give this book negative stars, I would.
What appears to be a joke from a blog is really just crap that should have stayed on the internet, if even that.
This book just reinforces stereotypes and labeling people and no matter how many people tell me it's funny and supposed to be humorous and harmless, I just can't agree. As I found humor in maybe half a page in the entire book, this is basically a good number of pages for people to equip in their stereotyping weaponry.
Because of the things in this book, it's people who hear one fact about a person and laugh while labeling them as a hipster without getting to know the person.
It's a step backward in accepting people as individuals and even if I didn't care about that, almost nothing was remotely funny. It was boring and repetitive.
What appears to be a joke from a blog is really just crap that should have stayed on the internet, if even that.
This book just reinforces stereotypes and labeling people and no matter how many people tell me it's funny and supposed to be humorous and harmless, I just can't agree. As I found humor in maybe half a page in the entire book, this is basically a good number of pages for people to equip in their stereotyping weaponry.
Because of the things in this book, it's people who hear one fact about a person and laugh while labeling them as a hipster without getting to know the person.
It's a step backward in accepting people as individuals and even if I didn't care about that, almost nothing was remotely funny. It was boring and repetitive.
May 2, 2015
It went too much in depth of a hipster. I was expecting each page to be a different category and maybe only 50 pages at the most. This is a full size book with lots of different categories that you would expect like "Hipsters dating" but then there were many that were not needed. I read the introduction, which I normally don't do, and while their observations were very spot on. It mostly based off the ladies dating experience so most of these reflect hipster guys, not girls. I thought it was going to be much more humorous but it just didn't click for me.
January 31, 2011
Mildly entertaining. Easy read (I read it today at work) that reminded me why I dislike the extremely self-absorbed overly literary types. They are so boring to talk to and so completely caught up in their own greatness. Grow up already! That being said, I do know a lot of people who are a little hipster who I do really enjoy. I'm sure the characters examined for this book are over the top.
February 11, 2011
Hilarious! One of the funniest books I have ever read. Of course you have to have had some expierence in dealing with hipsters to fully get what the book is making fun of. It is so spot-on though, loved it!
April 29, 2011
Eh.
It started out kind of amusing, but by the end it just sounded bitter and jaded and was pretty boring. It would have been a super fast read if I hadn't gotten so bored in the middle and quit reading it to read other (better) books instead.
It started out kind of amusing, but by the end it just sounded bitter and jaded and was pretty boring. It would have been a super fast read if I hadn't gotten so bored in the middle and quit reading it to read other (better) books instead.
August 6, 2012
What is a hipster? The book gives you an answer about this species. The habitat, food habits and mating rituals are packed with the description of clothing and life circle of true hipster. It supposed to be funny study of the phenomena. I think hipsters are behind it...
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for sure.
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for sure.
December 29, 2012
A little funny at times, but way too long. Should've just been an article. I live in Portland, hipster heaven, and thought it might be more broadly hipster focused and funny, but it mostly focused on Brooklyn.
April 18, 2011
what a piece of self-indulgent crap, I couldn't even finish it - it reads like the bitter blog of someone who was dumped by a hipster or twelve.
May 7, 2011
I really liked it a lot.
The stuff in there? It's funny, because it's true.
The stuff in there? It's funny, because it's true.
July 16, 2011
Was good for a few chuckles, but forgettable
August 11, 2011
I want three and a half stars, actually. Funny and accurate - a light read. Not life-changing, but really, it's about hipsters: were you expecting it to change your life?
September 12, 2011
Really not a joke with sustainability for an entire book. Probably should've been about half as long. It got old fast.
September 29, 2011
Funny idea for a blog, however, not so good in book form.
October 6, 2011
Fun, easy read.
July 16, 2012
This book was brutally true and some parts were funny here and there. It's not too memorable though. I'm glad it was a quick read.
September 22, 2012
Laughed super-duper hard. Completely related to the overly-stereotypical mind of the tragic, new-age "mountain man" hipster. A joke the whole way through!
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November 12, 2012really cool and funny, and stuff you would like to learn, funny drawings to go with it too.. loved it!!!!
June 17, 2013
It was pretty funny at first, but it got old fast. Funny blog doesn't equal funny book. It was just too long and repetitive.
February 25, 2014
Hilarious. And true. At least in Portland, OR.
October 17, 2014
Picked this up thinking it would be a meanspirited and funny look at the hipster subculture and I was half right. It ain't funny.
March 5, 2016
Read it in 2010 and now in 2016 again.
What a difference! Elite hipsterdom is now main politics, and it is popular everywhere.
What a difference! Elite hipsterdom is now main politics, and it is popular everywhere.
January 8, 2017
Amusing
April 20, 2011
Who the hell wrote this piece of crap?
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