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The Hipster Handbook
hip•ster - \hip-stur (s)\ n. One who possesses tastes, social attitudes, and opinions deemed cool by the cool. (Note: it is no longer recommended that one use the term "cool"; a Hipster would instead say "deck.") The Hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not a part of them and shuns or reduces to kitsch anything held dear by the mainstream. A Hipster ideally...more
Paperback, 176 pages
Published
February 4th 2003
by Anchor
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Without this book I wouldn't know how to categorize, rank, and otherwise pigeonhole everyone I meet. Thanks, Hipster Handbook!
When I was younger, growing up not really connected to the “cool” and “fashionable” and living on the fringes of various subcultures, I occasionally wondered about the future and what trends, new fashions, and fads would come into being in the futuristic 2000s. I remember being vaguely aware of this new “hipster” thing, specifically from this book, which I flipped through casually at various bookstores and heard interviews on NPR, but not really connecting it to greater pop cultural themes. Now,...more
Dec 12, 2009
Patrick
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Less a hipster handbook than a satire of a trend that never existed, or, more accurately, existed for two years between 2000-2002, this book is a good cultural relic for a time when hipsters thought computers were lame and still liked rock and roll. Some of it's pretty funny, and I learned some things along the way. For instance, did you know Walt Disney founded the California Institute of the Arts? Or that Willard Scott was Bozo the Clown? And I keep on laughing when I read this line:
"Hipsters...more
"Hipsters...more
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This book was hilarious! I have absolutely nothing against hipsters but the title caught my eye, and I wanted to learn more about hipsters since Vancouver may be the hipster capital of Canada. This book mainly consists of lists to educate the reader about hipsters; for example, different types of hipsters, the kind of music they like, a glossary of hipster slang (I didn't recognize a single one),types of facial hair,the books they read, which colleges they are most likely to go to, and so on. It...more
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Hipsters have their own society, that is living off the general society. Even though they are generally illustrates as young people, hipsers age, as the book indicates, but with age the hipster essence fades.
I liked the small ironic treaty about hipsters. It's pseudo-scientific, well written and not to mention funny. It analyses hipsters from all points of view and also it categorieses them.
The hipster handbook makes a big step in introducing the non-hipster to the small culture. With pick up l...more
I liked the small ironic treaty about hipsters. It's pseudo-scientific, well written and not to mention funny. It analyses hipsters from all points of view and also it categorieses them.
The hipster handbook makes a big step in introducing the non-hipster to the small culture. With pick up l...more
I was given a copy of The Hipster Handbook by a former writing student who was bartending at the Knitting Factory for the book release party. I'd shown up for the Gotham Writers' Workshop faculty reading that followed the party, and Larry--my former student who'd missed most of my classes to deal with a "police matter" in Los Angeles--told me wryly, "I'm a Bipster." That's Hipster Handbook-speak for a blue-collar histper. Bipsters like playing darts and are prone to date rape. As if! Larry and I...more
A Christmas gift from my mom - The Hipster Handbook has been my bathroom read for the last 2 weeks or so.
A field guide to those who possess tastes, social attitudes, and opinions deemed "cool" by the cool; (except it's no longer cool to say "cool" - "deck" is the preferred term), this slim volume presents the world of the hipster in a straightforward manner. Overviews of the subtypes (Unemployed Trust-Funder, Clubber, The Schmooze, Waitstaff & Service Hipster, Neo-Crunch, & Bipster, am...more
A field guide to those who possess tastes, social attitudes, and opinions deemed "cool" by the cool; (except it's no longer cool to say "cool" - "deck" is the preferred term), this slim volume presents the world of the hipster in a straightforward manner. Overviews of the subtypes (Unemployed Trust-Funder, Clubber, The Schmooze, Waitstaff & Service Hipster, Neo-Crunch, & Bipster, am...more
So here I am dressed as fin as imaginable in my tie-die shirt and the test at the end of the book tells me I'm deck. The test came out more accurately for my husband pointing him out for for the poseur that he is. The illustrations are best part of the book and the most boring bits have to be the lengthy explanations of the various types of hipsters. By about the third one I just started skipping through these sections.
Comprehensive and thorough. Very informative. Also existential. Hipsters love to make fun of other hipsters, without realizing that they themselves are also hipsters. Am I a hipster? What makes hipster truely a hipster? What is the essense of "hipster"? No one can ever really answer thse burning questions. But thank god someone tried.
the worst part about this book isn't that you know these people -- it's that you ARE one of the character types described. this was hilarious. very funny take on the culture of the cool kids. the interesting effect of reading this book is that after you realize you're part of a scene, you want to leave it immediately.
Several years ago, a friend got me a copy of this and I am just now getting around to reading it. I didn't know what a hipster was but she was convinced I was/am one.
I was hoping this would make the matter clear.
It didn't.
I am now more confused about hipster culture than ever.
However, it was pretty funny in parts.
I was hoping this would make the matter clear.
It didn't.
I am now more confused about hipster culture than ever.
However, it was pretty funny in parts.
Jul 29, 2012
Laura
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
hipsters in denial, hipsters,
Shelves:
books-i-own
i bought this in 2004- back when Dazzler was still called Totally Radd!! and the epithet of choice was "indie", not hipster.
basically i read this before it went mainstream.
basically i read this before it went mainstream.
Funny! The copy I read (from my local public library)had HIGHLIGHTED pages in the dating section-that made it even funnier. Everyone knows a few people who fit the hipster mold (I am not one of them). I thought of a hipster that was omitted- hairdresser/make up artist...I know a few.
Learn where hipsters hang out and their alcoholic drinks of choice! Check out the types of hipster and see which you are or wish you were! Browse the glossary for lots of hilarious hipsterspeak I've never heard anyone use! Peruse the hipster hairdo galleries! Study the hipster love chart and see which matches are sure things and which are likely to crash and burn!
I'm gonna go ahead and say I loved this book. Yes love is a strong word, however it captures my true feeling. It's hilarious. Honestly and truly. Read it no matter what your stance on hipsters.
Cute. I give it five stars because I imagine creating a book like this is more exhausting to the author than writing a simple story.
Now I have a whole bunch more books I need to read as a result of this book.
It never ends.
Now I have a whole bunch more books I need to read as a result of this book.
It never ends.
Probably would like it better if I was part of the hipster generation and knew more people who fit the descriptions. Some laugh out loud funny bits in it.
I wanna be a hipster, just don't have 2% body fat ;)
I read this as a kindle book, and the layout/ intended structure was off putting.
I read this as a kindle book, and the layout/ intended structure was off putting.
It would be funnier if it wasn't so damned true. This pseudo cultural studies piece is a good poke at all of us who think we're too cool.
Jun 18, 2009
Elliott Vaughn
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It was kinda already"DATED"when i read it back in 2001.
Basically it was just someone taking the cast from Clueless&making predictions.
Basically it was just someone taking the cast from Clueless&making predictions.
A wonderful insight into the lives of those who deem themselves "superior" by cultural standards. All in all a hilarious read.
Exactly what you'd expect. This does get a bonus star for being outdated though. Somehow that adds some charm and makes it "deck."
This book is hilarious! I'm glad that the hipsters took a hiatus from taking themselves too seriously and were catalogued.
If this book didn't make you laugh, or at least crack an implacable smile, then you probably are one of these people.
I am glad that this thing can happen in land far, far away. Hipsters start to fill even my tiny country :)
Aug 21, 2009
Jaycruz Cruz
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Pop culture enthusiasts,
Shelves:
non-fiction
A short snarky snapshot of the youth counter culture, or more like "non counter", of this decade. The so called oughts, naughts, or 00's (pronounced oh's).
The quiz at the end affirmed what my very reading of the book implied...I am no hipster. Tongue and cheek.
Being a couple of years old, it's a bit out of date but nevertheless ironic.
Sep 05, 2010
Allison
marked it as to-read
Committing to reading this is like committing to my self-loathing and disgust.
This book is deck, but my review is fin. This book makes me giggle.
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Robert Lanham is the author of the beach towel classic, The Emerald Beach Trilogy, which includes the acclaimed works PreCoitus, Coitus, and Afterglow. More recent books include the satirical anthropological studies The Hipster Handbook, Food Court Druids, Cherohonkees, and other Creatures Unique the Republic, and The Sinner's Guide to the Evangelical Right. Lanham's writing has appeared in The Ne...more
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