A Field Guide to the Urban Hipster

by Josh Aiello

A Comprehensive Guide to Identifying More than 35 Species of Urban Hipsters Like most wildlife, Urban Hipsters offer valuable and entertaining opportunities for observation and study. To date, casual... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0767913728
• ISBN13: 9780767913720
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Broadway Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

BRILLIANT!

This book is positively incredible. Aiello & Shultz cranked out a book that everyone in their right mind should pick up. A+++++

You need to own this book!

I completely enjoyed reading this book- It was highly entertaining. The author has a great sense of humor that shows through his writing. The illustrations are fantastic as well and help set this book apart from any others in its genre.A great read and an even better gift! I highly recommend this book.

More than meets the eye

There is definitely more to this book than meets the eye. It is not just another piece of fluff about hipster culture. It is witty, intelligent, well-researched and frighteningly accurate. I think every reader will find at least one person he or she knows described with disturbing insight. Even those who do not consider themselves afficionados of hipster culture will appreciate Aiello's humor and Schultz's art.

More detailed and complex than noticable at first glance...

The first surprise when first picking up this book was its size. 224 full pages! No 2 inch margins, 18 point text, or blank "section" pages so often used to fill out the "good-premise, no follow-through" bathroom books that usually sell for twice as much. This book will take you some time to go through, start to finish. That's a very good thing, considering how insightful and clever each page is.The second surprise was in the illustrations. There are tons of them! And I suppose I should have expected sharp details considering the book's satire source (bird-watching and other nature guides), but the depth of humor in the drawings keeps some of the best jokes hidden until your third or fourth viewings. You'll find yourself scanning each page intently looking for each next piece of wit.This book inspires thoughts of hugely expanded games of hipster bingo, brings up ideas for snappy Halloween costumes, improves your insulting techniques, and, of course, identifies, clarifies, and classifies any big city hipsters you'll come across.

Funny!

This book is an exhaustive, satirical explication of all sorts of different social subcultures, from the vaguely mainstream to those you didn't know existed, until you see one lounging at your local coffee shop. More than a treatise on "hipsters," this book examines the very hip as well as the woefully unhip, with amusing results. Also, the illustrations are hilarious.