Stuff White People Like: The Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions

Hilarious, honest, great conversation piece

Great gift for that liberal in your life! As a graduate of a private liberal arts college in NJ, this book is a strikingly accurate and entertaining satire of "white culture." You will be hard-pressed to find a white person in your life who does not fit many, if not all, of these attributes. I found myself nodding and laughing out loud with each turn of the page. Erring more on the side of the far-left Caucasian, it will probably be coming soon to a Whole Foods near you...

4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

Great Gift!

I bought this for my sister in college as a gift and she loved it. Hilarious and so true it's uncanny!

4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

Wrong.

Stereotypical, oppressive, and lying. I could write the same saying black people like chicken, watermelons, etc. Or one saying Asians eat puppys, and beat their wives. This whole book is based off of one group of people, but yet you still address it as white people as a whole.

2 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

30%

After reading this book and taking the quiz at the end I'm a concentrated 30% white. Even though I'm first generation American born to Jamaican parents...and a yoga-practicing, outdoor-running, designer sweatpants-wearing, Whole Foods and organic-lving, tea-drinking, following my dreams cyclist. If you can't laugh at yourself and/or others around you then please don't read this book. Otherwise you will be laughing out loud through its entirety.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Fabulous, so much fun and accurate.

Loved it~ fun read

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

A Laugh Out Loud (or Secretly Snicker) Book About Human Foibles

Christian Lander - with some photographic help from his wife Jessica Lander - has succeeded in transforming into book form his blog site STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE and the result is a compendium of 150 idiosyncrasies that mark white people as a groupie well worth 'mocking'. Lander writes so well that his zingers remain on target while providing entertainment for the reader instead of producing a mockery or lambast too personal to continue. The first clue to his universal approach is the subtitle of the book, 'A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions', and if you don't catch the humor in that then much of the book will be lost on you! After reading some of the 'Stuff' Lander lists we begin to feel the artifice of Lander's thinking the long list of everyday items, as defined or described by Lander, spreads in comic relief the pretentiousness, the shallow desire to be 'with it', the countless fads we indulge while denying the commonality of those items, and the way 'white people' are perceived by the world at large - both at home and abroad. It has been said that nothing is funnier than reality and this book proves that statement 150 times - with many more thoughts initiated by the book that extend the depth of comedy in the 'unique tastes' we claim. For instance, one favorite thing to discuss is public transportation, heralded as a big city luxury worth expanding into the little cities, but stopping short when the word 'bus' enters the conversation. 'When it comes to the subject it's best to understand that white people do not recognize public transit as a viable option until a subway line is built that runs directly from their house to their work. Until that time, public transportation is a luxury only for New Yorkers and Europeans, sort of like opera.' Other topics addressed range from Netflix, Veganism/Vegetarianism, Microbreweries, Yoga, Tea, Black Friends/Gay Friends, Portland, Oregon to San Francisco prejudices, Bakeries, Hardwood Floors, Integrity (versus 'selling out'), Natural Medicine, Plays, Cheese, Therapy - the list seems endless. From Following Their Dreams, to where to visit/vacation (Third World Countries for all the wrong reasons) to the importance of knowing how to give 'the good dinner party', Lander finds truths that cause us to ache a bit in acknowledging but force us to relax and really laugh at how each of these item is so very true. To continue on another thing ('stuff') that Lander addresses, Awareness of just how each of these traits define us in the brush with reality that will perhaps not only entertain us while reading this wisely humorous book, but will also turn on the light to the acceptance that 'white people' have become as marginalized as other social groups who have long since found audiences who delight in the 'truth confessionals' that fill our computer YouTube and TVs - oh, but then real white people don't own TVs.... Christian Lander has a major hit on his hands. Read this and share this. It is hilariously entertaining! Grady Harp

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

awesome

white people be trippin

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

not what they like but what they can afford...

This book while funny on a superficial level if you pause for a second and actually take it in it isn't so much stuff white people like but what white people can afford unfortunately. I am disgusted at how much this is actually about class issues than about race issues, although don't get me wrong, they are somewhat in there. This book should be offensive to anyone reading it. All the book does is make it okay to perpetuate inequality.

1 out of 11 people found this review helpful.

Really.....

White people? REALLY?????? The title pisses me off so bad I wouldnt read this garbage if you paid me. Anyone who buys this book is a first class sucker.

Lol

Soooo true

NOT horrible NOT horriblr

Its funny! Anyone who says that its steriotypical garbage doesnt get the trueness of it! Like 90 percent of its true and its nice to have a llaugh from a story like this. Its absolutely not horrible and should stay on the shelves for a long time.

Funny!

I dont know why people are taking this book too seriously! Its a great book fore people that know how to take jokes.

How to Make Friends with a Hipster

Sounds like a better title for this book than the one given. The humor works very well, great use of sarcasm and satire. But you're kidding yourself if you think this book accurately describes more than 25% of the white population. Who would've thought I was 80% Irish 20% German yet only 15% white?

Looking for funny stuff...

Just not sure about this one. Going by the description, book is not about white people but about Liberal New Yorkers. Yeah. Right?

0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Wheres my whites at. Where are my whities at?

They should make one that says, stuff latinos like. And i mean latinos that were born in the usa. Not mexicans. They just like to run across the border. Even though thats ho they gt here.

If it was "horrible" why was it on tyra?

You white people are taking this book to god damned serious!! Like chill the hell up. It was on the tyra banks show and it didnt seem any white people were affended... so shut the hell up..the president is black.... live with it

0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Great, if you have a sense of humor

Some people apparently don't understand the meaning of "satire". Hilarious book that had me giggling the whole way through.

If you can take a joke...

As a white person from a metropolitan area, I can greatly relate to this book. Personally, I found this book hilarious and mostly true. I can't help laughing at many of the nonsensical white people taste and activities. As the book says, " the unique taste of millions". Many of his points are simply voicing the unmentionable and often silly reasoning behind these white ideology. I would encourage anyone to read this book with an open mind. Don't be uptight and serious when reading this book, instead take the ego hits and just laugh at yourself if it applies. This book does not apply to every white demographic, but it is still very funny. I hope you give this book a shot, because it is nit intended to be rude or belittling. It is just good fun...insightful and educational. Enjoy! :)

Despicable

If this despicable pack of lies and slander could get published, then apparently anything could pass for 'readable material'. This isn't even fit to be toilet tissue in the nastiest of restrooms.

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

horrible

I read a few pages of the sample and it was nothing but stereotyping garbage. Don't even waste your time!

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.