what are 'hipster' books?

theres an even better pile of uncool books on the other side but i decided not to post that one

nice collection of Everyman's Library, Lamp!

abhorrence of bookcases is probably a h_____ trait

carver - cathedral, so good, prob a good hipster one too

u have a lot of penguin modern classics huh. i know i read norman mailer's the fight in that particular design

abhorrence of bookcases is probably a h_____ trait

lol were painting the office

i mostly stop reading after world war 2 except for patches here and there, and by the 1980s i've halted completely (except for dfw, yes). i dunno how H that is. most people i know (who read) seem to start around catch-22.

i mostly stop reading after world war 2 except for patches here and there

how old are you man?

haha i mean "i don't read much postwar".

i'm 24 tho

lol

having worked in bookstores for years, i can say w/o equivocation that hipster all-star books are:

master and margherita
confederacy of dunces
perks of being a wallflower
atlas shrugged
choke
catch-22
house of leaves
underworld

the atlantic
the new yorker
the believer
monocle
new republic

rly? that list is like the stuff my nerdy friends were reading in my suburban high school.

atlas shrugged

lol rly? oh, america

'catch-22' just seems like one of those 'everyone likes this' books; im sure hipsters are part of the venn diagram tho

i had no idea the bulgakov was such a thing.

rly? that list is like the stuff my nerdy friends were reading in my suburban high school.

― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, August 28, 2011 5:58 PM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark

haha or this is the other answer. 'this is a hipster book now? i remember reading it in '93.'

rly? that list is like the stuff my nerdy friends were reading in my suburban high school.

― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, August 28, 2011 9:58 AM

yeah, exactly. it's not exactly a deep list, but it's got an appropriate affectation of darkness. kind of like tim burton.

fair point.

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^^^ likes bulgokov, irvine welsh, chuck p, one novel by bret easton ellis (but the others are crap!), that book by jared diamond that everybody read, and maybe murakami

one novel by bret easton ellis (but the others are crap!)

it would be cool if this were lunar park

maybe most hipsters are actually entry-level.

any stats on hipster dvd purchases?

requiem for a dream for sure

'the only easten ellis book worth reading is the informers' - someone on the second level

that list is like a Fopp stock-check

idk does hipster imply "kind of clueless" or is it interchangeable with "snob"

cuz I'm sure people could call me a snob for ignoring Toni Morrisson but getting excited about Arno Schmidt or whatever

any stats on hipster dvd purchases?

can't say with the same certitude as books, but at borders in seattle the hits were

slc punk
me and you and everyone we know
big leibowski
say anything
fear and loathing in las vegas
royal tenenbaums

i.e. suburban people buckin' against de mans ^^^^

i feel like mb u dont know what a hipster is

hipster definitely do not buy dvds

i feel like the h*ipster cannon is like:

the tunnel (whg)
cat's cradle
infinite jest
quartet (rhys)
confessions of a justified sinner
the sheltering sky
the cairo trilogy
bukowski's poetry
a biography of david hume
orwell's 'essays'

also probably a book abt the velvet underground that i havent read

i feel like mb u dont know what a hipster is

idk mb if u like found the directors label boxset at a goodwill or like the oop john woo criterion dvds or s.thing

a lot of these have in common that they are not very challenging

ehh compared to what?

required reading in american high schools?

once again im just coming away from this thinking hipsters basically means young university graduates with basically intelligent tastes and a kind of identifiable dress-code. that's already a tiny demographic and doing anything more is splitting hairs/self-identifying as top-tier.

corey let us know what books you think are more challenging + also worth reading

mainstream books are going to be less demanding than 'infinite jest' or 'the sheltering sky', on the whole.

confederacy of dunces is like the Pabst Blue Ribbon of books

ehh, no xp

tbh I know more hipsters who probably don't read at all than hipsters who know who david hume is

corey let us know what books you think are more challenging + also worth reading than 'infinite jest' or 'the sheltering sky' or 'a biography of david hume'

All my Wburg hipster friends are super into Vonnegut tbh

Vonnegut, Pynchon and DFW are p much the Animal Collective of authors

again, nobody is really a ''''pure hipster'''' but I don't necessarily think it entirely - or even overwhelmingly - overlaps w/ 'intellectual'/stereotypes about intellectuals/stereotypes about people who read a lot

a lot of these have in common that they are not very challenging

idk i feel like at least some of the h*pster cannon is self-consciously 'challenging' like i never got more strangers approvingly remarking on my subway reading than when i was reading 'the recognitions' but mb that was because the cover is bright pink idk

i kinda think that 'hipsters' arent ppl that are good @ school but still think of themselves as 'smart' rather than than 'young university graduates with basically intelligent tastes'

also iatee otm books arent really a 'hipster' thing like art or vintage synths or tumblr or w/e

xpost otm, but obv there's a hueg crossover in the hipster/intellectual Venn diagram since white/pampered/college-educated/leisure class/etc/etc/etc

a lot of these have in common that they are not very challenging

this is the most hipster thing posted in this thread tbh

remy has already said everything i wanted to say on this thread except: master and margherita x 100000

Vonnegut and Bukowski

vonnegut and bukowski are 'hardy perennials' of youth culture aren't they? which isn't to say they are hipster stock reading too.

that reprint of the recognitions had the most horrible cover

Vonnegut, Pynchon and DFW are p much the Animal Collective of authors

― brrr-icane aye-rene (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, August 28, 2011 6:13 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

i feel like you can probably expand this analogy productively