― R t V (Jake Proudlock), Saturday, 17 January 2004 19:01 (twenty years ago) link
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― Silly Sailor (Andrew Thames), Monday, 19 January 2004 06:34 (twenty years ago) link
Hipster books!
― the pinefox, Saturday, 27 August 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
i go to ilx for interesting opinions on many things but 'defining hipster books' is probably not one of them
― thomp, Saturday, 27 August 2011 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
considering the # of posters that never post abt novels except on dfw threads i think ilx probably has a good grasp of what 'the hipster novel' represents
― Lamp, Saturday, 27 August 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― brrr-icane aye-rene (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
that would be 'the hipster novel' in the singular, then
― thomp, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
it's a weird thing about him how popular he is amongst people who don't read, really
― thomp, Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:27 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark
― just sayin, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
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― sarahel, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/IMG_0040.jpg
― Lamp, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
is that the forsyte saga?
― thomp, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
haha it is
― Lamp, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
theres an even better pile of uncool books on the other side but i decided not to post that one
― Lamp, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
nice collection of Everyman's Library, Lamp!
― corey, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
abhorrence of bookcases is probably a h_____ trait
― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
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
― zvookster, Saturday, 27 August 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
lol were painting the office
― Lamp, Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
i mostly stop reading after world war 2 except for patches here and there
how old are you man?
― HEROIN IS LIKE JAZZ TO ME (history mayne), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
haha i mean "i don't read much postwar".
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
i'm 24 tho
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
having worked in bookstores for years, i can say w/o equivocation that hipster all-star books are:
master and margheritaconfederacy of duncesperks of being a wallfloweratlas shruggedchokecatch-22house of leavesunderworld
the atlanticthe new yorkerthe believermonoclenew republic
― come back to the five and dime remy bean, (remy bean), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
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, 28 August 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
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
― HEROIN IS LIKE JAZZ TO ME (history mayne), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
i had no idea the bulgakov was such a thing.
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
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
― *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.'
― *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.
― come back to the five and dime remy bean, (remy bean), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
fair point.
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://blog.fourfront1602.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tumblr_l34zh0UsiU1qzzhzdo1_500.jpg
^^^ 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
― come back to the five and dime remy bean, (remy bean), Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
one novel by bret easton ellis (but the others are crap!)
it would be cool if this were lunar park
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
maybe most hipsters are actually entry-level.
any stats on hipster dvd purchases?
― HEROIN IS LIKE JAZZ TO ME (history mayne), Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
requiem for a dream for sure
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
'the only easten ellis book worth reading is the informers' - someone on the second level
― Lamp, Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
that list is like a Fopp stock-check
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
idk does hipster imply "kind of clueless" or is it interchangeable with "snob"
― corey, Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
cuz I'm sure people could call me a snob for ignoring Toni Morrisson but getting excited about Arno Schmidt or whatever
can't say with the same certitude as books, but at borders in seattle the hits were
slc punkme and you and everyone we knowbig leibowski say anythingfear and loathing in las vegasroyal tenenbaums
i.e. suburban people buckin' against de mans ^^^^
― come back to the five and dime remy bean, (remy bean), Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like mb u dont know what a hipster is
― Lamp, Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
hipster definitely do not buy dvds
― back in a .gif ;) (flopson), Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like the h*ipster cannon is like:
the tunnel (whg)cat's cradleinfinite jest quartet (rhys)confessions of a justified sinnerthe sheltering skythe cairo trilogybukowski's poetrya biography of david humeorwell's 'essays'
― Lamp, Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
also probably a book abt the velvet underground that i havent read
― Lamp, Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
idk mb if u like found the directors label boxset at a goodwill or like the oop john woo criterion dvds or s.thing
― Lamp, Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
a lot of these have in common that they are not very challenging
― corey, Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
ehh compared to what?
― HEROIN IS LIKE JAZZ TO ME (history mayne), Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
required reading in american high schools?
― corey, Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― HEROIN IS LIKE JAZZ TO ME (history mayne), Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link