Description
Author and veteran white person Lander is back with fascinating new information and advice for dealing with the Caucasian population. He explores the stuff white people like, coast to coast, from Seattle's sweaters to Maine's microbrews.
Publication
Random House Trade Paperbacks (2010), Edition: 1st, 232 pages
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LibraryThing member zmagic69
I am a white person, and I am guilty of at least 1/2 a dozen things in this book. If you can't laugh at yourself, Don't read this book, if you can it is very funny! I think a lot of people need need to lighten up about this book.
LibraryThing member 77book
Funny parts, although At times I found thinking "but I like that."
Entertaining and very light reading. Single sitting reading. As I know many of these characters in real life it can make a reader uncomfortable. Thankfully I do not fit all the topics that Mr. Lander discusses.
Entertaining and very light reading. Single sitting reading. As I know many of these characters in real life it can make a reader uncomfortable. Thankfully I do not fit all the topics that Mr. Lander discusses.
LibraryThing member annbury
Amusing catalog of white people and what they like -- at least some white people. In this book, "white people" are left-leaning, college educated, urban, mostly young white people, the ones you would expect to find at an Obama rally (unless they are Canadian, which some are). Blue collar types,
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rednecks, and the like are not likely to recognize themselves in this. Not as funny as it was at first, though the shock of self-recognition (that NPR lady from Minneapolis!) is always salutary. Show Less
LibraryThing member annarellix
I am not American so there could be somethings that are different in Europe.
Wrong.
I laughed a lot of myself through the whole book as well as I did while reading the first one.
Wrong.
I laughed a lot of myself through the whole book as well as I did while reading the first one.
Media reviews
You’ll find “Whiter Shades of Pale” in that dimly understood and flimsy bookstore subdivision, the humor section. It belongs upfront, where the best new nonfiction walks point.
ISBN
0812982061 / 9780812982060