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Summary: A unique look at life
Review: "Field Guide to the Urban Hipster" is a unique/new/innovative/creative look at life in urban America. Aiello's insights are more on target than you may be first inclined to think because you are laughing so hard. The illustrations are a wonderful addition to the text. Once again, while some of the looks and brief descriptions may lead you to chuckle out loud, they are spot on in most every case. The witty prose coupled with satirical, yet lifelike designs make this book a must have for anyone's coffee table, waiting room, bathroom, minivan, or commute.I look forward to Aiello's next work and hope he collaborates with Shultz. I wonder if there isn't a cartoon somewhere in the future of "Urban Hipster"?????
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Summary: A unique look at life
Review: "Field Guide to the Urban Hipster" is a unique/new/innovative/creative look at life in urban America. Aiello's insights are more on target than you may be first inclined to think because you are laughing so hard. The illustrations are a wonderful addition to the text. Once again, while some of the looks and brief descriptions may lead you to chuckle out loud, they are spot on in most every case. The witty prose coupled with satirical, yet lifelike designs make this book a must have for anyone's coffee table, waiting room, bathroom, minivan, or commute. I look forward to Aiello's next work and hope he collaborates with Shultz. I wonder if there isn't a cartoon somewhere in the future of "Urban Hipster"?????
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Summary: stroke his genius
Review: A stunningly lucid account of an under-documented, but quickly emerging field of social anthropology. Aiello and Shultz's book, while worth all the laughs, is a book to be taken seriously for its scholarship and journalistic spirit.
I am interested in whether or not this will effect the hipster estabishment in a kind of 'we are on to you- so up the ante- kind of way'. Mad props.
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Summary: Lame
Review: After leafing through this book, I assumed the author must be about 60 years old. The "insights" he makes about what is hip seem to require about that much distance from youth. This is a cliched look at youth and trends.
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Summary: Bravo
Review: Aiello has virtually cornered the market on tough, urban ethnic types, playing cops, hoods, and working-class Italian patriarchs. Although his characters are often crass, vulgar, and violent, Aiello has also portrayed sensitive, kindly men with an earthy sense of humor. His decision to work with Scultz on this book must not have been an easy path to take. Chronic rejection and unrequited love are the twin plinths of Schulz's early life and later work. Even when he had become the one cartoonist known and loved by people around the world, he could still say, with conviction, "My whole life has been one of rejection." Melancholy would dog him all his life, as would feelings of worthlessness, panic, high anxiety and frustration. It wouldn't matter that he married twice, raised five children, and became the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, attaining success on a scale no individual comic strip artist had ever known. Success fell off him. He was unable to take refuge in its rewards. With his first wife and five children, he moved in 1958 to a paradise among the redwoods of Northern California, where he briefly found happiness during a decade in which the work of his pen and the peaks of his professional achievements coincided with the nation's upheavals. But Schulz knew better than anyone that he could never really become a sunny citizen of the Golden State. He found little comfort in fame or prosperity or the California sun. Pain gave him his core. "I think that one of the things that afforded Sparky his greatness," a friend would say after his death, "was his unwillingness to turn his back on the pain." All and all, a great book and 'Hot Shot City' is quite good, if not tragic in its obsequiousness.
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Summary: An Urban Essential
Review: Aiello's work is the definitive guide for anyone living in, working in, or casually visiting a city. As a city dweller, I come in contact with many of these types of people on a daily basis and this book nails it, right down to the dead-on illustrations. Absolutely hilarious!
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Summary: Amusing Pictures
Review: As the draftsman who drew this book's illustrations, I can say with some confidence that many of them meet and exceed minimum consumer standards of amusing-ness. You should definitely buy this book, if for no other reason than to give you and me something to talk about during what might otherwise be awkward silence.
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Summary: stupid and dull NOT genius
Review: Gee, i'll tell all my friends to write reviews for me and call me a genius when my book comes out. That's it! Come on....I can't believe a publisher actually took on this writer....he stinks! The book is stupid everyone....don't buy it. Don't buy the next book either....it's all mean. Let's all ask Josh what makes him so cool?
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Summary: uh.....those other reviewers are clearly paid...
Review: Hmmn. I don't normally read this junk but my friend happened to own it. It's sooo silly and offbase that my jaw dropped when i read all the glowing reviews. They all sound EXACTLY the same AND don't say anything about the book. So I am convinced that they were all paid. Aiello please do find a new hobby.
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Summary: This Book is Hilarious
Review: I bought this book on my lunch break and haven't put it down yet. Aiello is his own hipster species, of the Ignatius J. Reilly variety. Hopefully he doesn't belch as much. 5 bloody stars.
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