Little Guide To Unhip edition by Kate Rigby Humor Entertainment eBooks
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Have you ever worried about not being quite hip enough? Or maybe you are one of those who flaunts your unhipness with abandon. Either way, Little Guide to Unhip is for you. Although it charts my own personal unhip top 50 with the likes of Gilbert O’Sullivan, Morris Dancing, Vicar of Dibley, Shopping Trolleys and Brollies, I picked those characters, characteristics, attributes or material objects with a universally unhip feeling to them. Each is given an unhip rating up to five for you to keep a count of your own and includes personal anecdotes. There is also a 'bubbling under' list for a further those unhips things not quite making the top 50.
This book carries a warning some readers may seriously dent their coolness if caught reading this material!
Little Guide To Unhip edition by Kate Rigby Humor Entertainment eBooks
Little Guide to Unhip had me in stitches...beige ones, of course! What an excellent idea for a book. There are 50 entries, and each on is just as hilarious at the one before. My faves so far are the chapters on Early Birds, Sitting Downstairs on the Bus, Badminton, Holiday in Austria and Leo Sayer. Poor K. J. Rigby is one unhip gal. And what I find hilarious is the inevitable appearance in many of the entries of K.J.'s sister "Ann," the two girls struggling to attain entry into hipsterdom that they will sadly never come (especially as Going Places With Your Sister is another entry!). Christmas is another chapter here that is hilarious, and, actually, I believe this is a marvelous book would be a wonderful stocking stuffer for that most unhip of holidays. Buy copies for all the family!! FIVE STARSProduct details
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Little Guide To Unhip edition by Kate Rigby Humor Entertainment eBooks Reviews
Frank, candid and never squeamish about debunking the 'debunkable'. In places, the author is brave enough to be almost self-effacing if it reveals the funny or ironic side of our popular conceits and this was, I thought, really refreshing when some of us - I include myself - sometimes take ourselves a little too seriously instead of enjoying life as it comes. Kate Rigby has a sprightly wit in exposing the banality of some of our prejudices as to what is/ is not à la mode.
The hip and the unhip in Kate Rigby's sojourns in Europe, from Salzburg to Albania, was pure entertainment; not just because of the carefully equated cool/uncool but because of the sometimes tumultuous blips in the intended itinerary which were a delight to share - albeit via print rather than presence at the point of blip.
Even the subject of 'early birds' arriving at parties is touched upon with an endearing humour, balancing the intricacies of what is and what isn't etiquette, in all its follies.
Yes, pure entertainment.
Whether or not you've ever wanted to be, tried to be, or been hip, cool or "in", read K. J. Rigby's "Little Guide to Unhip". It's a frolic through all the silliness that "hip", "cool" and "in" mean in every generation. Have fun with it. It'll give you a lot of chuckles and some real belly laughs.
The most fun I had reading it was recalling what was considered hip back in the 50s (for guys it was an Elvis style haircut) when I was definitely a member of the unhip camp. Then the late 60s came along followed by the 70s, and everything that was countercultural suddenly became hip (and cool and very, very in). Flare trousers, wide neckties (I swear some of them would have made good bibs), beards (I grew one), long skirts, folk music, Ravi Shankar and The Beatles. (Eleanor Rigby played in my head while I read the book. Sorry, K.J., your name tripped the "play" button the minute I saw it.)
One of the fun things about "Little Guide to Unhip" is realizing how silly it all is, this fussing over whether one is or one isn't "hip", all the things K. J. Rigby lists (there are 50 categories) that we fret about (or once did) as having real meaning. It's like watching "Keeping Up Appearances" (one of my all-time favorite British sitcoms) and laughing at yourself.
I give this book an enthusiastic five.
Many people strive to be cool, hip even. In fact, hipsters are all the rage these days. So, hipness, well, that is the goal for most people, places, things, and activities. Sadly, there are some things that will just never, ever be hip. This book is a guide to those things which are permanently, tragically, unhip.
While this book was written for a primarily British audience, I knew enough about British culture to know how smashingly brilliant (was that unhip?) it was. This book is laugh out loud funny, which was a bit of a problem, since I was reading it in bed next to my Hubby at 2 am. Luckily, he is a sound sleeper.
Rigby wickedly relates her run ins with hipness, and unhipness as the case often is, with regard to the items on her top 50 list of things unhip, and I found myself relating to so many of her stories. It made me feel a sense of camaraderie with every unhip person out there, knowing that in our communal uncoolness, there is something awesomely cool. And I, for one, loved Leo Sayer as a teenager, I am just saying.
I think this book is perfect for Brits with a good sense of humor, and Americans with a good sense of adventure. When you traverse into unfamiliar territory, there is always wikipedia, right? This was a nice, light comic read, that left me giggling, and pondering the possibilities of an American equivalent. I highly recommend it.
I really enjoyed this little guide, no pun intended! I have the feeling that I am a similar vintage to the author because there were an awful lot of things that sounded terribly familiar - getting into my jeans in my teens by means of laying on the bed and using a metal coathanger, being just one of them, lol.
As a person who mostly reads thrillers, it made a nice change to just read something lighthearted like this. I would recommend it to everyone, especially if you are over 40, umm, over 50, like me )
4.5 stars.
I was extremely disappointed in this book. It has a most decided bent toward the British way of life.
Some attempts at humor fell flat. The book seemed very dated and not at all relevant to modern American life. The author seemed simply to pull "unhip" things out of thin air.
Kind of cute. If I hadn't lived in London lots of this wouldn't make a lot of sense. Also, as is well known, hip is very time sensitive so is this now passe'?
An amusing read, with the occasional flash of real insight. Well written and impeccably presented. While it may be British in many of the references, there is no reason it should not strike a chord with Americans as well. So much of our culture is world-wide these days.
Little Guide to Unhip had me in stitches...beige ones, of course! What an excellent idea for a book. There are 50 entries, and each on is just as hilarious at the one before. My faves so far are the chapters on Early Birds, Sitting Downstairs on the Bus, Badminton, Holiday in Austria and Leo Sayer. Poor K. J. Rigby is one unhip gal. And what I find hilarious is the inevitable appearance in many of the entries of K.J.'s sister "Ann," the two girls struggling to attain entry into hipsterdom that they will sadly never come (especially as Going Places With Your Sister is another entry!). Christmas is another chapter here that is hilarious, and, actually, I believe this is a marvelous book would be a wonderful stocking stuffer for that most unhip of holidays. Buy copies for all the family!! FIVE STARS
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