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stevenyenzer's review against another edition
4.0
Brilliant and hilarious. I learned a lot and laughed a lot.
sgerner's review against another edition
3.0
Audiobook production quality was fantastic! Really enjoyed this look at contemporary race relations and American black identity.
fusskins's review against another edition
5.0
Hilarious and true! I listened to the audiobook which has interviews with the Black Panel. Those interviews and Thurston's great narration really add a lot to the book.
Everyone in America should read this book. Laugh your ass off and learn something!
Everyone in America should read this book. Laugh your ass off and learn something!
lindsayb's review against another edition
5.0
I'm sure I would have loved simply reading the print version, but the audio was particularly entertaining, thoughtful, and addictive.
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Read Harder: Collection of essays.
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Read Harder: Collection of essays.
wrenarf's review against another edition
3.0
I really liked the autobiographical parts of this book as well as the interviews and the more essay-y parts. The afterword was actually my favorite part and I would love to see a collection like that.
I just didn't like the funny-guide parts much. It felt sorta like an onion article where the premise and the first few lines are enough to carry the idea and the rest felt like filler.
Still probably worth a read for the good parts :)
I just didn't like the funny-guide parts much. It felt sorta like an onion article where the premise and the first few lines are enough to carry the idea and the rest felt like filler.
Still probably worth a read for the good parts :)
heyitsmeshanie's review against another edition
4.0
This book was absolutely hilarious to me. The writer's sarcasm was very welcoming. Living in DC now, I could vividly imagine some of the things he shared within the book. Some folks might dismiss his rhetoric as nonsense, however, there is is just so much truth in a lot of the things he shared.
audaciaray's review against another edition
4.0
Loved the humor, the autobiographical bits, and the interviews with the Black Panel (especially awesome in the audiobook version). Kinda meh on the "how to" stuff, but then again, I am not the intended audience for those pieces so I should STFU about that.
aimeelio's review against another edition
4.0
I listened to this one and enjoyed it. I especially liked the panel discussions. It gave me a lot to think about, and made me laugh. BRT seems like a super cool guy.
alaiyo0685's review against another edition
4.0
As a Black woman, I'm pretty easily reeled in by books whose titles suggest the author is trying to be either descriptive or, better/worse, prescriptive about Blackness. Baratunde Thurston's How to Be Black is clearly an example of this...and it definitely falls on the "better" side of that line for me. A collection of essays written mostly by Thurston himself, with interjections from others whose life work revolves around issues of race and identity in North America, How to be Black mixed punniness and provocativeness poignantly.
dlrcope's review against another edition
3.0
This is a fun audiobook, definitely worth listening to. My favorite parts were the ones where the black panel talked about things from their various black perspectives. Many parts were funny, but all parts were enlightening, for a honky anyway (just kidding, for a white person.) There is a long satirical section in the middle that was too long for me, but it gets good again at the end when he goes back to the black panel.
I think it'd be worth buying this book just to hear Baratunde Thurston's life story, which is amazing. He is definitely a writer to watch.
I think it'd be worth buying this book just to hear Baratunde Thurston's life story, which is amazing. He is definitely a writer to watch.