To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever: A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry
by Will Blythe
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Author: Will BlytheEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2006-03-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: HarperCollins
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Summary: 3 Stars
The book is more a diagnosis/autobiography of the author's anti-duke psychosis set in the back drop of the 2004-2005 championship season than a history of the rivalry itself. The book aspires to be an analysis of why a seemingly well bred well educated person would have such strong animosity to an otherwise academically respected university and well run athletic program. At times it does so, but more often it is a confessional of the hatred. Other reviewers are correct, the book is very humorous and contains many anecdotes the reader will feel compelled to share with others. My favorite part of the book is its analysis of Melvin Scott, a one time starter who struggles to adapt to his role on the bench and who relies on his charismatic christian faith for sustenance. The agnostic author, raised a Presbyterian, expresses discomfort with charismatic worship, but treats Melvin Scott with great respect. The book's greatest failing is when it purports to analogize Duke University with overweening ambition in contrast to UNC's respect for place. Those passages are based too much on stereotype and the author's acknowledged bias. Having grown up in Durham and graduated from UNC I know the stereotypes (like all stereotypes) are occasionaly true and often false. I was raised to respect a worthy opponent: I'm a Carolina fan who respects Duke and a Red Sox fan who respects the Yankees. I hoped this book would shed some light on why intelligent level headed people lose all sense of balance and impartiality when rooting for their team and against their rival. The answer seems to be they just do, whether out of jealosy for the rival success or the need for a release. Did I enjoy the book? Absolutely. Is it a literary classic worthy of a "5"? No.
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