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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 | 
 enlarge | Author: Will Blythe
Publisher: HarperCollins
Category: Book
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Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 604775
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Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.3 x 1.3
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.323630975656
ASIN: B000MGAHX2
Publication Date: March 1, 2006
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 I was laughing out loud as my husband read... July 28, 2008
My husband is from North Carolina (and grad) and like Will, he and his Dad shared their love for the Heels over the years...I had never grown up as a basketball fan, but after meeting Marty I learned to watch college ball and respect the month of March. I really knew I was in trouble when the first year living under the same roof, NC won the championship and he ran screaming around our house as I slept (this was quite a shock for me since I was CLUELESS to the importance of the game).
So...that leads me to this book. We were traveling back home to Atlanta once and Marty was reading passages of this book to me as we waited for our flight. I was laughing so hard when Will was telling about the little boy hitting him the head...I'm pretty sure people were staring!
I'm positive when we have a little boy or girl, the will become RABID fans too...then I'll have two screaming people running around my house during basketball season! HA...
Great book for any basketball fan.
To Laugh like this .... March 19, 2008
Will Blythe has crafted a must read book with this one!I laughed through it as I recognized myself in the obsessed Carolina fan self portrait Blythe paints. It simply is the best book on Carolina basketball ever written. The one on one conversations with Coach K, Coach Smith, and even Crazy Towel Guy are all must reads. Most remarkable is the way he ties family, religion, class struggles, and basketball all into one probing question ... IS IT ALRIGHT TO HATE YOUR RIVAL LIKE THIS?
This is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the trible mindset that is sports fanaticism. Those willing to laugh at themselves will enjoy it the most.
Great Fun! April 10, 2007
Even Duke fans won't be able to put down this entertaining analysis of the Duke-Carolina rivalry. Find out what's behind the bad blood between the two schools.
 Even Duke fans find it difficult to put down January 19, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I actually bought this book as a Christmas present for my husband who is a big Duke fan. I am the Tar Heel fan in the family and thus you see the method in my madness. However, he started reading it on Christmas day before all the wrapping paper was cleaned up and could not put it down for hours. He did make a number of comments disagreeing with various premises of the book, but it certainly kept his attention. I've just started the book and particularly enjoy the references to the author's family (I knew his father years ago) but it does bog down a bit in detailing the games during the season. Still, for any of us who have lived in Chapel Hill and been infected with the Tar Heel "bug" it is a 'must read.'
To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever: A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of January 19, 2007
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