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...is to Be Happy Forever...

I'm about 50 pages in and can't put it down. I'm laughing out loud and I'm not even a born-and-bred Kerrlinian.

Blythe's description of Gary Williams as UNC killed them in their championship year game at the Dome had me in stitches. Sweat, vampires, out-of-body experiences, it was all there.

Y'all MUST hop over to Amazon and pick up this (so far) riveting, hysterical and touching autobiography.

/end PSA

Got it from my dookie wife on Valentine's day. Plan on reading it in a couple weeks when the sting of this season has receded.

LOL. I am about 50 pages in and think it is boring. Probably because he hasn't said a thing that I don't already know (except maybe his mom conversations that I don't care about.) I'm hoping it gets more interesting.

I loved it.

On page 49 there is a section where Blythe describes North Carolinians...These days I begin my North Carolina history classes by reading from that bit.

It's next up in my stack....I'm looking forward to it.

Excerpts

http://northcarolina.scout.com/2/503294.html

http://northcarolina.scout.com/2/503630.html (Good one here...from the duke chronicle debacle, back before Konosihekm;edski had reined his booby knight tendencies)

http://northcarolina.scout.com/2/503978.html

http://northcarolina.scout.com/2/504356.html

http://northcarolina.scout.com/2/504791.html

By the way...Thad Williamson's More Than a Game (which I haven't read but intend to) is available on line:

http://media.scout.com/media/doc/40/408368.pdf

Here's a quick review by the author himself:

http://northcarolina.scout.com/3/morethanagame.html

I think I mentioned it before...but I'm slowly reading this book

http://www.umsystem.edu/upress/spring2006/hobson.htm



Off the Rim: Basketball and Other Religions in a Carolina Childhood by Fred Hobson

It is permeated with Tar Heelness

NC History was my favorite elective. Having Prof LeLoudis just made it all the much better.