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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A nice effort rendered moot by poor editing, April 14, 1998
By A Customer
If you're a Kentucky fan who wants scores of photographs of UK's past and present teams, players, and coaches, then this is the book for you. If, however, you want a book that gets into the substance of Kentucky basketball, read Lonnie Wheeler's "Blue Yonder, Kentucky." While the pieces on Adolph Rupp, Joe B. Hall, and Rick Pitino in "Legacy of Champions" are good on the surface, I couldn't get past the editing errors and the plethora of grammatical mistakes that made this book so difficult to like. On page 32, the narrative ends in midsentence at the bottom of the page and never is finished. What happened? The authors had an interesting story going, and I wanted to know how that story ended when it simply disappeared never to return. In addition, whoever researched the book fell down on the job by incorrectly identifying Andre Riddick (who wore #10) as Roderick Rhodes (who wore #12) on page 158. The last two lines of the first column on page 155 read, "Caption goes here like this. Caption goes here like this. Caption goes" What in the world happened to editing? And the frequent misuse of commas? Don't get me started! The authors of this book did a solid job with their material, and there are scores of good photographs throughout the work, but the lapses in editing were a huge distraction from start to finish. It's unfortunate that the "little" mistakes (and there are many) combine to take away so completely from a book that had so much potential.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Everything the Reader From Henderson, KY Said is True, September 19, 1999
By A Customer
Well, when you're right, you're right! This book was a gift to me, though I have to admit that I probably would have bought it for myself, anyway. Like the Henderson reader, I have read both this book and Lonnie Wheeler's. If you're a Blue Blood UK fan, read Lonnie Wheeler's book! This book was tough to stumble through because of the terrible editing. And each example given in the other review is dead on; what a mess! Still, I too have to credit the authors for their attempt; it's too bad the editing was so shoddy. This book is a big disappointment if you read it. On the other hand, if all you want is pictures, it's pretty good.
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