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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
THIS BOOK IS THE BEST, March 19, 1999
By A Customer
I love UCLA and hate USC and this book tells eveyone why me and other people feel this way
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28 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Save the 5 bucks; apply it to UCLA education, September 30, 1999
By A Customer
A few words come to mind as I draw together my thoughts on this book: (1) waste, (2) of, (3) money. As a student at UCLA, I can't understand why anyone would waste paper trying to defame USC. Yes, that's right, I am a BRUIN, and I am not ashamed to say that USC is a prestigious institution worthy of international respect. A book of this caliber simply brings the interschool rivalry down to a tasteless level, one which I do not believe students at UCLA or USC wish to operate on.Another thing bothered me about this book. Too much of it was devoted to attacking the financial background of USC students, implying that wealth and brain size are inversely proportional. One CAN be smart AND wealthy at the same time. My best friend from high school (who happened to be Valedictorian) had a perfect GPA and a 1590 on his SATs. He was accepted at Harvard, Yale, and everywhere else he applied. He now goes to USC. Simply put, this book is neither cohesive nor cogent; purchasing it would be a waste of money, and reading it would be a waste of time. Go out and meet some Trojans for yourself, then decide whether or not you really hate USC.
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7 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Pandering Rehashing of Cliches, September 16, 1999
By A Customer
Anyone who attended either UCLA or USC knows the worn out cliches that each school perpetuates about the other. Marketers have capitalized on this for years, e.g. T-shirt promoters printing shirts that reflect favoritism for UCLA and derision for USC, and vice versa. The author of this useless piece (and I do mean PIECE...) is no different from those T-shirt makers who pander to both sides in pursuit of the almighty dollar. Have you noticed the companion piece about hating UCLA? Save your money and skip both volumes.However, one cliche that has proven true again and again is that USC students can only point to their parents' wealth as a means of compensating for their own lack of intelligence. Somebody ought to tell these USC folks how embarassing it is to constantly brag about having been born with a silver spoon in one's mouth. For many USC folks, an entry for "303 Reasons I Hate UCLA" might be these four words: "They didn't accept me." Check out www.usnews.com and see where UCLA and USC REALLY rank. The fact that USC folks boast about buying a Yugo of an education at Mercedes-Benz prices only shows how truly unintelligent they are. No, Trojans, GPA 4.0 and SAT 1600 are not new models of European automobiles. If Finebaum were to understand the true essence of why UCLA people laugh at (but do not really hate) USC people, this type of sentiment would have been included in his book. Instead, he is simply an opportunist, an outsider looking to cash in on the traditional (ahem) "rivalry," which is being dominated (academically, on the court, and on the gridiron) by the Bruins.
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