Capture The Krzyzewskiville Tales Penned By Aaron Dinin Physical Book

read, but today's Kville residents have no idea how good they have it, Now get off

my lawn! : Smug, overwrought and overwritten, pretentious reworking of the Canterbury Tales into tales of Kville, the tent city that grows outside Cameron Indoor Stadium at Duke University during basketball season.


My opinion may be shaped by my dislike for the school and my jealous response to a young Duke graduate having a book published on such a thin premiseby the press of the university it lauds from beginning to end!.
Aaron does a really good job of capturing the college experience, I would think this would be really enjoyable for Duke alumni, Overly precious and slightly pretentious, Only for diehard Duke fans or diehard Chaucer fans, Recent Duke University graduate Aaron Dinin has produced an entertaining, imaginative look at Krzyzewskiville, the tent city named after Duke University's head men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski Shashefski.
A unique Duke tradition, Krzyzewskiville is used to determine which students are admitted into key games.
Taking Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as his model, Dinin has created characters who narrate their semifictionalized talesby turns reverent, bawdy, and humorousto enlighten readers about this cherished institution.
So the story begins. On a wintry night in Durham, North Carolina, writes Dinin, twelve students huddle under the meager protection of a nylon tent.
They have little in common except the sacrosanct tradition that has brought them together for the past month.
Before the sun next sets, they will anoint themselves in blue and white paint and enter nearby Cameron Indoor Stadium to worship at the altar of Blue Devils basketball.
In the meantime, they abide in Krzyzewskiville,

A stranger enters the tent, a respected sportswriter, and suggests that the tenters pass the hours until the next tent check by telling stories of Krzyzewskiville.
Like Chaucers pilgrims, the students compete to tell the best tale, They report on ribald tenting exploits, relate a dream in which Duke basketball players and coaches test a fans loyalty, debate the rationality of tenting as a way of allocating students tickets, and describe the spontaneous tent city that sprang up one summer when their beloved “Coach K” was offered a job elsewhere.
This storytelling competition creates a loving portrait of the complex rules and tribal customs that make up the rich community and loyal fans that are Krzyzewskiville.


Mickie Krzyzewski, Coach Ks wife and a familiar courtside figure at Duke basketball games, has contributed a foreword praising the “love, commitment, and ownership” of the citizens of Krzyzewskiville.
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