Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.g. Bissinger Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
Book Review: Bissinger is a liar
Summary: 3 Stars
The only reason that I give it a five is because it is aboutPermian. Otherwise, it deserves a 0. I am an alumnus of Permian High School, and I have read Friday Night Lights several times. Bissinger wrongly portrays Permian to have cheated their way into all of the honors it has received. That is in no way the truth. Permian only has one mark on their record, while there are several schools throughout the state of Texas who have been repremanded by UIL on more than one occasion. When the movie comes out, I think that people will see just exactly what MOJO and Permian are all about. It is not money.Book Review: A true portrayal of West Texas life.
Summary: 4 Stars
I could not put the book down. It brilliantly wove together football, politics, history, and economics. I think Bissinger got an accurate feel for the culture of Odessa. Having been born in Crane and raised in Odessa, I felt that he had discovered and portrayed the people of West Texas, although he overemphasized some topics with a liberal Yankee slant. I graduated from Permian, didn't play football, but was caught up in that culture, and after having moved away, began to see it as a kind of madness or silliness. The book brought back many emotions. It was very well written.Book Review: good book, definately worth reading
Summary: 4 Stars
Overall a good book, but I sympathize with the Permian fans who didn't like what Bissinger did. As an outsider I noticed how Bissinger got really into the games especially the playoff games, he seemed so intense and you could tell he love being apart of it, but when they lost he jumped back out and acted like he couldn't believe how serious these people took football.Book Review: I think Friday Night Lights is a great book and I would
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought that this was the best book that I ever wrote. I think that you really get a good idea on the lives of the players. I give this book 6 out of five.Book Review: God, this is good!
Summary: 4 Stars
I just finished reading this for Sociology class at college, and was very impressed. It goes beyond the usual recounting of a football team into the team's town's search for something to hang their hats on, to claim as their own.Bissinger's style is almost excruciating to read, as he cuts away from the action just when the reader's interest is most peaked, to discuss different people's reactions to side issues involving the team, the town, race relations, and the cult of masculinity and sports built up around the Permian High team. However, this style is exactly what makes the book impossible to put down.
In the end, the 1988 team that Bissinger covers does not win the state championship, but it is revealed in the epilogue that the following year's team did. However, instead of this being joyous, it simply emphasizes the point of exactly how expendable the players that Bissinger covered were to the town and the team.
From beginning to end, this book hits its targets hard.