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: The Truth
Summary: 5 Stars
H.G. Bissinger tells the tale of the high school football team and it's players. I play football at a Paraclete,a small catholic school in So.Cal. I look at the characters portrayed, the lives portrayed, and I see my own, and those around me. Football wise our school has one back to back state championships and I understand the pressure faced by Boobie, Brian and all the Panthers players every Friday night. The book takes you on a surreal ride, a ride in which you are rooting for a team, but also rooting for yourself in a way. You are rooting for a chance to be on the field, a chance to win, a chance to be home again. Friday Night Lights doesn't tell the tale of the Permian Panthers. It tells the tale of the Paraclete Spirits, the Mater Dei Monarchs, the Carter Cowboys, the Alemany Indians, the entire high school football world. If you play, or once played, or know someone that plays, you have to pick up this book and truly realize what football really is.Book Review: interviewed the author and documented this subject
Summary: 4 Stars
I used this as a reference and interviewed the author several years ago for a short documentary on the subject of Texas and football; found the book to be entertaining in its delivery as well as accurate; obviously it does not cover all sides of the issue but does an admirable job of conveying the emotion behind the zealous committment to football in TexasBook Review: Much More Than Game
Summary: 5 Stars
Pay absolutely no attention to the January 11th reviewer from Michigan. Bissinger's point in Friday Night Lights was never to just tell the story of a football team and ramble about unnecessary issues. FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS IS ABOUT OURSELVES!!!!!!!!!!! HELLO!!!! No we do not all play the game of football but we all do obsess over things as stupid as a football game. And also apprieciate Bissingers style. I know I could never write that well and communicate such imagery. Michigan take another look through the book and then see what you see. If you don't there are many out here who deeply enjoyed it and feel incredibly sorry for you!!!Book Review: Excellent Book for people over age of 15
Summary: 5 Stars
Friday Night Light is an excellent book about much more than just football. HG BISSINGER creates not just a pultizer prize winning book, but a masterpiece that will be past down through my family and yours, for years to come. I found it sad, amusing, touching, and above all, Horrifying!Book Review: Best book i've ever read; next to the bible.
Summary: 5 Stars
Friday Night Lights is a sad but true story about Texas High School football. I will speak from expierence of playing for 3 seasons. Granted not in Odessa, but in Richardson TX, where football is the only ticket in town on a Friday Night. The documentary written by, H.G. Bissinger is exteremely true. The pressure is second to none and the great sacrifice surpasses all. I can relate with every one of the players talked about throughout the book and their feelings towards the game and life itself. No one can understand the story unless they have lived and expierenced it. Friday Night Lights will forever be a classic and a heart-felt documentary