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: Proof that the Gridiron dominates small town America
Summary: 5 Stars
This book shows the power, position and importance of a truely American sport in the archytypal American state, Texas. You see how team and town are almost umbilically joined and how the sport is seen as an escape from a dying town. Teenagers live for football, adults live through it. If you're interested in American Football it's good, if you're interested in people it's excellant.Book Review: wow! I knew it would be good but not THIS good!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been looking forward to this book for several yers, since I saw the author on a talk show when the book debuted. It's long been on my list of "Oh, I've been meaning to read that" and when I discovered a copy on a colleague's bookshelf, I borrowed it and finally fufilled that "meant to." I read the book in two days and wished I had read it all those years ago so I could have been recommending it to everyone I know, including my brother (a high school football player). This is a beautifully written book, the kind of non-fiction that turns non-readers into bookworms. What an honest look at football and at America. Don't miss this one.Book Review: THE GREATEST BOOK SINCE THE BIBLE!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is without a doubt one of the greatest books I have ever read. With being a three-year varsity letterman in football at my high school, I can relate to some of the pressures and hardships that the players at Permian high had. No one can really understand the excitement of playing under the lights on Friday night until you are out on the field lined up against someone as exited as much as you are. Some of the problems the players face are not just faced when you are out on the field, whether you are on the field or not you face problems everyday of your life, like whether to go to the party on Saturday night or go out with your friends and stay out of trouble. When Boobie got hurt they just kind of left him out of everything, and that was not very cool he was probably one of the best players on the team. When I got hurt my coaches helped me get back to my full potential as soon as I could and that is how it should be in every program. I would highly recommend this book to anyone I think this book should be a required book to read in class.Book Review: Even if you didn't play high school football, READ THIS BOOK
Summary: 5 Stars
As a three year member and starter of the varsity squad of my High School in Chesapeake Virginia, the stories from this book were all too familiar. The small Virginia town in which I played was similiar to that of Odessa, Canton, Penn Hills, and others across the country where High School football is the main focus of attention and entertainment. This book made me think back to all of the great times I had, the great friends I made, and the many memories that I will never forget. Bissinger brought out the many "behind the scenes" views of the sport. All the problems and events that happen in the Permian locker room, coaches office, halls, classrooms, and in the lives of the players, occur everyday in schools everywhere. On the bus ride home from the very last game of my senior year..a tough last minute loss, giving our school its first losing record in 25 years at 4-6. I thought about the two state championships we won in the two years before, and why it had to end like it did, and I thought about the blood, sweat, and tears that we have all spilled on the playing fields. As we pulled away I realized that I'd probably never step onto a football field to play again and that these days are now behind me forever. Then, like so many of the seniors on the bus with me, and the thousands more around the country...I cried.
I sometimes forget why I played football in high school. Three years after my final game I bought this book and read it. It then became all clear to me, and I recalled why I played. I laughed a little, and maybe even cried a little, and you will too.
Book Review: Not only a good book about football, but life in general.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an excellent book about a town that is torn apart by the oil bust and how they all share the glory of High School Football. It is a really good book that made me step back and look at my values.