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: A compelling and emotional book
Summary: 5 Stars
As I began to read this book, I began to notice a similarity between this high school's football team and my own high school's football team. I am not that avid of a football fan, but as I read this book, I found myself growing a greater respect for the sport as well as the players involved in the game. This book takes you on the journey of one teams losses, and victories, and the importance and impact this sport has on the community as a whole. I found this book quite hard to put down, and highly recommend it to all teenagers. It was a simple reading book packed with loads of information including entertaining and emotional. I give this book 10 thumbs up!!Book Review: This book changed my life
Summary: 5 Stars
I found this book totally by accident. I am a New Yorker born and raised. I am from an area where football does not get as much attention as other city games like baseball or basketball. In the fall of 1990 I found myself in a small bookstore in an even smaller college town in Texas. As I was killing time waiting for my girlfriend to register for classes I picked up this book and didn't put it down until it was finished. I never thougt there was anybody out there with the same love for the game as me. After reading this book I realized that I may have been lucky to not have to grow up in a town where a high school sport means so much. But then again I have to admit that I was extremely jealous of all the things I missed out on never having the chance to be a part of something so special. After reading this book I made some life decisions such as following up on my impulse feelings. Every year since I have taken atleast one trip to a major high school football game. This has allowed me to travel all acroos the country doing what I truly love to do. Which is evaluate high school talent and really absorb myself into the culture that is high school football. This book may have had a hand in saving a dead end kid from the Bronx with a love for the game only matched by the size of the state of Texas.Book Review: Lights puts into words what few can ever understand
Summary: 5 Stars
Having grown up in West Texas, and having interviewed Gary Gaines as a reporter for my high school paper, when he coached at our rival high school, Abilene High School, I can find no better book regarding football in this part of the world. However, this book is about much more than football. By using the extremities of Odessa and football, it helps expose the root of racial and social problems in American society. This book is a good read--on any level.
Book Review: American Dream as Seductive Lie
Summary: 5 Stars
Live with the dust, lost jobs, and brooding consciousness of a Texas city down on its luck. When things seem like they will get no bleaker, experience the euphoric pride collectively exploding from 20,000 fans rooting for the Permian High football team on a friday night. After this
adreneline fueled flight into the rarified atmosphere of misguided hopes, prepare to come crashing down to the world of dashed dreams, lost purpose, and the inevitability of the Uncertain Future. ---- Bissinger weaves a powerful, yet true narrative which documents both the joys and pains of a city
psychically connected with one of its high school football teams. He shows how football, much like the boom and bust turmoil of Odessa's own economy, holds out dazzling promises -- only to snatch them away in unguarded moments. Here you will meet vulnerable yet determined kids who willfully give their mental and physical souls to a sports program run amok. This is not only an indictment of one city's obsession with school sports, it is an exemplar of the American Dream as a seductive lie. ---- *Friday Night Lights* takes readers into the locker room, all right -- but in those confines it defines the bankrupt nature of our nation's obsession with instant heroes and the allure of winning at all costs. At the same time, the book manages to
convey the seductive power of high school football by re-creating it, coaxing and then shoving the reader into the frenzied excitement. You will never fully understand how awfully and frightfully "American" the game of football can be until you read this exceptional book. (Soon to be a motion picture directed by Ron Howard, if I understand correctly)Book Review: Outstanding!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book was simply a masterpiece. It brought out the emotion of the game of football, the players, and the town that supports the game and the players. At times I found myself thinking I was really back in the locker room getting ready for a game. This was just an outstanding book