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: Great as a Social Commentary or a Sports Story
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great story. There is plenty of sporting drama, but what makes the book great is the insight into the obsession with a high school football team in a place that didn't offer much else to its people. You will end up really caring about them, in spite of their questionable traits. At the same time, the author does not gloss over the negative aspects of life in Odessa. He writes this story to examine the culture, not just to chronicle the events of a football season.
Bissinger does a great job of portraying both the positives and the negatives of the obsession with high school football. He gives real insight into these people, and is sensitive to the effects of their choices on various members of the community. The sad state of race relations, and the effect of the obsession with winning on the coaches, the players, and their families are major points.
The saddest part of the story is life after football for high school boys; most of them are has-beens at 18. It must be tough to peak that early in life, to go from having 20,000 people living vicariously through you to wondering what to do next at 18 years old. You can see that Bissinger truly cares about these people, especially the kids.
Not exactly an uplifting story, but that's what sets this book apart. Highly recommended.
Book Review: High School Football Fever
Summary: 5 Stars
In the book Friday Night Lights the super star Boobie Miles gets injured in the beginning of the season. It teaches a good lesson because they go to the stat champion ship with out their star player. I also like Friday Night Lights because when ever there is a game. The whole town goes to the game.
All the eyes were on Boobie. He was getting Scholarships left and right. (Penn State, USC, Texas) The Permian Panther were killing a team. Boobie already had at least 5 touchdowns. So they put Boobie in. What do you know. He got injured. All the eyes were on him. He had got a helmet right to the knee. He limped off the field. The whole stadium was quite. All what was going threw coach Gains mind was; What I'm going to do my whole season is done. Just about everyone was thinking that. He was out for the rest of the season. But the team kept there the composer. They lost the first game without Boobie. it wasn't looking good. But the stayed calm, and went on to the championship against Dallas Carter.
I also love the book Friday Night Lights because whenever their is a game, everyone in the town goes to the game. Its almost like the town shuts down. Every game is jammed packed, and always in for a good game. Its no other sport than football in Odessa. Every shop in the town was closed. All the town signs say GONE TO THE GAME. I which I lived there. I love football.
I hope you will read this intense high action book. You will love it.
Book Review: Running Scared
Summary: 4 Stars
I believe this was a terrific book to read. It had lots of action action and surprises. This book is also a page-turner because you keep on wanting to turn the pages to find out if the team wins the game. It's also a page-turner it has a lot of foreshadowing. This is a wonderful book and anyone who loves football and plays quarterback will enjoy this book.Book Review: Friday Night Lights
Summary: 4 Stars
If your into sports stories that have underdogs pulling out the close games then this book is for you. In the story it's just not about football for this high school team in Odessa, Texas. Its a way of life for these guys and the whole town gets involved. But there is more to the story then just going out there every friday night playing a football game. Its about a group of boys fighting through the hardships of the season with their best player being hurt. It's about how the new coach has to perform and play at the level that the town wants him to play at or his job is gone. The book Friday Night Lights is a very inspirational book and i recommend that this book be read by any coach or player in any sport that does not believe in hope. Because this story here will make them see what a team can do when they lose the key to their team and how they rebound back from that loss. This book shows the outside life of a football player in the small town were the Permian Panthers play. In my mind this book is one of the best and I think sports people from around the U.S. should read it.Book Review: Great Book
Summary: 5 Stars
I really enjoyed reading this book and it really touched me. The story about the Permian Panthers of the 1988 season is a story how only life tells it: Real, emotional and very sad. In my opinion it is a tragic story but it also shows how much sports can give to people and even a whole town. Boobie Miles, Mike Winchell, Don Billingsley... you start to feel for those guys and you will love them. And their dream, painted in a wonderful picture by Bissinger.