Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
by H. G. Bissinger
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Book Reviews of Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
Book Review: friday night lights
Summary: 3 Stars
i thought that this book was just ok. it was just a meteocre book for me. yes, it is a good representation of big town fame and spotlight in a small town. it just did not hit the spot for me thats it.Book Review: heartbeat of America..
Summary: 5 Stars
a fabulous book about the Permian Panthers of Odessa, TX and the MOJO magic that permeates thoughout the city. H.G. Bissinger has found the heartbeat of America in high school football as he writes in fascinating detail the story of the 1988 Permian Panthers. It could be any high school across American as the tradition, passion and politics of local high school football reign over a city that would seemingly have no identity without it's high scool football team. A wonderful book.
Book Review: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are from Odessa the only thing you know is football. This book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger is a best seller and one of the best books I have ever read. If you like football or just want to read a good book this is the one.
The book is about a West Texas football team and a town has "two things football and oil, and there ain't no more oil." and the only thing that saves the town is Permian Panthers. The town has very high expectations for the 1988 team, and most will be watching because their stadium holds 20,000. The school has 5 state championships.
This book shows the quest for the state championship, and one of the biggest reasons why is Booby Miles the team's All-American fullback. Booby job is to run the ball and he is very good at it. Don Billingsley is the team's running back and his hardest task is living up to his father's expectations. Brain Chavez's is the top student and the top linebacker.
The season is turned around when Booby Miles injury his foot and it seems the season is a loss. The coaches and the players have to turn it around and even if they do all roads lead through Carter High the number one team in the state. Do they have it in them to get what they wanted since they were kid, a championship?
Book Review: I'm not even into sports
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a fabulous, thought-provoking book. It's been almost 20 years since the season chronicled, so who knows what Odessa is like today, but so many of the issues of class, race and exploitation are still so relevant. One of my favorite books. Book Review: ... And Much, Much More
Summary: 5 Stars
I picked this up for the football, but fell in love with the clarity of the writing and the depth of feeling displayed by Bissinger for the team, the community, and the way of the world in the late 1980s. (As my roommate would say, "There's a lot going on there.") I loved how everything came to life on the page: the football especially, but also the players, and the economy, and the politics of race and sports and competition and everything that West Texas embodies of the tradition American spirit. The anthropologist in me is intrigued by all the interplay between cultural elements, and, most interestingly, the cohesion that football brings. Fascinating read on so many levels.