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: 4 Stars
Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger is the miraculous story of a poor unheard of town in Texas that wants to win the high school football state championship. This town, Odessa, Texas, does nothing but play football, and football games are their biggest events. The whole town shows up to watch their football games under the lights. This novel shows the life of one town and football team as they persevere through injuries and team disunity, through thick and thin, as they journey to win the state champion ship in the 1988-1989 football season for the Permian-Panthers of Odessa, Texas. This is also an account of the town of Odessa's history. This book shows how Odessa came to be, and the struggles of the town through racism and problems such as not wanting to desegregate the schools, and the quick changes from economic prosperity to depression with the oil companies, and how they continually dealt with it. This book is the story of one town and their football team in their struggles together to win the football state championship together.
I have always been a sport-fanatic and saw the Friday Night Lights movie, and then said that I must read the book, and I am currently watching the television show. The book was very good and added a lot of things the movie did not have in it, such as a history of the town. I liked the movie better because it was just the action and no other miscellaneous things added to it, whereas in the book you hit a lot of "slow spots" for me when reading about the town, rather than just the action of the football team and football games. Also, because I saw the movie beforehand it partially spoiled the book for me, because I knew what the end result would be in most points of suspense. The book does provide exciting accounts of all of the Permian Panthers football games in their quest to win state. It also shows the struggle of a town through economic and discriminatory problems as it comes together through one thing- football. This reminded me of another book I recently read: Inherit the Wind by Robert E. Lee and Jerome Lawrence in which the court systems must also be used to settle very controversial issues in the town about the school systems. In Friday Night Lights those issues are of school desegregation, whereas in Inherit the Wind they are of teaching the evolution theory. This book shows you that if you have a dream you should stick with it, no matter what and pursue that dream, because even though you may have some struggles with it no matter what the odds against you, you can most likely achieve that dream. It also shows you the sacrifices needed for true dedication to something and how far people are willing to go for what they love in life. I would rate this book a 4? stars out of five, and recommend it to kids who love sports, especially football, and adults who have a dream that they would like to achieve in order to see the struggles that you may be put through to achieve that dream.
Book Review: Friday Night Lighta
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this book for my 14 year old son to read for his independent reading journal in English. He had seen the movie and loved it. He is hooked on the book now - hasn't missed an English reading journal yet!Book Review: Extremely Shallow
Summary: 1 Stars
I am shocked how bad this book was. The author is obsessed with racism yet makes sterotypes out of the folks who live in the town. He comes across as a lightweight elitist who does not have the skill to write a book on such a complex issue. He repeats himself over and over again and never really captures anything below the surface. It is not surprising that so many loved this book as it does not tax the brain and patronizes those too foolish to realize they are being patronized. Plus it is so so boring.Book Review: "A town, a team, and a dream"
Summary: 5 Stars
When I picked up this book Friday Night Lights I knew I was going to love reading it! My best friend Jamie read this book and said it was even better than the movie. Friday Night Lights is one of my favorite movies but being able to read the story, rather than watch it was amazing.
In Odessa Texas, Football is more than just a High School sport, it's a life style. They Live, Sleep, Breathe football all leading up to the State Championship. There was so much perpetration, determination and strive for this sport. Everyone knew the players of the Odessa Texas Permian Panthers (MOJO). For example: Mike Winchell, Don Billingsley, Boobie Miles, Brian Chavez, Chris Comer, Ivory Christian, and of course Coach Garry Gaines. This was truly "A town, a team, and a dream."
I would recommend this book to all football fans, young teens, and adults. (This book has some minor profanity.) It is an amazing storyline! I would definitely tell all my friends about this book.
Book Review: Friday Night Lights
Summary: 5 Stars
There are many books that were written, but my favorite has to be "Friday Night Lights". This story is about a successful team from Odessa, Texas named the Permian Panthers aka (MOJO). They were the best team around West Texas and it was a lot of talk that they might win the state championship. They had all the players and the crowd to help them win. But they had an all-star offensive with players like Boobie Miles, Mike Wicthell, and Jerrod McDougal. But the first game of the season something really bad had happened to Boobie Miles one of the all star players. He had gotten hurt and they did not know that Jerrod McDougal could play. They had to count on him anyway to win. They won there second game. I can't leave out defensive players like Brian Chavez, and Ivory Christian. They excellent players and they led their team to the state championship of 5a football. Where they had to play the Dallas Carter Cowboys. Man were they big. They played a tough and great game. They came up short for state championship with the score being 34-28. I would give this book 5 stars. Thanks for reading my review.