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Summary: Friday Night Lights
Review: The Odessa Permian Panthers are the winningest high school football team in the state of Texas. For their 1988 season they have one goal in mind, a state championship. H.G. Bissinger recounts their journey for the state title. This book gives one a view on high school football that one could only experience on the fiels or in the locker room. Football is the only thing that keeps this run down oil town going. Therefore the town treats the football players like heros that couldn't do anything wrong, except lose. On Friday nights people in this town come to witness the most praised things in Texas, high school football.
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Summary: Columbus Community
Review: I thought this book showed an excellent example of why Texas is one of the worst states academically. All of the football players got a automatic pass. In most cases they didn't even go to class. I don't think that is the best thing for them because when they are through with football, they will have no future. A good example of that is Boobie, he injured his knee and didn't have any education for a good job. I believe it is good to have team spirit and a town the supports you, but school should come first. This book also has racism and discrimination it. Permian was mostly white and Carter was mostly black and they use a few choice words for each other about their race. The other students are discriminated by the football players because the student's have to go to school and do their work to earn their grades when the football players don't even have to show up. Dispite the way the events that took place, I thought this was an excellent book and I would recommend it to anyone who likes football.
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Summary: WOW! This is a great book for the fan of football.
Review: Passion and glory is the name of the game for Texas football of Permian High School. This is a true story about high school football where people at Permian High School take the game seriously. Either in a big win or great loss, the team stays together I happiness or defeat. Any one who likes football and the way people act towards the game will enjoy Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger. I like this book because of the football action and the life of high school athletes. First, I enjoy the connections between Friday Night Lights and "Remember the Titans", they are both about high school football. In both the book and the movie, the black and white players come together in the same school to play football. In the book, the blacks and the whites at first do not like each other. In practice, for example, all the blacks would go to one side, and the whites would have the other side. In the movie, when they were leaving for training camp, all the blacks went on one side of the bus, and the whites went on the other. The new head coach is a black man named Herman Boone, who brings the blacks and whites together who really do not want to sit together. Then Coach Boone split them up so the blacks and the whites had to sit together. Also, in both the movie and the book, they had two captains, one black and the other white. Many tragedies happened between both the movie and the book. In the book, the black captain, named Boobie Miles seriously injured his knee and was out for the season. In the movie, the white captain got hit by a truck and paralyzed so he could never play again. Batz 2 Second, many differences were in the book and the movie also. The differences are very big from one another. For example, in the movie the blacks and the whites pair up to get to know each other. In the book, if anyone did not get along, no one would play. Another difference can be team unity. In the movie, the team, at first, does not get along. Then after the camp, they turn into friends and unite with each other. In the book, they unite but then at the end they kind of go back to the black and white way. In the movie, the black and white players got to see what the other liked, as far as music, personality, family, and what the wanted out of football. In the book, they did not care if the players were dead or alive. To sum up, I like Friday Night Lights, by H.G. Bissinger. Anyone who enjoys football will love to read this kind of book. The excitement and trauma will make no one ever want to put the book down. Those who are not fans of football will still like this book because the book is not just about football. The novel has parts just about normal people and the way they have to deal with many different situations.
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Summary: Friday Night Lights
Review: Firday Night Lights is a story about a highschool football team in Odessa Texas. Permian High was recently desegregated and now the town is being pulled together by the high school football team. This is a classic sports book. If you are a football fan and understand the game then I suggest that you get a hold of this book and read it from cover to cover. I promise that it will keep you completely interested. This is one of those books that you dont want to put down even if the world is falling down around you. If you are not a sports fan and are saying to yourself that you dont think that this is a book for you then think again. Not only is there the aspect of football in thsi novel, but it also tells stories on life. The town in going through many racial problems. Odessa is almost spilt down the middle. The rich white people live on one side and the poor blacks live in the run down part. The town is seperated by a big cement wall. It is interesting to read how football can impact a town to the point where they forget about their race and color and even go on to tear down the wall. This is a great book of many aspects. I highly recommend it to sports fans and any other person that would fine the racial aspect appealing.
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Summary: Friday Night Lights
Review: I thought that Friday Night Lights was a great book that can relate to not only football players, but basically to anyone. The book begins by telling how the town is behind and supports he high school team. The football players get ladies to run around and run errands for them. As the book goes on it follows the team thourought their season an all the injuries and distractions each player has to deal with.
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Summary: An classic piece of writing and story-telling
Review: This book is not your typical sports diary. Yes, this classic work chronicles the year of a high school football team. But this book is more about the crazed culture of high school football in Texas, the jock culture in high school, racism, classcism, poverty, and the abuse of high school kids all in the name of prep sports.Bissinger crafts the story well: explaining the fanaticism of high school football in Odessa by first explaining the history of the town and how they came to cling on to something as trivial as a bunch of 18-year olds -- many who will not play the game at 19 -- playing football. For many who are 25, 30, 40, 50 and older, it's quite odd that Permian High School football takes center stage in their lives. I, too, am a sports fanatic, but Permian fans are over the top. Bissinger captures all this and more. It's a riveting piece, and should be a must-read for anyone who just loves great story-telling and journalism.
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Summary: Amazing book
Review: This is truly a classic for sports fans or any high school athlete or former athlete who ever took there high school years of playing seriously. You can feel the passion the town has for the team and the passion the team has for the town.
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Summary: Eye-Opening Perspective
Review: Exploring not only the world of Texas High School Football, but the sociological forces at work in a small Texas town, "Friday Night Lights" is eye-opening and engaging. This work really has the town and the school as its main character, and the author does a fantastic job of bringing the reader through the personality and inner conflicts of this character. The football focus is not as heavy as one might think. It is enough to keep sports fans (like me) interested, but this book is so much more than that. As a high school coach myself, this story really hit home. I recommend this to anyone. You will enjoy it!
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Summary: So much more than football
Review: Friday Night Lights is not just another book for SPORTS LOVERS. This novel written by Bissinger is so much more. Behind the sweat and blood of this high school football team lies the brutal facts of Odessa, Texas. Sure the book gives a play by play look into life on the football field but it also an eyeopener to many other important issues. For example, the economic status of the town, the social values of the people, racism and prejucies of the town, and the real truth about high school education for athletes. This novel revolves around much more than a pigskin and tells no more than the truth about the same issues that have become problems for every "old-fashioned" town in America.
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Summary: Life imitates sports
Review: Like all great books about sports, "Friday Night Lights" is really about life. Specifically life in a football-crazed small town in Texas. But before any of us outsiders start feeling superior, we should reflect that the book is really about America and the way we overvalue athletic ability. The people of the town felt betrayed when they realized that author H.G.Bissinger was going to tell the whole story, warts and all. But he has written a masterful social history and one that has many implications beyond the gridiron.
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