Fall River Dreams: A Team's Quest for Glory, A Town's Search for Its Soul

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Summary: Fall River Dreams: A Team's Quest for Glory
Review: I grew up in Fall River and graduated from Durfee High in 1976. This book was so accurate in its descriptions of the city, the schools, the people, it was amazing! Our high schools days revolved around Tues and Sat night basketball games in the old Armory. The basketball players were idolized, the cheerleader were envied. I always had such ambivilant feelings about growing up in Fall River and this book really helped me to understand many of my feelings and why I left and barely looked back. I now have three sons and it made me put the whole "sports" thing in more perspective. There IS life beyond Fall River and basketball!

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Summary: Compelling Story
Review: I really enjoyed reading this book, and I am not a big basketball fan. The characters of this book really draw you in, and it makes you realize the pressures that young star athletes live with (and how fast they grow up.) Chris Herron as the lead character of this book is so interesting, it is almost hard to believe he was not created by the author. The highs and lows Herron experiences, and how Reynolds describe them make you feel like you were competing as well. If you can look past the boring 'history of Fall River' sequences at the beginning, you will enjoy this book and recommend it to a friend.

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Summary: Basketball, basketball, and more basketball.
Review: I thought this book was really boring and pointless. Who cares about basketball? Of course some people like the sport and all but this book was just so boring! I would only recommend this book to people who are obsessed with BASKETBALL!

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Summary: fall river dreams
Review: i thought this was a pretty good book. as a sports fan, i did get bored at times with all the descriptions of the city and it seemed repetitive after awhile. but overall, i did find myself not wanting to put the book down in order to find out what the outcome was going to be for durfee and chris herron.

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Summary: The Great White Hope
Review: I was playing high school basketball for Beverly High (MA) when this book came out. Chris Herren had just graduated from Durfee and we all idolized him to some degree. He was a white kid from the burbs, like me, but was a headcase, like me. Everything I dreamed of growing up, Chris Herren became. I read that book right when the state tournament was about to start. We were on our way to play Boston Latin, and I was reading it on the bus while I listened to Wu Tang. It inspired me. ... We ended upupsetting Boston Latin at the buzzer. Beverly's first tourney win in20 years. The book gave me a story to compare my own life to becauseit paralleled it in so many ways. I wish Chris Herren the best with the Celtics. All the white kids in Boston our proud of him.

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Summary: a good read, but somewhat hollow
Review: I've been a fan of Chris Herren for a while and finally got around to reading this book the other day. It's a very good story that was told with an intriguing approach, but I ultimately found the actual writing somewhat lackluster. If you want to know more about Chris Herren and some of the particulars of how big-time high school basketball players are recruited I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this book, but if you don't have any particular interest in Mr. Herren, check out _Maggie Cassidy_ by Jack Kerouac instead as it deals with many of the same themes and the dynamics of the two stories are very similar in quite a few ways.

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Summary: A Complex Book That Succeeds on Many Levels
Review: If you just want the thrills of a succession of basketball games, look elsewhere. But if you want to understand a driven, contemporary high school basketball team from an educationally and economically deprived city with an exceptional basketball tradition, this is a book not to be missed. The author was everywhere, from living rooms to locker rooms to practice courts to games, yet he succeeded in keeping himself invisible in the book. The result is, you are there--for the wise-cracks, the needling, the kids mouthing off to the coach, the college recruiters chasing one of the finest high school players in New England. For a former Fall Riverite, as I am, it's a must-read. For others, there's a lot to be learned here about the thinking and attitudes of the current generation and its interaction with the older generations. If you like to read a book and forget it, this isn't the one for you. Any thoughtful person who reads it will be pondering the problems it presents long after it's back in the bookcase.

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Summary: Read Friday Night Lights
Review: If you want to read a book by a guy who writes a daily column in the Providence Journal thinking he may have found the next Michael Jordan, and following him around a High School then this is it. Bill (...)Reynolds doesn't really know if the kid he follows around is going to the NBA, but he sure wants him too.
Its like he thought that the kid was a sure fire 'can't miss' prospect and he was the guy who was gonna sell a million copies of a book on his hs years.
The cover references ' a teams quest for glory and a towns search for its soul' its neither. Its a boring book that could have been synopsized in two of Bunky's daily columns or one of his numerous appearances on local sports talk radio in Rhode Island talking about basketball. The sad thing is basketball is all that there is in his life. His subjects don't have the same passion. Someone incredibly enthusiastic about kids who have more talent but less desire than the author just dilutes the reader.
If you want a great story about a town then read 'Friday Night Lights' about HS football in Texas. This is a story of a basketball team in Fall River Mass. that follows the same route as Friday Night Lights. It can be boring and long winded. Fall River is dying as a city and the book unfortunately dies pretty near the start.

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Summary: Read Friday Night Lights
Review: If you want to read a book by a guy who writes a daily column in the Providence Journal thinking he may have found the next Michael Jordan, and following him around a High School then this is it. Bill (...)Reynolds doesn't really know if the kid he follows around is going to the NBA, but he sure wants him too.
Its like he thought that the kid was a sure fire 'can't miss' prospect and he was the guy who was gonna sell a million copies of a book on his hs years.
The cover references ' a teams quest for glory and a towns search for its soul' its neither. Its a boring book that could have been synopsized in two of Bunky's daily columns or one of his numerous appearances on local sports talk radio in Rhode Island talking about basketball. The sad thing is basketball is all that there is in his life. His subjects don't have the same passion. Someone incredibly enthusiastic about kids who have more talent but less desire than the author just dilutes the reader.
If you want a great story about a town then read 'Friday Night Lights' about HS football in Texas. This is a story of a basketball team in Fall River Mass. that follows the same route as Friday Night Lights. It can be boring and long winded. Fall River is dying as a city and the book unfortunately dies pretty near the start.

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Summary: Fall River Dreams
Review: my book is called fall river dreams. it is about a players cahnce for glory but his way to getting it.but first i havent read alot of the book so i dont know much but ill tell ya what i know. the main characters are chris herren,skippy karam,mike herren and bob dempsey. chris is the star basketball player for durfee high who went to boston college but then transfered to fresno and now plays for boston celtics.skip karam is his high school coach. mike herren is his older brother who was a star for durffe and went to bc but then droped out because he liked to party to much. bob dempsey was the assitant coach at durfee high.

dylan dunne