Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
by H. G. Bissinger
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Author: H. G. BissingerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2000-08
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 367
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Book Reviews of Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
Book Review: A terrific book - but a bad read on Kindle!
Summary: 2 Stars
In terms of content, please reference other reviews. I am writing to talk about the way this book reads on the Kindle. I have a feeling that the original pages were scanned and converted to be read as an e-book, instead of typed as its own digital file.
The font is unusual for the Kindle, and is sometimes mis-formatted. The pages take especially long to turn, which goes against Amazon's attempts to "make the Kindle disappear" - it is a constant reminder that you are reading an e-book, as opposed to other books where you forget that you're reading from a screen.
Summary of Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
With frankness and compassion, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist H.G. Bissinger's national bestseller chronicles the dramatic 1988 season of the Permian Panthers--the winningest high school football team in Texas history. Friday Night Lights shows how the town's singleminded devotion to the team shapes the community and inspires (or shatters) the teenagers who wear the uniforms. Featured on "Sixty Minutes." 26 halftones.Secular religions are fascinating in the devotion and zealousness they breed, and in Texas, high school football has its own rabid hold over the faithful. H.G. Bissinger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, enters into the spirit of one of its most fervent shrines: Odessa, a city in decline in the desert of West Texas, where the Permian High School Panthers have managed to compile the winningest record in state annals. Indeed, as this breathtaking examination of the town, the team, its coaches, and its young players chronicles, the team, for better and for worse, is the town; the communal health and self-image of the latter is directly linked to the on-field success of the former. The 1988 season, the one Friday Night Lights recounts, was not one of the Panthers' best. The game's effect on the community--and the players--was explosive. Written with great style and passion, Friday Night Lights offers an American snapshot in deep focus; the picture is not always pretty, but the image is hard to forget.
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