Friday Night Lights in Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge

Dec 04, 2010 Jessica rated it liked it

Shelves: nonfiction

It probably would have taken me the rest of my life to finish this book if I didn't have a library deadline hanging over my head. It's not that the story isn't interesting, and Bissinger is a good writer, but it's told in a very journalistic way that keeps the characters at arm's length so that you never really feel invested in them or even get to know them well enough to remember which one is which. I kept having to thumb back to figure out who people were because they'd be introduced, not ment ...more

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Oct 05, 2012 Kim rated it really liked it

Shelves: nonfiction, history-social, sports, 2012

I've never seen the show, although I'm told it's pretty good. But small town high school football is something that kind of intrigues me. I went to a high school where football was nowhere near as important as it is in these towns, and it's interesting to see how the emphasis on football shapes the character of these places. One might say, warps the character, to some extent, too. ...more

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Jun 10, 2012 Renata rated it liked it

Shelves: grownup, nonfiction

So, I obviously only picked this up because of my love of Friday Night Lights the show, and I only got into FNL the show because so many people insisted that it didn't matter that I didn't care about football. (And also because of my undying crush on Kyle Chandler.) Anyway. This, I think, is a little more football-involved? And I cannot stress how little I care about football. But it's still really fascinating. I admire Bissinger's tone... observing everything that's totally effed-up in the town ...more

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Oct 20, 2013 Samantha rated it liked it

Shelves: 2014

An in depth look at a small town in Texas where life revolves around football. Parts of this book were interesting, but there was an awful lot of the book that wasn't about football. I didn't really get a sense of the town's passion for football, and the author chose some odd placements to explain a character's back story. Not a huge fan of the book. And they completely skipped over the part where Landry kills a guy and then hides the body... ...more

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Sep 26, 2008 Stephanie rated it liked it · review of another edition

I didn't actively dislike this book, but I had a really hard time imagining the lives of the people in it. The racial tension (or rather, situation, there didn't seem to be much tension, people just existed in their divided world, for the most part) was depressing and the lack of ... something.

I loved the movie, but the characters in the book weren't nearly as likeable. ...more

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