Friday Night Lights review by Kyle Gagne

 Kyle Gagne
January 23, 2013
Reading Writing Workshop
Block 4 Day 1

Book Review

            The book I read for this class was the book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger. Friday Night Lights is a book that tells the story of one football team in a small city in Odessa, Texas. It talks about the city and what it was like to live there and it also tells you about the type of people that are living in the city and how close they are to each other even though there living in a city. It also talks about the Permian high school football team. It tells you the history and how the team is doing currently in the book also. The main characters in this book are running back Boobie Miles, quarterback Mike Winchell, fullback Don Bilingsley, and head coach Gary Gains. The book is based mostly around these characters.

            There were a ton of things that I liked about the book and I thought that were really cool about the book also. There were also some things in the book that I did not like as much. The things that I really liked about this book are that it gives you a background on Permian High School.  It tells you what it was like to live in a small close city like Odessa. I also like how the book gives you some background on what the football team means to the school and the city and it also talks about what has happened with the football teams in the years past. This makes the book easier to understand with all the background information that it gives you at the beginning of the book. Some of the things that I did not like about the book or confused me are that the book is split into sections and then in the sections there are chapters and that can get confusing after a while. I also think that the book does not really focus on one thing. It just keeps going from one topic to another which can also get confusing. I thought it was a good book and it gave a lot of information on the football team and the school.

            I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read sports story’s and basically get a separate story on to that. The separate story is the story about that town and how much the town loves their football team. I would defiantly recommend this to anyone who is interested in reading nonfiction sports stories. The age group I would recommend this book for are kids/ teenagers who are 13 years or older. The reason I said 13 is because there is some language used in it that parents might not want their kids reading. Also the book is very long and it talks about a lot of things and it gets little kids lost if they were trying to read this book. I would rate this book 3 out of 4 stars because I think that it does a great job describing things in the city and on the football team but i feel that some parts are boring and not a lot is going on. This book is probably one of the best sports books I have ever read and I think that people who like to read about football and sports in general will love this book.