Friday Night Lights (Book Review)

Friday Night Lights

By H.G. Bissinger

Book Reviewed by: Richard Cowger


In the book Friday Night Lights their are many things that happen in these kids high school life's other than just playing football under the lights on Friday night. Odessa is in Texas which is already known to be a big football state. For Permian High school in Odessa, football is a way of life. Permian's tradition is to win and winning state is always the goal every year. But when their star pupil Bobbie Miles goes down with a knee injury the season seems to have been taken right away from coach Garry Gaines. The panthers seem to struggle without Bobbie until the second string running back Comer starts to shine, and helps carry Permian to a winning season along with all the other players. This book is a great sports story and should be read by all football fans everywhere, especially high school football players.

I choose this book because i am a football player and i figured i would be interested in the topic, Plus i have seen the movie and it was great and i wanted to follow it up with the book to see if the movie was accurate with the book. After reading the book i would have to say the movie was very close to the book. Universal Pictures did a good job making this amazing high school football story into a full-length-film. I also choose this book because i knew that i would be able to relate to a lot of things that would happen in this book. And after reading it i have been able to relate my life to a lot of things that these boys have gone through.

I ended up liking this book a lot and i recommend this book to any football player or just people that enjoy the game of football. It has every detail into what a high school football player goes through both on and off the field. So over all i recommend this book is is worth you time to read.