Friday Night Lights By H.G Bissenger(first half)

This stunning novel is about a small town in Texas called Odessa in which high school Football is what the town relies on. Everyone goes to the games and everyones lives revolve around the team. When the team wins, all is well, when they loose, chaos breaks out and panic occurs. Although winning or loosing in definhes this small town, and winning states is all that seems to matter, this book is not just about the team, but also the problems with the players, coaches, fans. Great amount of pressures come with this team and sometimes even violence and fights based on the team. This is not a normal high school football team- this is almost a professional team in that every move is critiqued and criticized. So far I love this book. I have seen the movie and the televison show but in my opinion the book is the best because it goes into detail about the struggles of this town. I would reccomend this to a sports fan and football fan who understands the game of football.