Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by Buzz Bissinger

7 reviews

ebc726's review against another edition

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informative slow-paced

1.0

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kcbatts's review against another edition

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3.5

Football culture isn't always exactly as this story depicts, but it gives a good idea of what it is like in Texas (and I assume other places as well) even 36 years later, especially in small towns and at powehouse schools. 
I found the history of Carter High interesting as my alma mater played them a couple of times when I was a student.
I wish the book kept to a more linear timeline however I was able to keep up and enjoyed the listen. 
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emily_britton's review against another edition

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challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

3.5

 Too much football for my taste. Even so, the issues our country is facing now are so clearly foreshadowed in parts of this sad tale. Those parts were very interesting. Bissinger is a wonderful writer, but the subject was just not one I was that into. 
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stephsbookreviews's review against another edition

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I thought maybe I would enjoy this as I love a scrappy sports story but I listed to 60 pages of this and then gave up. The racism and use of racial slurs was too much, especially because I felt like you were supposed to be rooting for this team and I couldn't root for some of these people. I hope that at some point in the book, there was growth for these individuals but I didn't have the patience or interest to get there.

This book was going to count for a few reading challenges but I didn't read enough of it to feel OK counting it for those.
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britgirlreading's review

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adventurous challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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chaotic_abi's review against another edition

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informative tense slow-paced

2.0

Okay here's the thing, conceptually, I like this book but in reality, I couldn't give less of a shit about football, there was so much info dumping that I zoned out for damn near chapters at a time. I get why this was assigned for English class but I still greatly disliked it.
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danielghurst's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny informative reflective sad slow-paced
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