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Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
by H. G. Bissinger

This book was a great way to experience a land I have never visited: West Texas. The author spent a year in Odessa, Texas to examine the town's crazed focus on the high school football program. The picture he paints is not pretty ... quite bleak, actually. My wife really enjoyed this book as well; it's more than a male-oriented sports book, but rather an interesting study on how an environment influences one's values and worldview.

And yes, I'd like to see the movie.