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Friday Night Lights, by H. G. Bissinger. The book, not the movie, nor the TV series (neither of which I've seen, natch). This was pretty good. Of course, I kinda skimmed all the football strategy stuff ('cause, you know, whatever). Great portrait of life in a small West Texas town, and for that matter, high school in the late 80s. These people, um, have rather skewed priorities when it comes to football - so much so that they were pissing me off after a while, and by the end, I was kind of rooting for them to lose, just so they'd get what they deserved. But then, I'm not really the target audience here at all. The social structure portrayed here, plus the weird gender stuff was just something else (the Pepettes who each have their own individual football player for them to minister to slave for bake cookies for - that just freaked me out. I'm surprised they didn't just have those girls line up and give blowjobs to each player before each game..... *ahem*).

Also - note the new icon. Just 'cause.

Also - good news, yay! We get to go on our vacation to Nova Scotia!!! Woohoo!!!! We're planning on the very end of September/beginning of October. Gotta get those books and maps out!

Date: 2007-08-21 02:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] allthatjazmyne.livejournal.com
I'm surprised they didn't just have those girls line up and give blowjobs to each player before each game.
The book doesn't say that? Because the movie and the tv show both pretty much say that was what was happening. Of course, the tv series takes it from an angle of "the coach's wife who is also a counselor is incensed that a girl came to see her because her football player is pressuring her for sex," along with "the nice guy quarterback doesn't want to have sex with his pep girl just because he can, but instead wants to wait for the right time with his adorable girlfriend, so they're going to leg wrestle instead." The book is on my "to read" list, because I adore the show, and liked the movie.

Date: 2007-08-21 03:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kcobweb.livejournal.com
Actually, there was altogether a remarkable lack of sex in the book. A few mentions of football players skipping classes to go party with a random sophomore girl who is so star-struck that they are paying attention to her that she takes Polaroids of herself with them (in compromising positions, I assume) as a memento, or proof, or something.

Date: 2007-08-21 11:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] samtheeagle.livejournal.com
I'm surprised they didn't just have those girls line up and give blowjobs to each player before each game.

My eyes! My eyes!

We get to go on our vacation to Nova Scotia!!!

Yay! If you time it right, you'll return for peak leaf peeping, which if memory serves is around October 10ish.

Date: 2007-08-21 12:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heef.livejournal.com
I'm surprised they didn't just have those girls line up and give blowjobs to each player before each game.

My eyes! My eyes!


Dude, from what I understand, you're supposed to close your eyes right before the end...

...not that I'd know from experience. Hey!

Date: 2007-08-21 03:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kcobweb.livejournal.com
This reminds of a quote from the Bethans T-shirt my year:
"I know all about body shots; I read about it in Playb.... oh."

Date: 2007-08-21 03:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kcobweb.livejournal.com
I'm sorry - I should mention that sometimes my LJ is rated R, mostly for language.

The perils of a sex educator: I used to talk about these things for *work* - sometimes I forget that you aren't supposed to bring them up in mixed company. *ahem*

Date: 2007-08-21 07:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] saltcod.livejournal.com
Yay! for Nova Scotia.
And that is a lovely icon.

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