Second Quarter Outside Reading Book Review
Football Genius by Tim Green. Harper Trophy, 2008. Genre: Realistic fiction
The book Football Genius is about a young boy named Troy White. Troy has a great ability where he can predict a football play before it happens. It is like a gift. Troy also is a huge Atlanta Falcons fan. Star linebacker Seth Halloway meets Troy and finds out about his great talent. They try to get people to believe him but struggle with it at first. Troy is invited to the Falcons game to test his abilities. After a while, he shows his talents and helps the Falcons win the next few games. Troy is offered a job by the manager for 10,000 dollars a game. Meanwhile, Troy is battling with his enemy Jamie Renfro throughout the book with his two friends Tate and Nathan.
“As close as you can come to NFL action without putting on the pads. Filled with excitement, suspense- and great football!”
- Bill Parcells, Dallas Cowboys head coach
Throughout the book, Troy battles with Jamie. They are on the same football team and do not like each other. Jamie’s dad is the coach. Even though Troy is a better quarterback than Jamie is, Jamie still starts. Jamie also makes fun of Troy and his favorite football team, the Atlanta Falcons. Troy does not have a father. His mom gets a job with the Falcons. Troy is introduced to Seth Halloway by stealing one of his footballs in his backyard and his mom makes him return it. This toss-up happens because Troy tells Jamie his mom works with the falcons when she did not have a job yet. Jamie then tells him to bring back an Atlanta Falcons football.
Tim Green writes the book in Troy’s point of view. You are often reading Troy’s thoughts and personality. The way he writes it sounds like his has a true passion for the game of football. He seems very passionate about his writing. I would compare Tim Green’s writing style to that of Mike Lupica, one of my favorite authors.
“All the tendencies and formations that we study and plug into computers, his brain just calculates it all. Instantly. But he does it better than computers. He calculates it all. What yard line they’re on. The positions of the players…” (141).
As I am a huge football fan, I can really relate to this book and the writing of Tim Green. I have not read any of Green’s other books, but I plan too. I really enjoyed this book because I can relate to it. From reading this book, it makes me want to analyze a play more and think about why they ran it.
Sean Rondeau C Block
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1. I think Sean really liked the book, because he's a fan of the game and seemed interested in the storyline.
ReplyDelete2. He noticed that Tim Green's writing style was similar to another one of his favorite authors.
3. Yes, I think Sean chose a fairly interesting passage to explain because it really makes you think about how the game works in the mind of the main character.
4. I think that Sean's review had pretty good vocabulary, and that it gave a good image of what the book was about.
5. However, I don't think I would want to read this book, because I'm not really into football. So I would get uninterested very quickly.
1) Sean really liked the book and wants to read more by the author.
ReplyDelete2) The author really enjoyed football and it was through Troy’s point of view.
3) I don’t think the quote is very interesting, It doesn’t spark anything for me.
4) This is a pretty average review.
5) I would not read this book because I Don’t like sports books.
1)Sean enjoyed this book because he himself plays football.
ReplyDelete2)Sean compared the authors writing to another author he has read before and found they were very similar.
3)I thought the quote provided was very good because it gives us a sense of how the author writes.
4)I thought that the description ofhow the author writes could use some more but overall it is good.
5)I would read this book because i like sports and it sounds like a good book.