A nice, quick-reading story of a star quarterback and some of his teammates who return home, after several years, to honor the death of their legendary coach. Most have a love/hate relationship to deal with. A departure from the usual Grisham legal novels.

John Grisham did an amazing job with this book. I loved it.
I’m a huge football fan, so it was right up my alley.
It made me think back on my high school days and our State Champion Yellow Jacket’s and the phenomenal coach who took us to 4 state Championship games, winning them all, and that turned our little town around and put it on the map.

I got this book from my Grandma. Not really my usual type of book but I didn’t hate it. I was interested in the first half of the book but then it felt like it just kept saying the same thing over and over until it ended

Disclaimer- I am not a sports fan. I barely understand football. I didn’t play any sports growing up so I don’t get the pull of the coach and the team. It’s probably my biggest handicap in life.

This book also reminds me a bit of Coach John Wooden, basketball and no violence, but similar adulation etc.

The book is well written and stirs a lot of feeling, probably for a variety of reasons. I’m going to keep mine to myself I think, but they’re not very positive. I hate a lot of societal aspects that are stereotyped here.

I’m glad Neely moved on.

Molto bello. Non capendo niente di football ho avuto problemi a capire alcuni passaggi e ho trovato un po' pesanti dei momenti in cui c'era la telecronaca di una partita, ma era tutto finalizzato a comprendere meglio le vecchie glorie di Eddie Rake ormai sul letto di morte. Mi sono piaciuti gli ultimi tre interventi. Come sempre John Grisham non si smentisce, nonostante la brevità del libro e la storia diversa dalle solite. Traspare tutta la sua passione per il football e l'omaggio a questo sport raggiunge l'apice con questo libricino. Finalmente ho superato il blocco della lettrice

Couldn't put it down. And it makes you think about how people influence you and how strong a bond is between coaches and players. This was excellent.

This is my first John Grisham book and it was a wrong choice. This book is about a football player, not the one Rolando, Messi plays but the American football. Since I have no clue about the American football, I hated the book for the first half as the first half deals only with the recollection of football memories by the protagonist Neely Cranshaw. Neely comes to his hometown after he hears the news about his football coach being in his death bed. Neely hates his coach but still wants to be in town when the coach breathed his last. The reason why he hates his coach is not revealed until the coach dies. Later during the funeral, Neely changes his mind and realizes how much he loves his coach Eddie Rake. It gets sentimental towards the end. You can read this book once but before you start reading, familiarize yourself with the football terms like 'touchdown' etc.

When I was a kid I read a book called Cellar Team by Talmage Powell. It was about a hopeless baseball team that couldn't win a game to save themselves. As an adult, I wanted to reread the book and tracked it down on some second-hand Craig's list type site. I ordered a battered old copy and now it has pride of place in my library. Very few would have heard of this book or its author, God knows how I came across it in the first place. Now, why did I say all that? Because it's the closest thing I can think of to compare Bleachers to. And, unfortunately, the latter is the poorer effort.
Grisham dishes out one corny cliche after another in Bleachers, and a huge number of reviews here pan the work mercilessly exactly for that reason. I'm kinder, giving it 3 stars, mainly due to the final couple of chapters where all the trips down memory lane by the ex-players, an old flame and an overweight cop finally come together and make some kind of sense. There's an uplifting element in the redemptive finale, too, which some may find motivational or even inspirational. Not Grisham's best book, but I can see he put his heart into it.

Think varsity blues 15 year reunion, I was not the reader demographic.

I took this book to read as I liked Calico Joe a lot and Grisham did not disappoint me. Though the book is not as good as Calico Joe as a sports fan perspective, this is good in a different way. This book is more about the memories of few school mates about the football and their coach during their school time. The thing I liked the most about the book is that this has rekindled all those memories of my school time.

Even though I am not a big fan of sports I found this book really well written. A long time hard ass (but successful) football coach is dying of cancer. Many of his players from his many coaching years come together and share stories of how they hated and yet appreciated him.

The book “Bleachers was a wonderful book to show you the positive and negatives of life when high school football is the main point. It also has a wonderful picture of what happens when you let an accident control your life. The coach showed me that there are people that you will consistently think about even with a bad situation. Everyone in life needs a person to help them with pushing yourself to get better more than we would push ourselves. If you decide to check out this book, you'll find the person who is your motivation. A weakness in this book is that there isn't really a situation in where something really exciting happens, most of it is sad. I would recommend this book to a classmate because it focuses on the outlook of life and everything that can occur. If this book was part of a series, I would continue to read it because its very interesting on how it is set up with everything happening very quickly. I would like to see how the team and everyone around would handle the whole situation.