The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pool & Billiards
by Ewa Mataya Laurance
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Author: Ewa Mataya LauranceEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-10-30
ISBN: 0028626451
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Alpha
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Book Review: Pretty Good, but Best for Beginners
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a useful book, but beginners will probably get more out of it than intermediates. It does cover some useful intermediate material, like buying your own cue or table, how to apply english, and some useful practice drills. But it is a curious mix of material for beginners also. It spends too much time explaining things (for idiots, I suppose). Explaining that balls are round and what 'cue' and 'scratch' mean. This may be useful for someone who's never ever played a game of pool before and decides to buy a book to learn, but most readers will have to flip over lots of rudimentary explanations to get to something useful. So, it's got all the really basic material that intermediates don't need, and lots of good intermediate material that beginners can't use. It's also a bit repetitive, you'll find identical explanations of 8-ball and 9-ball breaks in two different chapters. And sometimes it's contradictory, Mataya explains twice that if you miscue on the break that you can grab the cueball because the game doesn't start till the cueball hits the rack. But in the official rules in the appendix, it seems that the game starts when your stick hits the cueball. I couldn't figure this out.Having said all this, it's not a bad book at all. It's simple, the layout is engaging. You can read a few pages and come back later. You can flip around easily, the index is ample so you can quickly find what you need. So it may be a bit schizophrenic, and it could seriously use some re-organization in the next edition, but it's not too bad at all.
Summary of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pool & Billiards
You're no idiot, of course. You know that "English" isn't just the name of a language, it's also the type of spin you use to control the cue ball in pool. But when it comes to racking them up, making a break shot, and sinking balls in the corner pocket, you feel like "English" is your second language. Don't hang up your cue stick yet! In her comprehensive book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pool & Billiards, Ewa Mataya Laurance--one of the world,s most accomplished and mesmerizing players--gives you:Games Books
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