VERY IMPORTANT POLL-Everyone please vote.

Pick the best title for a book.

  • Confessions: of a pool room hustler

    Votes: 262 84.2%

  • Confessions: of a pool room junkie

    Votes: 49 15.8%
  • Total voters
    311
Fatboy

Fatboy

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Pretend you didnt play pool and you saw 2 books for sale, could be at a book store or online anywhere. It has nothing to do with the movie.

Remebering that you dont play pool, or you did play pool 20 years ago, But bearing in mind your not a active pool player right now which title is best????


This is very important, i will say when I can. I give the forum my word. I plead that everyone please vote on this if you dont like me or what ever it is inportant.

thanks

Eric
 
Again nothing to do with the movie, your just a average person that knows what a pool table is thats the frame of mind I need for this vote.


thanks again,

Fatboy
 
Junkie

Unless the player is on drugs I wouldn't use Junkie. I don't think many people would buy a book about a junkie. They see enough in the real world.
 
I am asking everybody in an accounting firm as we speak. Absolutely none of them are players.
 
I think pool room junkie is a more interesting title. Pool hustler is very common, pool junkie is not. Junkie can mean a lot of things other than just a drug addict.
 
TWOFORPOOL said:
Unless the player is on drugs I wouldn't use Junkie. I don't think many people would buy a book about a junkie. They see enough in the real world.
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Exactly.
"junkie" is the wrong word for what you are trying to say.

#1 all the way.


chris G<-----wasn't trying to rhryme
 
If I had to look at it from the standpoint of someone who does not have anything to do with pool, I would have to go with #1. Reason being, if you have someone who is not around the game, has nothing to do with the game, and whose only experience with the game is the occassional game at the strip club or pub, the "Pool Hustler" icon is much more alluring than "Pool Junkie". You see stories of junkies everyday on the television...the word Junkie just has too many negative connotations having to do with an unhealthy addiction. However, the Hustler is that mysterious con man who people never see coming. More interesting overall. Just my $.02....

Dags
 
Hi,my name is.......

DJKeys said:
I think pool room junkie is a more interesting title. Pool hustler is very common, pool junkie is not. Junkie can mean a lot of things other than just a drug addict.
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I,m with you.I've been in a lot of action and made a few good moves.
But sometimes i'll not play for a few years.

But if i want a coffee i go to a pool hall.
.....very few restaurant patrons can hit the end rail......

ps----we're being out voted....these people are in serious denial
 
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Junkie is a poor word choice.....when your everyday person thinks about pool, they think of the word hustler for somebody that is a good player....everytime we go out with another couple and my wife brings up the fact that I play pool, somebody always asks me if I am a hustler....

Junkie = drugs
Hustler = good pool player

At least to the general public....
 
Of the two, I chose "hustler".

But both have been done; The Hustler & Poolhall Junkies.

How about a third choice, maybe "addict", or "freak"?

Just thinkin'

Jim
 
Opinion

Titles are very important, whether they be for movies, books, products etc. In today's times, the word "junkie" is used as an adjective for many things that might be a compulsive activity. For example: Shopping Junkie, Gambling Junkie, Chocolate Junkie, Sex Junkie, and on and on. Does anyone really think that the movie, PoolHall Junkies, was about players on drugs????? Just FYI---I have done focus groups, surveys, and have sent the book cover to many prospective readers (in and out of the pool world) and am getting mostly positive feedback, not negative, about the word Junkie. We have not made our final decision yet on the title. That being said, I welcome additional feedback from all and thank you for your interest. I appreciate Fatboy's posting and the comments so far. They help a lot. --Sydney LeBlanc.
 
I asked my wife about what she thought of the "junkie" title and she said she immediately thought of some guy sitting in the corner of a pool hall shooting up heroin. Might not be the image you are trying for. :)
 
Book Cover sample

If anyone would like to see a copy of the book cover, write to me at sydney@ffpublish.com and I'll send you one. It's very powerful. I can't upload it here, because it is 5MB, and it won't allow the size to post.

syd
 
Eric,

I went with #1; however, if the content be known, I may choose neither. The word "Hustler" could be misleading if the content were not in keeping with same. "Junkie" has many connotations -- some of which are perceived as a bad or negative thing. Both "Hustler" and "Junkie" have become somewhat trite over the years to the point where a passerby just might think that it's another of the same-ole same ole or something they have already read/know of and not even give it a second glance.

The word "Confessions" precedes both choices which leads me to believe the author is either coming out with the truth (clearing his/her conscious) or telling road stories. Not knowing the content, here again, this too may be misleading/not what the book as truly about.

Sorry Eric; but, I am a bit torn on this one my friend!

This link can perhaps be of some assistance to you. Pay special attention to the last paragraph thereat: http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Choose-the-Best-Title-for-Your-Self-Published-Book&id=427605
 
Euphemisms

How about Billiard Club Enthusiast?
May end up in the literary section of major book stores.
Could attract a higher statum of society to the book signings.
...then we could come down and make a game ...
....i've never won an etching by Picasso....
 
Still believe a third choice may be better, since both have words have already been used in a pool related movie/book.

That said: "Junkie" brings to mind someone being controlled, more of a loser type, whereas "hustler" carries with it someone "in control", a winner type.

Is your character "controlled", or "in control"?

Jim
 
even if i didn't play there is a romanticized notion of pool hall hustling. the term junkie however has no good notion to it.
 
Hi Fatboy, I didn't like either title.

If you are looking for a title, do some brainstorming with some of your buddies.

In the sixties, lots of folks knew what a Hustler was/is.

The "Color of Money" was great because MONEY was in the title & everyone associates with the word money

Pool has a different image today... work on that theme

Just some suggestions, GOOD LUCK.... CB
 
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