Play Your Best 8 Ball is awesome! I swear by it. Play Your Best Pool also has a big section on 8 ball that I love as well! Both books courtesy of Phil Capelle.
I agree with your point!!
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Your Favorite Book for 8-Ball
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I agree with your point!!
Says the gent writing a contracted verb form as if it were a pronoun
Well, firstly I'm not "publishing" my writing for money. Are you telling me that if you planned to publish a book, you would not first read it through several times (at least) to make sure it was correct? Or at least pay someone else to do so?
Secondly, what was wrong with my post? (Aside from a smiley combined with a bracket turning into a smiley with no bracket).
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Says the gent writing a contracted verb form as if it were a pronoun
Well, firstly I'm not "publishing" my writing for money. Are you telling me that if you planned to publish a book, you would not first read it through several times (at least) to make sure it was correct? Or at least pay someone else to do so?
Secondly, what was wrong with my post? (Aside from a smiley combined with a bracket turning into a smiley with no bracket).
How DARE you not finish your bracket? OMG!
Any author has people read and proofread their books. Yes there are spelling errors in his, but obviously his proofreaders didn't catch them either. How do I know he had proofreaders - I asked him.
The ten year anniversary edition has a lot of those corrected, btw.
IMO, the plethora of excellent info is well worth overlooking the spelling errors. :thumbup:
I wish this were true, but a good friend who has run his own academic publishing business for many years tells me it is not...
As for the proofers missing things many of us spotted at once, I'd be tossed out on my ear if I made such oversights in my (related) profession. And if their eyes didn't catch them, their final few runs through with an automatic spell-checker should have. (It's amazing what your eyes can miss or be fooled into thinking they saw).
Aye, it's an awesome book and complaining about small errors is, at the end of the day, nit-picking. Or as I believe the Dutch express it "f**king ants".
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I didn't think there was anyone arguing here? We're all agreed he writes awesomely on 8-ball and pool generally.
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Phil Capelle's book about 8-ball is fantastic.
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Really, it's been going on since the 60's and before.
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When I first started working for Barnes and Noble, we had a dedicated sub-section of our Games/ Humor section called "Pool & Billiards."
Since then, all of the pool books have been moved over to the "Games" sub-section with all of the Scrabble books and the "Pool & Billiards" section has been deleted. The horror!
Since then, all of the pool books have been moved over to the "Games" sub-section with all of the Scrabble books and the "Pool & Billiards" section has been deleted. The horror!
that book is not to bad.. I picked up a trick or two from it..
not really game specific though..and some of the game specific stuff in it is wrong.. (straight pool break shot for 1)
but Givens is the man when it comes to 8 ball I've read that Bible a few times and pick up more from it each time I read it..
good point!
not only the books, but even the magazines. where have they been.......?
The only 8 ball I have ever owned is "The 8-ball book" by The Monk.
It is not bad IMHO.
It is not bad IMHO.
While not specifically for 8ball I found '99 Most Critical Shot' to be the best book to learn how to play 8ball.
it is good for straight pool as well.
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