All About Darts: America's most complete and up-to-date book on the game of darts [Paperback]
Ivan Brackin (Author), William Fitzgerald (Author)
176 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 2nd edition (April 1, 1986)
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27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not up-to-date, not American,
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This review is from: All About Darts: America's most complete and up-to-date book on the game of darts (Paperback)
It's remarkably deceptive that this 1977 book has "America" and "up-to-date" in its subtitle, for it is neither a book for or by Americans, nor is it up to date. Why isn't copyright date listed on Amazon site??? The most popular game in America is Cricket. Not covered--only the '01 games. Cricket was pretty much unheard of in Britian (home of authors) in 1977 And what of all of the innovations in darts of the last 20 years? Brass darts were the standard in 1977! Since 1977... Tungsten, retractable tip darts, electronic darts, sucken-wire dartboards, hundreds of new tournaments in US and internationally, the hundreds of web sites devoted to darts....and much, much more. And not just lack of information, but misinformation. For instance, in 1977, at the time of their writing, official throwing distances were different around the world (they state 8' most of the time). The official international distance is 7' 9 1/4"--established in 1979 by BDO and ADO, after this "up-to-date" book was written (20 years ago!)...Valuable information, as well as virtually all names, organizations, etc. are 20 years out of date... Again, this book is certainly, and demonstrably, NOT America's most complete and up-to-date book on darts. This book should have gone out of print years ago.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent beginners dart book,
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This review is from: All About Darts: America's most complete and up-to-date book on the game of darts (Paperback)
I own several books on the game of darts, and this is the best one. It is chock full of humorous comments, informative sidebars, charts, figures, hand drawings, and examples. The rules for the games were easy to follow and it lists 23 of them including Cricket. The tips on how to play well, and practice effectively were good. It included several practice routines in addition to the games. And most welcome were the frequent charts showing how an average, expert or pro darter would perform on the various games or feats.I read the book cover to cover and thoroughly enjoyed the author's writing style and frequent application of humor. NOTE: The review that blasts the 1977 version of the book should be ignored, as the the 1986 update to the book addressed all the complaints. Cricket is listed, the 7' 9 1/4" throwing distance is clearly listed, etc.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
this book is a waste of time!!!,
By A Customer
This review is from: All About Darts: America's most complete and up-to-date book on the game of darts (Paperback)
The only thing worthwhile about this book is a few laughs here and there... darts wise, it's better to go to a bar and learn it from there,
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