Customer Reviews

Byrne's Book of Great Pool Stories

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Perhaps the first thing to consider with this work is that the number of total pool related stories is low. So don't expect every story to be excellent or to be totally about pool. I am impressed Byrne found this many stories.

This is a great book for people who collect books on pool (such as myself.) There is nothing else like it.

I think there's enough stories in here, that most people would enjoy at least some of them. I was surprised at one negative review which dismissed the whole book. I thought the story "The crossroader" was almost worth the price of the book alone. Throw in the Walter Tevis stories (I seem to recall there being two,) and you should have little to complain about. I also loved the "sci-fi" story about the pool playing alien.

If you don't expect every story to be a classic story about high stakes pool matches or hustling, you should enjoy this.

Of course, it also helps to appreciate the short story as an art form unto itself.

If you don't have any pool stories, I suggest first buying Playing of the Rail as it's the best pool story I have ever read.

I have rated it 4 stars due to it's unique nature, and R. Byrne's hard work in actually finding enough pool stories to fill a book.

I have read several books latley Hustler Days and Playing off the Rail to name a few. This book doesn't even belong in the same name as Pool. The Stories made no sense what so even. This book is made up of very short stories. The first one only mentioned pool because the background story took play by it. no ON IT!!

If someone offers you this Book to read RUN!!!

Being an avid pool player, I often look for books on the subject to take up the time when I can't play. Most of the stories in this book were well written and were very enjoyable. Granted, there were some stories that were not as good, but in any book of short stories, that is bound to be the case. Overall, the book was humorous, and I enjoyed reading it.