Reddit reviews Play Your Best Straight Pool

1. If you really want to expand your straight pool knowledge, i recommend the book Play Your Best Straight Pool by Phil Capelle.
   
   
2. Ralph Eckert has made a good video on 14/1 break shots, but it's in german. He usually also makes an english version for most of his lessons, but I can't find it for this one. The main point is that you should look where the cueball is going to hit the rack and, more importantly, which part of which ball it's going to hit. If the cueball sticks to the rack a lot it's because the cueball hit the ball in the rack fully. To prevent this you can either play a proper draw shot to get the cueball away from the rack, or force-follow through the rack. It really depends on the situation.
   
   Always look where the cueball is going to hit the rack/cluster and try to predict what's going to happen. Don't blindly wack the balls and expect to get lucky.

Phil Capelle's books are always on point.