Excellent guide to fundamental tricks
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I think a few reviews have been a bit harsh - this book isn't going to turn you into Derren Brown overnight. What it will do is give you 20-30 tricks that you can use and develop that are reasonably simple to perform, some of which will really baffle even the most cynical. The book is well written and laid out, varied and easy to follow. If you want a sound grounding, it's definately worth a look and a complete steal at the price.
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Hmmmm!?!??
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I was a little disappointed with this one.
In general it is quite good if you want to impress with a few card tricks and stuff, but only few of the tricks were actually MIND READING tricks or were to do with MIND READING, most were terribly simple dinner table tricks that depended on a dodgy light of hand ability.
Good if you want a couple of nifty dinner table tricks...bad if you want to learn MIND READING....don't know why he put it in the title!!
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Only OK but worth a look for amateurs
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The tricks in this book are pretty basic as mentalism goes. Mentalism generally relies on people peeking what has been written/drawn, having multiple get-outs or reducing the choice and this book covers most of those methods pretty well. I'd say most of them are more puzzlers than potential evidence of something psychic. Maybe that's because I'm well versed in magic. It would certainly be a good starting point for someone new to mental magic.
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Not all that great, really....
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I can see that this book has it's fans, but I am ot one of them. The tricks are verging on child like, and the whole way the book is laid out is very ninteen sixties. In summary, all you budding Derren Browns need to look elsewhere....
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Well worth the money for one effect alone
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The comments about this book by other reviewers are not entirely deserved in my opinion... Most professional works (generally available only from magical dealers) cost many times the cost of this volume - and contain only a fraction of the effects. Besides, the important thing in a book on magic is the IDEA for an effect - which the performer then colours with his or her own personal style and themed setting. For me, the price of this book was redeemed by one effect alone (a visible mind-over-matter effect with a watch) worth TEN TIMES the cost of this whole book. No magic book is perfect - and this work is no exception. But look at the price you are paying for numerous top-class effects! One excellent effect alone at that price is worth the price of the book. Some people just moan about everything - what was the saying about looking a gift horse in the mouth???
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