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Mind Magic: Extraordinary Tricks to Mystify, Baffle and Entertain

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Mostly cool tricks and mostly easy to understand and learn.

I only used a couple so far, but the ones I learned were relatively simple and they worked well. My friends and family were amazed.

One caution...fight the temptation to repeat them at what will surely be popular demand by your audience! As they lose their entertainment value with each repeat in front of the same people. The smarter (or more attentive) folks will start to figure them out!(This is actually the case with any magic and does not take anything away from the tricks themselves!)

Overall, I recommend the book. I had a lot of fun with it.

I was having a tough time deciding what to rate this. It's basically a beginners course in mentalism, which made me disappointed because I already knew most of the routines in this book. However, I don't feel it's fair to give it a negative review because of that. I just feel that any good book on magic or mentalism should range from beginner to advanced effects, to have something for all skill sets, and also to challenge the reader along the way at getting better.

Honestly, most of these tricks are something you could find in a child's magic book at your local library. The other effects I would just never use at all. Take the effect Telecommunication. A card is selected at random by a spectator, you then call a friend on the phone and he is able to name their card. It involves you and the accomplice memorizing secret code from a table graph you both have to study. Wouldn't it just be easier to use the card force you learned earlier in the book, and then just text your friend ahead of time with the card your going to use?

Needless to say, some tricks are impractical. And with only 90 pages of material you start going through tricks you already know, or just won't use because they are out dated, or just down right silly. I guess I was just looking for mentalism that was a little more direct. Also, the writing in the book may be a little out of place. They play up the situations a little too much, giving the spectators names and putting you in first person situation like your reading a novel. I found myself just jumping ahead to the secret to so see if I already knew the method to avoid the extra dialogue and character descriptions.

With that said, I do think it's a pretty good book for a beginner. There is some good stuff on the Hobson's Choice and some old forces I might dust off. Also If you don't already know the "one ahead principle" it's in this book and a nice one to know for impromptu situations. A beginner would definitely get something out of this book. I was just hoping there would have been something I could have used that I didn't already know. A more appropriate title might have been Beginners Guide to Mind Magic.

If you want to dazzle your friends down the pub with amazing magic (that they really will think is magic) then this is the book for you!

It gives you step by step instructions of how to do each trick and it reveals some of the deepest secrets of the magic circle and their tricks!

Easy to do tricks. You rarely need any more props than what you can find on your coffee table and everyone can do them!

This book I informative...but it's written for a young adult. I won't be keeping it. It't too childish. It's a good book...but it's for young boys.

The presentation is good - It puts you on the site actually performing. Most of the items to use are readily available. There are three that I can't wait to do to the kids

This book was very nice when i purchased it. The black is a velvet mock and is very nice to hold while you read and study it. Most of these tricks are good when in a magic environment, but if you are out with your friends on the street this may not come in much handy. If you are the kind of person that everybody believes and trusts then this book will do wonders. But if you are the type of person who everybody mocks for doing magic and makes fun of, snickers as your doing a mind trick, then do not get this book.

This is a terrible book! I purchased it by accident and wish I hadn't. Big waste if money. It shows you the absolute lamest magic tricks that any sane person will be able to see right through. Again, do not buy this terrible book! It is such an eye sore on my book shelf. If your sole purpose is to better yourself in such ways to be able to win people over, do not go the lame magician route. I have seen these idiots out at bars trying there cute little magic tricks with high hopes of picking up girls but it never works. It just looks quite desperate and that is so anti-seductive.

I do a couple of tricks from the book. It teaches you a little about some of the fundamental aspects of magic, but the setting and situational instruction is kind of corny. I liked the street magic books a lot better.

No what I expected. Was looking for a lot more. Not a lot of info.