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Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic

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I am pretty sure the tricks described herein wouldn't work with the people I know, as all of the stunts involve a lot of acting and dialogue as part of the set-up. That said, who cares? This book is hilarious, and as a simple work of comedy, it kills. The now-familiar Penn rants are hysterical, and the descriptions of the duo's friends and favorite places are quite interesting. In particular, the review of the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia (of anatomical and pathological specimens, medical instruments, etc.) is a dark and touching tribute. There is a confusing piece of fiction about a man granted three wishes that I found odd, but otherwise, the book's flow was nice and seamless. As with the live P & T show, there are a lot of great quotes and witticisms. No great work of literature, this, but an extremely effective piece of travel writing that is a hair more intelligent than other books similarly categorized.

Penn & Teller, the self-proclamed "bad boys of magic" and ripoff artistes come through again. This is a very funny book of travel stories plus antics that you, yourself can do, while on the road. Tricks include making the Virgin Mary appear in any photograph, doctoring the flight safety card, how to stop a shaken pop can from exploding in your face and make another one explode in someone else's instead, and how to make someone pick a card which is engraved on an actual cenotaph. Lots of mean fun to be had.

even if you're not the hugest p&t fan (ha!) i swear on ron jeremy you'll start to fall in love after reading this book....besides some pretty dang good (well, entertaining) stories and twisted insights, you'll find a plethora o' tricks and scams that give life a nice, zany twist (it also makes people very afraid of you, which can be a very fun thing). penn's story about comedy timing and teller's bit on the mutter museum are two of my favorites. buy the goshdarn book!!!

This is the first Penn and Teller book that I have read, and it was awesome. It was very funny. The tricks were really cool (it's amazing what people will believe), and Penn's social commentary was insightful. This book was fun to read, I highly reccomend it.

If you've read "Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends" and "How to Play with your Food," I think you'll be mildly disappointed here. Not nearly as many tricks as the other books, and Penn's near constant injections of his political views are intrusive. Still, its got some darn funny moments and there ARE a few good tricks. If you've never picked up a P&T book before, don't start with this one. If you've got the other two, what the hell, complete the set.

Penn & Teller have added one more hit to their series of "How to ..." books. If you haven't read their previous two books, what the h___ is wrong with you!? Get to it. The bad boys of magic will show you how to have a great time fooling your friends and neighbors into being a bit less gullible in a time when gullibility is the norm. Better than that, Penn & Teller are alcohol free, drug free, and religion free role models for the future. God bless 'em

I just got my copy of "How to Play in Traffic" and was awake looooong into the night reading it (and often laughing outloud!). Apparently, judging from a couple of the reviews, some people thought this was supposed to be a book on performing magic tricks and were disappointed. But having read the other Penn&Teller books, I was very pleased to find the book was sooooo much more -- the hilarious anecdotes, the funny prose, the wonderful pictures. If you're in to P&T, this books is a pleaser! :-)

This book is better reading material than previous Penn & Teller books. The explanation of NASA's definition of comedy timing is worth the price of the book all by itself. The tricks are good but other P&T books have some better ones. However, my friends really believe that I have power over carbonation.

It was intresting. I thought it was cool how you can trick people that simply, but not be caught. it was perfect in every way since all the tricks you can actually do.

Penn & Teller are the best comical magicians,and they're book is no exception.They tell great tricks to do and add perfect jokes also. I never laughed so hard from a book in all my life!