Outstanding collection of nearly 200 crowd-pleasing mental magic feats requiring no special equipment. Author offers insider's tips and expert advice on techniques, presentation, diversions, patter, staging and all else needed to make any trick a foolproof success. Lucidly written, thoroughly diagrammed book by one of magic's legendary figures.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the two mentalism Bibles,
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This review is from: Practical Mental Magic (Dover Magic Books) (Paperback)
This, along with Corinda's "13 Steps to Mentalism" is an absolute essential for anybody that wants to get into the art of mindreading. It covers all of the main ruses, and Anneman's work with Billets is, in my opinion, unparalleled. Some effects are somewhat dated (i.e. some effects encorporate the "magician's force", which is now widly known by the layman), but considering it was first published in 1944 this is to be expected.
Beautifully written and compiled, and very cheap for the amount that you have to work with. An absolute must.
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Not what I was expecting, but still interesting,
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If you are looking for a book full of quick mental magic gags, this isn't very good. All the tricks in this book require either A) Advanced skills in slight of hand (palming, quick switches, etc) or B) A gimmicked apparatus. It isn't as easy as amazing your buddies at a party with some mind reading tricks. These are for more advanced magicians. It was also written in 1944.
That being said, it is a very interesting look into how some of this stuff is (or was) accomplished. I have seen several of these tricks used before and wondered how they were pulled off, now I know. If you are a magician with basic skills in slight of hand, palming, and switching, then you will probably find some cool additions to your performance here. If you are looking for some basic stuff to baffle your friends with, this is not the right book for you.
27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good Book to Realise How Mentalism Tricks are Performed,
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This review is from: Practical Mental Magic (Dover Magic Books) (Paperback)
This very popular book shows you how some mentalism tricks are performed through the use of additional hidden objects. Covers mind-reading, spiritual effects, etc... and making them LOOK REAL !! But a couple tricks are sort of outdated because the audience is becoming more demanding and intelligent and may be able to guess what exactly going on. For example, writing words in a special way and by "erasing" part of these words/numbers reveal a specific message. Overall it is a worthy book considering that it is not expensive, easy-to-understand and the sort of book that the conjurer would not want you to know about.
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dummy slip, palmed slip, unprepared slate, silicate flaps, drug envelope, flap slate, finger palmed, crimped card, upper left vest pocket, performer picks, assisting spectator, thumb writer, spectator shuffles, indifferent card, paper billets, pocket indexes, nail writer, second slate, third spectator, spectator cuts, lower slate, dead slip, force deck, top slate, side coat pocket Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ace of Spades, Three of Spades, Four of Spades, Editor's Note, Ted Annemann, Two of Clubs, Ace of Diamonds, Four of Diamonds, Two of Diamonds, Ten of Hearts, Ace of Hearts, Eight of Spades, Office Boy, Aces of Spades, Jack of Spades, United States, Aces of Diamonds, Red Deck Browse Sample Pages:
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