Customer Reviews

Ultimate Street Magic: Amazing Tricks for the Urban Magician

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There are a few good tricks in this book, but not enough to justify its cost. Most of the effort in producing this book seems to have gone into the presentation, which is slick and glossy, but adds nothing to the book's ability to teach magic.

Ordered this book as a gift for my husband. He recently started learning card tricks. I thought this book would have more entertaining tricks for him to learn, but overall he wasn't impressed with it. It's mostly simple parlor tricks and would be best suited for teens or children.

This book is awful, the tricks suck, and he doesn't even show them at a good angle..I wouldn't even recommend this for a beginner, I would definately recommend Paul Zenon, he's much better and takes better angled shots

Magic is an ART, like painting, dance, music.... Patience is the key to it...it takes regular practice for both the mechanics of the trick, and the dramatic presentation (theater)of the effect...I use 3 offerings from this book regularly in my Restaurant work...I've honed them...polished them..(the presentations...using properly placed pauses and voice volume changes)My spectators truly BELIEVE that I'm REALLY 'Dunsany the Magician'...

I bought this book for my 16 yr old who is into magic. He loves it! Lots of pictures. Very entertaining.

The book offers readers a wide range of tricks that will wow the public but falls short of the promise. I found it to be visually impressive as I'm used to learning from illustrations in these types of books. However, I think the only one who would benefit from this book is an extreme beginner in magic. Most of the tricks in here you probably already know. This entire book would be just a chapter in any other crash course in magic. Material ranges from tricks your uncle would do when you were younger, to the levitation that David Blaine did ages ago on TV. Considering it came out in '06 it should have offered new material on the subject and included some intermediate effects. Otherwise this should have been listed as a beginners guide to close up magic. Also it's lacking in mentalism effects that could have help the overall value. With that said not all the tricks in here are that bad. Here's some good effects the book offers if you don't already know them.
*Dexterous Disappearance- A classic sleight to make a card disappear into thin air. Super Visual
*Ashes on Arm- A chosen card appears on the arm of the magician.
*Glassed- Smash a bottle and eat the glass. This trick has potential. Nice idea here.
*Eye Popper- Mac King's classic effect where you stab your eye with a fork and white goo squirts out. Great for restaurants.
*Jacket Levitation- Levitation using a jacket. Visually it's kind of obvious but will give you ideas for other levitations.
*Coin Roll- This is a flourish where you roll a coin across your knuckles. Great intro into a coin routine.
This should give you an good idea of what's inside the book. There's also some pretty decent stuff on card flourishes. Overall not a bad gift for someone interested in starting out. If you want a great book on magic I highly recommend Mysterios Encyclopedia of Magic and Conjuring.