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World's Best Card Tricks

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I'm a magician member of the Magic Castle now, but in my early forays into card magic this book helped wean me away from trick Svengali and stripper decks, so that I could be handed a deck of cards from anyone and perform a nice trick. They're not all home runs. But I still get great responses from several of the tricks contained within here.
...and yes, I now own Card College, have read Royal Road to Card Magic several times, but those books should come after this one. This one will help you decide if you're serious about persuing more card magic or not.
A fabulous starter book, but make sure you practice!!

I have been doing card tricks for a while, and I have to say that anything of Bob Longe's is a waste of money.

The tricks in this book are terrible. These are certainly NOT the "World's Best Card Tricks". I can't believe some of this [stuff] is even in here.

I highly recommend the reader to learn card magic from great authors such as Jean Hugard, S.W. Erdnase, and Arthur H. Buckley.

If you are a beginner, get the "Royal Road to Card Magic" By Hugard and Braue. It is of MUCH higher value and the tricks in this book will be 100x better than the stuff that's in Bob Longe's books. There is absolutely no way you can be the life of the party with these tricks, as the author claims.

I like this book of card tricks for the fact that it is user-friendly and practical-minded.

After a brief introduction, Longe guides the reader through a series of card-manipulating exercises that have applications in hundreds of card tricks. He then lays out a series of card tricks, rated for their difficulty level, and complete with advice on what kind of audience might be best suited for any particular trick. The illustrations are simple and clear, and the tricks range from the basic to the extremely clever and inventive.

There's nothing new under this sun, but a beginner will find this guide much better than average when seeking to learn the basic skills necessary to amaze their friends and strangers.

No doubt that this is the greatest book on card magic. No sleight of hand is required and all you require is a deck of 52 cards, preferably the Bicycle brand Bridge sized cards which are easy to handle. Therefore the tricks are easy to learn.

I am not a professional magician, no way close to being even an amateur and yet I could amaze and dazzle my family members and friends. I am just a beginner to this world and now I am genuinely interested in magic in general and card magic in particular. Thanks, Bob for this great book. I am sure I will check out his other books as well.

If you never read "Royal Road To Card Magic", "Expert Card Technique" or "Expert At The Card Table", you'll find this book a good one. It has some good tricks, but it has some dumb ones too. I recommend this book for those who does not want to learn some sleight of hand before starting doing card tricks. As Amazon warns, this book is juvenile literature. Last word: if you buy this book and you like it, then buy "101 Amazing Card Tricks". It's written by Bob Longe too, and in my opinion, they should be sold together, for their similarity.

A reviewer from Horn has indicated that some previous proficiency is required. This is nonsense. The vast majority or the tricks are self-working. By many magicians, it's considered THE book for aspiring card-magicians. For proof of this, check out other reviews. I don't know what the other reviewer's problem is, but he certainly knows nothing whatever about card magic. Apparently the reviewer was too shy to include his name. I'm not. I'm Bob Longe, and I wrote the book, along with many others which have been well received.

For the past week I have taken this book everywhere I go. It has tought me lots of amazing--yet easy to do--card tricks. This book contains a decent amount of pictures. Only one or two of his selection of tricks I have not been able to figure out...yet. What can I say? The book is defently worth the $$ you pay for it!

I recommend this book. It is well worth the money! Tricks are well explained and easy to perform with practice. I also recommend it for beginners, as I am one. Go ahead, try it!

I love doing card tricks as a hobby. I bought this book about 10 years ago to learn a few more new card tricks. Unfortunately I only found about 6 or 7 tricks worth learning. Most of the tricks were either not that good or were not worth learning.

The author should learn to explain briefly and to the point. Many of the tricks were explained in 5 or 6 pages which elaborated unnecessary details. The tricks could have easily been explained in 1 or 2 pages each. The author thinks he has to describe every single detail including but not limited to the expression on his face and the size of his fingers. Seriously though, the explanations include unnecessary details and are just way too long. A better title for this book would have been "Read all this and perhaps you'll find a few card tricks worth doing".

In conclusion I did find a few nice effects or a different or better approach to doing tricks I already knew. Two better books are "Scarne On Card Tricks" and "Mark Wilson's Complete Course In Magic". Both of these books explain lots of great card magic tricks in a better and more concise format.