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It is a good book. It has a lot of magic with objects you can find around. It has both cards and other effects. I think of it as an updated version of Mark Wilson's book with less focus on the classics.

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There is very little overlap with Scarne and Royal Road and Expert Card Technique. There are some great effects in there. For sleight of hand, Royal Road would be next unless you decide to start getting the Card College series.

I'm tired of repeating myself. So, YOU ARE RIGHT. You should learn from Mismag's tutorials, use his technique and imitate his style. It really won't matter for magic as a whole. At some point you will either quit magic because you don't get the reactions you think you should (for some reason...

Don't tutorials reveal magic? What is the difference?

I suspect it will be reprinted in the next six months.

I've looked too and couldn't find anything -- except when the deck is cut badly and the borders are uneven.

The basic double turn over is taught in Royal Road as are a bunch of other basic sleights. Expert Card Technique builds on those sleights by presenting alternative methods. There have been many variations and improvements of the sleights taught in that book. That is one of the reasons I...

There also is an e-book version on lybrary.com.

This is one of my favorite quotes: "Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the Divine." ~Ludwig van Beethoven The real secrets aren't on YouTube. They are buried in books, on in-depth videos and in the knowledge shared on...

I just checked prices and they are $40 per book. Good places to buy from are Penguin and Vanishing (which sells individual volumes but has all five for $185). Volume 2 is currently out of print, but I've read that they will be reprinting the series in the next month or two. The first two...

I didn't have a chance to do a lot of research this morning, but the earliest publication listed in the Conjuring Archive for the method for revealing the card is in 1784 in a book called Breslaw's Last Legacy. The effect was called the Nerve Trick. It is also in Hoffman's Modern Magic...

My sense is that the plot is somewhat original. It relies on a simple principle, a sleight taught in Royal Road and an ending that is a variation of something taught in Scarne on Card Tricks. I don't think that either of the authors were the inventors of those principles. I'm not sure if Scarne...

Scarne on Card Tricks - Effects with a minimum of sleight of hand. Amazing book. Royal Road to Card Magic - The best starting point forbsleight ofnhand. Encyclopedia of Card Tricks - Primarily Card Tricks using gaffed cards (double back, double face, short cards), gaffed decks (rough/...

The answer is you can learn a bunch of tricks but you will not really learn the proper techniques and not really learn about presentation and character. Most videos focus on the performers hands. So when someone performs they look at their hands. When they do that, the audience looks at their...

To be clear... I was saying your money was better spent on buying Roberto Giobbi's Card College series and a couple of decks of cards than subscribing to Madison's sleight club. Go for substance over hype.

I would stick with the Goshman SuperSoft sponge balls. They run less than $5 for a set of four. There is a reason why they are the standard.

The complete five volume set of Card College is $185. That is all you need to know to make a decision. That leaves $27 to buy any deck you want.

I think the question is whether it is a significant problem in magic. The responses in the thread provide a thorough discussion of the various disadvantages of exposure. Those disadvantages are: 1) adversely affecting our audiences (seeing magic as a game to guess the method); 2) adversely...

Two words: Brainwave.... wait... that's only one word.