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World's Best Card Tricks
These are 36 of the greatest impromptu card tricks ever invented. Longe shows you not only how each one works, but also how to put them over, with clear step-by-step instructions and illustrations. A special chapter in the back even explains how to bluff your way through a trick if it goes wrong. Great for kids from eight to eighty. 128 pages, 17 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.
128 pages, Paperback
First published June 30, 1992
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March 7, 2022
A fairly good "beginners book". Karl Fulves' books are better for beginners, this one has a few special moves and training for same in it (the glide, some other handlings) so perhaps better for people well onto the path of wanting to learn magic?
I personally prefer Fulves' work (who leaves his voice out if it entirely), Bob comes across as an egoist (though nowhere near as vain or selfobsessed as Harry Lorayne became) - no one is interested in your veiled accusations of other magicians stealing "your" work. These sorts of books aren't the battlefield for those tired/unsupported claims. Having said that, Bob also does offer some good tips on study and tuition (and has gone to the trouble to rank the tricks on a scale of difficulty) - in the absence of that redeeming feature, the book would have lost another star.
There's a wide mix of quality in the book. Some of the tricks are very very average, but there's some gold in here as well (I actually got the book because it has the trick Chris Pratt did on the Graham Norton show on it). I got the book second hand but that trick alone would probably justify the book price.
On average it's a mostly fine book, somewhat hampered by the author's voice. If you want to encourage a younger magician, get them a Karl Fulves book instead (or a perhaps a sleightless one like Scarne on Cards)
I personally prefer Fulves' work (who leaves his voice out if it entirely), Bob comes across as an egoist (though nowhere near as vain or selfobsessed as Harry Lorayne became) - no one is interested in your veiled accusations of other magicians stealing "your" work. These sorts of books aren't the battlefield for those tired/unsupported claims. Having said that, Bob also does offer some good tips on study and tuition (and has gone to the trouble to rank the tricks on a scale of difficulty) - in the absence of that redeeming feature, the book would have lost another star.
There's a wide mix of quality in the book. Some of the tricks are very very average, but there's some gold in here as well (I actually got the book because it has the trick Chris Pratt did on the Graham Norton show on it). I got the book second hand but that trick alone would probably justify the book price.
On average it's a mostly fine book, somewhat hampered by the author's voice. If you want to encourage a younger magician, get them a Karl Fulves book instead (or a perhaps a sleightless one like Scarne on Cards)
November 26, 2017
A quick read with good instructions on various tricks of different levels.
January 21, 2012
This is the book that got me into card magic. Although it is beginner level (there are only two sleights in the whole thing), it is full of classic card tricks that professional magicians can perform (and, in fact, I have seen a pro perform one of these effects on stage to great effect). It also contains "Astounding Appearance" which seems to have replaced the 21 card trick as "most popular card trick for beginners." In any case, if you are looking for a good gift for an intelligent ten-year-old, you could pick this up used and a deck of cards for under five bucks.
April 6, 2013
This book helped me skate through 3 years of being in the JET Programme as an ALT in Japan.
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