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Stage Magic Books
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Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as stage-magic)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,059 ratings — published 2003
The Magician and the Cardsharp: The Search for America's Greatest Sleight-of-Hand Artist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as stage-magic)
avg rating 4.06 — 233 ratings — published 2005
Art and Artifice and Other Essays of Illusion (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stage-magic)
avg rating 4.14 — 135 ratings — published 2006
The Last Greatest Magician in the World: Howard Thurston versus Houdini & the Battles of the American Wizards (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.84 — 477 ratings — published 2011
Magic: 1400s–1950s (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as stage-magic)
avg rating 4.69 — 219 ratings — published 2009
Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,666 ratings — published 2010
Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,689 ratings — published 2011
Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.59 — 229 ratings — published 2007
The Glorious Deception: The Double Life of William Robinson, aka Chung Ling Soo, the "Marvelous Chinese Conjurer" (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as stage-magic)
avg rating 4.16 — 332 ratings — published 2005
Under Lock & Skeleton Key (Secret Staircase Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.52 — 5,478 ratings — published 2022
Carter Beats the Devil (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as stage-magic)
avg rating 4.09 — 14,174 ratings — published 2001
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,117,361 ratings — published 2011
Extraordinary Exhibitions: Broadsides from the Collection of Ricky Jay (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 4.33 — 72 ratings — published 2005
A magician's tour, up and down and round about the earth : being the life and adventures of the American Nostradamus, Harry Kellar (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published 2010
Dice: Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.83 — 143 ratings — published 2002
The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,288 ratings — published 2019
Cards as Weapons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 4.12 — 109 ratings — published
The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.43 — 2,268 ratings — published 2015
The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,740 ratings — published 2006
Death Out of Thin Air (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.61 — 46 ratings — published 1941
The Great Merlini: The Complete Stories of the Magician Detective (The Gregg Press mystery fiction series)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.97 — 117 ratings — published 1979
Death from Nowhere (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.68 — 31 ratings — published 1943
The Coney Island Fakir: The Magical Life of Al Flosso (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.95 — 21 ratings — published 1996
The Footprints on the Ceiling (The Great Merlini #2)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.72 — 120 ratings — published 1939
No Coffin for the Corpse (The Great Merlini #4)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.77 — 83 ratings — published 1942
The Headless Lady (The Great Merlini #3)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.79 — 77 ratings — published 1940
Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town that Talks to the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,374 ratings — published 2003
Murphy's Magic Maximum Entertainment by Ken Weber - Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 4.61 — 74 ratings — published
Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 4.25 — 267 ratings — published 1988
David Copperfield's History of Magic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.84 — 436 ratings — published 2021
The Illustrated History of Magic (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 4.29 — 56 ratings — published 1973
Psychological Subtleties 2 (Psychological Subtleties, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 4.00 — 30 ratings — published 2007
Smoke & Mirrors (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.51 — 145 ratings — published 2012
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 4 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,202 ratings — published 2003
Sailor Moon, Vol. 4 (Sailor Moon, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,420 ratings — published 1993
Psychological Subtleties (Hardbound)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 4.25 — 65 ratings — published 1998
Smoke and Mirrors (The Brighton Mysteries, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.92 — 9,705 ratings — published 2015
Death from a Top Hat (The Great Merlini #1)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.66 — 384 ratings — published 1938
Saint Tail, Vol. 3 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 4.00 — 173 ratings — published 1996
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.89 — 156,479 ratings — published 1962
The Practical Encyclopedia of Magic (Softcover)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.83 — 58 ratings — published 2002
The Zig Zag Girl (The Brighton Mysteries, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.64 — 17,416 ratings — published 2014
Saint Tail, Vol. 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.97 — 217 ratings — published 1995
Saint Tail, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.90 — 451 ratings — published 1995
Modern Coin Magic: 116 Coin Sleights and 236 Coin Tricks (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 4.26 — 398 ratings — published 1982
Experiencing the Impossible: The Science of Magic (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.91 — 91 ratings — published 2019
Strong Magic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 4.64 — 115 ratings — published 1994
The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading: A Comprehensive Guide to the Most Persuasive Psychological Manipulation Technique in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 4.03 — 549 ratings — published 1998
Magic and Showmanship: A Handbook for Conjurers (Dover Magic Books)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 4.17 — 106 ratings — published 1980
Self-Working Mental Magic: 67 Foolproof Mind-Reading Tricks (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as stage-magic)
avg rating 3.51 — 71 ratings — published 1979
“It is the illusion of magic and the magic of illusion that we are primarily interested in- not the privy tricks or the key to the secrets themselves. We seek the bafflement, the contradictions, the amusements, and the innumerable emotions that ripple uneasily through the audience. It is not knowledge we are after, but mystery and disguises. We want to gaze at the impossible. We are hungry for surprises, astonishment. In short, we are looking for a true story, but one impossible to explain in all its complexity. When we discover that story, we shall have found- magic.”
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“Take those frauds who practice pseudoscience - do you know who they're most afraid of?"
"Scientists, of course."
"No. Many of the best scientists can be fooled by pseudoscience and sometimes devote their lives to it. But pseudoscience is afraid of one particular type of people who are very hard to fool: stage magicians. In fact, many pseudoscience hoaxes were exposed by stage magicians.”
― The Three-Body Problem
"Scientists, of course."
"No. Many of the best scientists can be fooled by pseudoscience and sometimes devote their lives to it. But pseudoscience is afraid of one particular type of people who are very hard to fool: stage magicians. In fact, many pseudoscience hoaxes were exposed by stage magicians.”
― The Three-Body Problem
