reviewed by Gregg Webb (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 19 October, 2025)
This is one of the best ways to add more keywords to your readings for people, and you won't be at a loss groping for where to start or thinking of the perfect words to use. This is another book you can keep returning to to improve your readings.
reviewed by Gregg Webb (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 19 October, 2025)
Michael Daniels consistently comes up with terrific stuff. There is a lot to like here. I'm retired, but still like to read good books. You'll keep coming back to this, I think.
reviewed by Gregg Webb (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 19 October, 2025)
Bob Nelson's books are terrific. Although there are some new trends in mentalism, making this somewhat "old school", nevertheless it adds to your overall understanding of this category of feat.
reviewed by Gregg Webb (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 19 October, 2025)
Most people know the trick, which is still a good trick. Larry added a script with some gags you might want to use and some you might not. What I think helps the trick is the addition of some moves during the process, and the use of some coins as markers, which adds a gambling theme. The ending gag is offbeat and probably useful. You might rewrite the script after seeing how it helps elevate the trick. You don't have to use his gags, which are personal. Having an ending helps.
reviewed by Michael Lyth (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Friday 17 October, 2025)
Another American Magician steps forward to help with raising funds for Unnamed Magician's family member with cancer at this rate I will be reading till next summer. But it is great that other magicians are helping. I salute you all. My reviews of the five to follow upon reading.
reviewed by Bill Miller (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Monday 13 October, 2025)
Back flip, alone, to me is well worth the price.
reviewed by Bill Miller (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Monday 13 October, 2025)
It’s a lot but if you can pull it off you’ll kill em’!
reviewed by hal barlow (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 12 October, 2025)
I feel this was overpriced for what it was.
reviewed by John Kauth (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Friday 10 October, 2025)
What an incredible value to support a great cause! It appears after a quick run through of the files that most, if not all, of these are card tricks. What makes these exceptional is the Unknown Magician's attention to detail. He goes into great depth, not only explaining a trick but also delving into the mathematics behind it and its variations. There are many card tricks where a portion of the deck is cut off. Most instructions leave it at that. The Unknown Magician explains in great detail why a specific range of cards is needed and the ramifications later on of having too few or too many cards in the pile. (See ACAAN, Another Approach to an Age-Old Plot) The instructions are interesting and exceptionally clear. There is plenty of depth here, and the principles explained can be adapted to create new tricks. I have never encountered tutorials with this much depth, written in an understandable way. I have looked at many of the tutorials, and none require knuckle-busting slights. Highly recommended, and please support this great cause.
reviewed by Michael Lyth (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Wednesday 08 October, 2025)
As a 66 year old magician who myself suffers with health problems I hope to find many great routines over the winter months to keep mind and hands active and that many wise magicians will purchase to aid raising funds for your family member as I read and learn from each one I will post reviews. I wish your family member a supportive hello from this old man in the UK
reviewed by Yuan Liu (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Monday 06 October, 2025)
NOTICE: this is not a full-deck false shuffle!
reviewed by Laurence Kirby (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Wednesday 01 October, 2025)
Some tricks I remember and a few I forgot, some that time may now prevent them from happening. On the whole, there are tricks that I'm able to teach my grandson and lots to choose from. Really enjoyed the book.
reviewed by Gianluigi Sordellini (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Monday 29 September, 2025)
If you love Faro Shuffle, this ebook is for you.
reviewed by Brian Catlin (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Thursday 25 September, 2025)
Superb routine, recommended by Ken Brooke when he published his Sucker Colour Changing Silk routine way back. I purchased mine in 1955. At 3 Dollars, this is a giveaway.
reviewed by Donald Pudliner (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Tuesday 23 September, 2025)
Great to have this available at such a reasonable price.
reviewed by Dan Sherer (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Thursday 18 September, 2025)
This is mostly good, though it has some copy-editing problems here and there. Worth a look if you like the sort of effect described.
reviewed by David Hughes (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Monday 15 September, 2025)
It's short, but the concept it teaches really makes cold reading easier.
reviewed by David Hughes (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Monday 15 September, 2025)
This is a really good look at the way we get equivoque wrong. Great advice in here.
reviewed by David Hughes (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Monday 15 September, 2025)
It's hard not to love this collection. There are a lot of great effects in here, and the writing is really good too. Even if you just read it for historical reasons, I think this is worth the price of admission.
reviewed by David Hughes (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Monday 15 September, 2025)
I'm giving this 3 stars only because the gimmick is very hard to find (locally and online) in 2025. I think it would work well if I could locate the most important piece or figure out how to make my own. I have no doubt that this would work really well as an I-pad, but it's frustrating that the gimmick is so hard to find now.
reviewed by Niccolo Sancrotti (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 07 September, 2025)
Tenete d'occhio questo promettente mentalista, specialmente se adorate gli effetti improptu e propless: sono curati tutti i minimi dettagli e crea la vera illusione della lettura del pensiero.
Aspetto altri lavori!
reviewed by Koko B (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Tuesday 02 September, 2025)
This is so brilliant! We need more Paul Gordon downloads!
reviewed by Eddie Mukai (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 24 August, 2025)
Fantastic routine! 5 stars to Chris and Lybrary!
reviewed by David Iredale (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Saturday 23 August, 2025)
As someone who has very dry skin, I find most coin slights impossible to perform and have to rely on subtleties rather than sleights. This routine would fit nicely into other routines using a C/S coin.
reviewed by Rick Sandberg (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Friday 22 August, 2025)
This is a terrific entry-level effect that can be performed right away - simple, clean, easy. Four stars because it looks to me to be too simple to be a standalone effect, but good for a transition between effects, or a quick change of pace filler. It obviously requires a copper-silver. I've been performing coin effects daily for about a year and wish I had something as easy and impactful when I first took up coin work. Note that I haven't performed this since I don't have a copper-silver, but this is clearly as easy as it gets. And it's free!
reviewed by Jens Woinowski (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Friday 22 August, 2025)
The content of this book does not need yet another review. I am still writing one because the Lybrary version is the best legally available electronic version I have encountered yet. For my purposes, a true text PDF with proper links beats a facsimile any time. It is only four stars because an e-book reader-friendly format like EPUB would be even better.
reviewed by Michael Broussard (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Thursday 21 August, 2025)
Emily V2 is fantastic. I'd say in the right hands (if one has a basic knowledge of the effects and techniques used in Bizarre Magic and Storytelling) it's an extremely well-orchestrated and powerful piece of theatre. Theatrical seances can be challenging to perform well, especially when dealing with subject matter as somber as child abuse, and striking the right balance of emotion and entertainment is definitely something that can really only be learned by performing. That being said, Emily is a piece that would probably be best suited for a more seasoned practitioner but even beginners could benefit quite a bit from studying it and learning about how to structure and present an excellent, solid piece of storytelling magic.
reviewed by Brian Marks (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Wednesday 20 August, 2025)
This is one of my favorite effects, and I get several versions in one place.
reviewed by Gregg Webb (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Tuesday 19 August, 2025)
One of the big schools for magic in Las Vegas has added a seance room because there is a comeback of seances going on, seemingly. This book from the 30's is a terrific read and has the bonus of being illustrated by Nelson Hahne, albeit uncredited, who is probably my favorite magic illustrator. This is a great little re-release of a Nelson Enterprises book.