Reviews: Read What Dan Sherer Is Saying

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The Gambling Magician

Overall customer rating: ★★★★★

reviewed by Dan Sherer (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Tuesday 25 June, 2024)

It's mostly fine, though it's not really an act per se, (the first section is a "Card Shark Routine" which I assumed was meant to be a full act, but I suppose that I may have made an assumption). The explanations are at times incomplete (I don't understand how the second trick in the routine is meant to work). I do wish that more of the book was workable with a standard and unprepared deck, but there are some decent tricks and gags in there. Ok for the price, but if you want to do what seems to be the main draw of the book (a gambling expose-style act), there's better material out there.

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Fireworks: 12 card revelation routine

Overall customer rating: ★★★★★

reviewed by Dan Sherer (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Tuesday 14 February, 2023)

If you want to start from nothing and learn a multiple revelation routine, this is excellent. Fundamentally, you learn 3 things: a control, a bunch of revelations, and a routine. The control is very good. Easy, effective, deceptive. I use it a lot even though I don't do most of the revelations anymore. The revelations are all good, and would stand alone as one-off reveals. Good to have in the arsenal. The routine is excellent, not because you should do it (though there's no reason you shouldn't), but because it shows you how a multiple revelation should build and how to keep track of all the moving pieces throughout. If you want to build your own longer or shorter routine, this is a good basis. If you want to do what Doc Eason does and vary the number according to how many people are in the room, well, at least you have a bunch of revelations and a control to be ready. Highly recommended.

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Fifth-Business Monkey Business

Overall customer rating: ★★★★★

reviewed by Dan Sherer (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Wednesday 06 July, 2022)

As expected from Harry Anderson, it's full of good stuff. Well worth a read.

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New Pentagram Magazine

Overall customer rating: ★★★★★

reviewed by Dan Sherer (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Wednesday 06 July, 2022)

There is so much good stuff in here that it's well worth the price.

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Swami and Mantra

Overall customer rating: ★★★★★

reviewed by Dan Sherer (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Wednesday 23 February, 2022)

This is a wonderful resource, full of many excellent tricks and some fun thinking on all sorts of topics. For the price, it's hard to beat.

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Calling all Cards

Overall customer rating: ★★★★★

reviewed by Dan Sherer (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 20 February, 2022)

An interesting routine, and probably worked as written when it came out. However, in order to work it now, you would need to rethink a few of the cards as they either look radically different or just aren't really in use. As to method, well, you probably know what it is if you read the description of the effect, and I will say that unfortunately there aren't any particular insights on the method at least as far as playing cards are concerned. I think it was probably excellent when it came out, but you would need to do a lot of work if you wanted to do it now.