Reviews: Read What Larry Ekin Is Saying
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More Mind Magic
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Larry Ekin (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Wednesday 06 November, 2024)
More Mind Magic is a collection of four mentalism effects that are suited to close-up and especially one-to-one performance. Michael Daniels' crisply written collection will stimulate your thinking and, if you do any mentalism at all, there is likely an effect among the four that you will pick up and try. My personal favorite is Cyclops, which allows the mentalist to correctly identify and name in order a stack of 5 ESP cards while they remain stacked. You do not touch the cards.
Bammo Crambazzled Dossier
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Larry Ekin (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Wednesday 06 November, 2024)
Bob Farmer's guide to the Ramasee Principle provides clear instructions as well as multiple effects. This is one of those thought-stimulating works that will have you thinking about developing your own presentations. He throws in some extra ideas such as how to have your spectator complete a false cut.
A Hobsonian Handbook
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Larry Ekin (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Wednesday 06 November, 2024)
Jon Racherbaumer's excellent treatment of Equivoke includes well-chosen examples to illustrate multiple ways to approach the subject. Well worth a read and re-read.
Analects and Analogues
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Larry Ekin (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Tuesday 05 November, 2024)
Some nice effects, all cards, many needing gaffs or stacks. I am not that much of a card guy but there is some food for thought.
Blindsight: the original
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Larry Ekin (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Tuesday 05 November, 2024)
This is one of those routines that requires a certain boldness and, until you do it a few times, you wonder if it can be pulled off with its wonderful simplicity. You quickly learn that Devin Knight understands that people make assumptions about certain everyday objects that allow your methodology to fly right under their radar. It is fun to perform and easily lends itself to transition into other effects with related themes -- colors, for example.
Understanding and Using Gilbreath Principle
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Larry Ekin (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Tuesday 05 November, 2024)
Well-written, succinct, and focused. Highly recommended.
Beyond Heaven
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Larry Ekin (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Saturday 05 March, 2022)
Might possibly merit 4 stars. Decent graphics, an interesting plot and a bonus effect "Saints and Sinners" make it an attractive package, and one that, with a bit of effort can be improved. You can find your own headline/fake newspaper generator on the internet, so you might adapt the content to make it suit your own approach. But definitely worth the money.
Travel
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Larry Ekin (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Saturday 05 March, 2022)
Sadly, this effect seems little more than a prolonged game of hangman. If it is going to take you four or five guesses, that's probably too many. There are other travel effects on the market that disguise the method better.