Reviews: Read What Jim Short Is Saying
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Street Conjuror's Coins Across
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Jim Short (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Friday 29 May, 2026)
"Street Conjuror's Coins Across" is sort of a coins across. It's a transposition between a copper coin and a silver coin. It's super easy and the transposition looks nice. The coin shown last is legit, and that's the one that would have the most heat on it.
I wouldn't do this as a stand-alone. It's more of an interlude that could be included in a longer routine. I think that way, the use of two otherwise superfluous silver coins could be justified. I'm thinking of pairing it with Miguel Angel Gea's "Inferential Wild Coin", but anything using multiple coins with two different types of coins would work. This would be a nice lead-in for "Coins of Ishtar" by Jules DeBarros, for example.
Paper to Bills
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Jim Short (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Monday 27 April, 2026)
It's a good thing this is a free download, since all it does is point the reader to a Linking Ring magazine that has an explanation of the effect.
More Than Meets The Eye
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Jim Short (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Monday 27 April, 2026)
Mr. Harlan is an experienced and accomplished performer and it shows in this manuscript. He gives incredibly solid advice on building an act. Performing and describing a performance are two different skill sets. Most performers aren't good writers. Fortunately for us, Mr. Harlan, in addition to his great performance skills, is also a very good writer. The material is described clearly, and he goes not only into the 'what, but also the 'why'.
Please note that there are no tricks explained. This is a how-to on taking the material you already know and organizing it into a solid show. Dan also requires you to do some homework. It's not at all difficult, and it is the driving force behind creating a good act.
ESPecial Double Divination
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Jim Short (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Monday 27 April, 2026)
There is nothing new here, but it's a solid piece of mentalism. It's nice that the cards aren't marked in any way.
If I were to perform this for other magicians I wouldn't use the CIRCLE /CROSS /WAVY LINES /SQUARE /STAR setup Mr. Czaja suggests, as that is well-known (for the neophyte it would have been nice to explain why that order is used). For a lay audience that setup is fine.
Five Haunted Keys
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Jim Short (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Saturday 26 February, 2022)
In this manuscript Mr. Voodini gives you opportunities to be as spooky or as lighthearted as you wish. He also makes things easy to learn - in the first 'routine' he doesn't do any magic at all!
The routines are uniformly great, but the real value is his demonstration of the strength of a well-written script. Neither I nor he recommends you perform any of these verbatim, but use them as a jumping-off point for your own scripts.
This is a bargain at the listed price.