By Tom Ogden
Published by alpha books
International Standard Book Number
(ISBN) : 0-02862707-5
Paper Back
374 pages
This book is a surprisingly good,
having enough information to teach complete beginners
and entertain seasoned professionals. The book's trick
are many and range from very easy to medium difficulty,
which includes such classics such as, the Professors
Nightmare, Misers Dream, and a short version of Cups
and Balls. Before the book teaches tricks, it goes
through in depth what magicians need to do, hence
the title. After the tricks magic's history is explained
along with biographies. Most important of all, at
the end, the book offers many recommended books, stores,
conventions, clubs, and web pages.
This book is excellent for beginners
yet is able to hold the interest of professionals
with it's historical and biographical content. Among
the most interesting history, is the history of some
tricks that accompany their explanation.
Unfortunately, the books table of
content is some what displeasing. The non descriptive,
although clever, titles of some section only worsens
the problem, but this can be remedied with dog earing,
paper, or post it notes.
Links
Web Page: (Getting
Started with Books) --
recomends the book as a good starting book
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