First review
I apologize if it has already been reviewed, but could not find one in the search..
The Book
Building Blocks - Luke Jermay
Cost
£37.00 for you brits
They say:
Luke has tipped the real work on using Suggestion Techniques. Luke covers the Definition = Creation theory along with several other techniques and teachings. This, coupled with his groundbreaking applications of the four Convincers, is enough to transform and amplify your performances right away. But that’s just for starters! Wait until you see some of the effects he teaches. Imagine yourself performing these routines:
A plucked rose visibly wilts and dies as you talk about the fragility of life…
An aura reading routine, which climaxes with the spectator genuinely seeing your aura - and you can provide proof!
You cause the spectator’s sense of time to physically slow down (we don’t just mean their watch, although of course that happens as well!). They are almost unable to physically move as they are stuck in a single moment of time.
You perform a version of Out Of This World, with a borrowed deck, with no set-up, no sleights or switches. In fact the spectator’s intuition can even be shown as correct for each individual card as it is dealt! This is the real work on the verbal control of a spectator.
Despite being blindfolded, you can read a selected sentence chosen at random from a borrowed book, with your fingertips! You can even scan through the whole book with your fingertips and comment on the story and characters. Did we mention that the blindfold is real and that you genuinely can’t see a thing and you can do this anywhere anytime?!
Imagine having your spectator actually feel their thought leave their mind and enter yours - imagine no more! With the Burst Bubble suggestion, your spectator will believe they felt the moment of magic happen inside their own mind!
These are just a few of the incredible routines that Luke teaches in this new book. Every routine is accompanied by his suggestion techniques as applied to that specific piece, as well as his full performance script, plus many additional touches and ideas.
His sensational Out of This World is taken to an even more impossible level with just five un-gimmicked ESP cards. He has shared his personal Book Test, his acclaimed work on PK Touches, his thinking on playing cards in mentalism and so much more. He teaches the techniques of Anchoring and specifically how to apply them to magic performances.
By blending up-to-the-minute psychological techniques with some classic conjuring methodology, Luke has created cutting-edge Mentalism and Magick effects that will have your audiences believing that you can do anything! Going far beyond the material in his first release, 7 Deceptions, this new book really does teach you the “Building Blocks” of becoming an expert at previously jealously guarded techniques of suggestion and mind control.
Difficulty
can't really rate the difficulty since it comes down to the person reading it.
Review
This was one of the first books on suggestion i got. Remember how my girlfriend got upset when see saw that I had just used about 50£ on a book so small, and it really is small! but dont get fooled by the cover.
After i read this one, everything changed. I find myself using the techniques all the time. Even in my ambitious card routine I try to make the spectator feel the card rise to the top. This is a musthave if you are interrested in learning how to use suggestion.. The routines are great but even greater is the fact that the effects are more like small demonstrations of the techniques covered within the book. The possibilities seems endless.
Luke tries to combine suggestion with classic conjuring and mentalism. There is some purely psychological effects though, like a strange garden.
If you buy it just looking for tricks/secrets then you are defenitly cheating yourself, and you will probarbly find that a lot of the routines wont work for you. But if you're interrested in learning how to use suggestion to it's fullest then this is the perfect choice.
Overall
This is a classic. In my top 3 "magic books" along with absolute magic and sleight of mind. I'll give it a 9/10 because of the price being a little too much.
