kevmundo wrote:Quite simply, this is the driest, dullest, most poorly written teatise on mentalism that has ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth.
Clearly you have not read many books on mentalism. When I have trouble sleeping I just have to imagine reading some of the books on my shelf and I start feeling drowsy. I'm actually not joking. There are tonnes of books that are worse than PMM.
I find it hard to sit down and read long mentalism texts from cover to cover, but have you considered that you don't have to approach the book in that way? PMM is actually a bunch of articles from The Jinx magazine, so it's completely acceptable (and probably sensible) to dip in and out, reading one or two effects from random places. Attack it piecemeal and you might have a more productive time.
I don't read mentalism books for my own entertainment, anyway. It's the same with computer manuals - I want to achieve X and read books A, B and C with an aim to complete my goal. The fun is in the implementation (i.e. performing or programming).
T.