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odd title for a mentalism/mental-magic book..but regardless of that - I got this earlier this week, still not had chance to go through it all with a fine-tooth comb, but I thought it was worth a mention...
if I were to say to you - pay me $30, or £15, and I'll give you 30 effects back...would you at least be interested? I was...and that's why I got the book...
as I say, not had chance to read it thoroughly enough to give a complete review, but I will say this, it covers:
a larry becker based gun/russian roulette effect..
a colour and esp test combined
a two phase lock and key effect
a wierd thing with old coins and battered tarot
and the rest are all equally offbeat and kinda give you a few different paths to go down, some are psychologically dressed, others are a little bizarre in nature - others are tasty little experiments to entertain your crowd...even one effect to do with football and the world cup!
you will need to buy simple items for some effects, and a few require you to make some things too - nothing though, is expensive, hard to find, or difficult to make...the two items I made up took me less than half to hour to make a few of...
there's also a few that use photos, paper clippings, songs, empathy between couples as well as some good old card work that treads the border between canasta/knepper in presentation...there's even a couple of psychologically based routines too...oh and a banknight routine too...there's even some dual reality around...
now, what I love about this book, is that all due credit is given right away to anything similar, or based upon..very well done for that...also, its nice to have a nice big shiney a4 sized book on mentalism for a change...
Another good touch is that Andrew Regnauld has also supplied useable b&w photos to help you with a few things, as well as offering different presentations for the effects too...
I'm actually very impressed by this book, something I got on a whim as it were...extremely good value for money - nice and varied, and useable as far as I can see...i'll be tinkering with a few of them over the weekend...
extremely good value for money!