by Lady of Mystery » Sep 26th, '14, 09:53
If you're looking for cards magic, the best book to get hold of is Royal Road to Card magic. There's a ton of material in there which is very visual and well worth looking at. If you did want to try out some other areas of magic, Mark Wilson's Complete Course covers everything from cards and coins to ropes, sponges and just about everything else you can think of. Don't be put off by sponge balls and their reputation as kids magic, for clubs they are brilliant and get some of the best reactions of anything that I do. They're easy to follow, very visual and can get the spectators involved (although becareful which balls you use as I've known some to glow under UV lights and that can obviously make them difficult to work with but the usual red Goshman ones should be fine).