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kevmundo wrote:Aprox £25.00 last time I chaecked
kevmundo wrote:After reading the opening peek, amusing entitled 'Cheekie-Peekie' I knew I was in for over two hundred pages of prolonged disappointment. I immediately came to this conclusion because I believed that if I was writing a book, my first described effect would be a real stunner, to set the scene for the rest of the material. Some people may like this method, I didn't.
kevmundo wrote:As for the rest of the peeks, I think the book was at a disadvantage with me to start with, simply because I already have numerous peeks that I use and I'm happy with.
kevmundo wrote:I'm saying 5 out of 5.
Ted wrote:Did you buy it just recently? If so, how much did it cost? £25 is actually quite a good price for this book, so it would be good to know your source.
Ted wrote:A point of fact: Cheekie-Peekie is not the opening peek. The first one involves an envelope. Also, Cheekie-Peekie is useful/practical in some circumstances, but not all. This point is made clear by Richard right from the off.
Ted wrote:In which case one has to wonder why you bought it
Craig Browning wrote:Hard to beat a score like that
kevmundo wrote:Craig Browning wrote:Hard to beat a score like that
Well with most things I buy I'd agree. But compared to something like switchcraft, which is as close to a ten as you can get, this book just fails to deliver. I understand peek encores is even worse so I think I'll pass on that. There's no point chasing your losses after all!!!
kevmundo wrote:I'm saying 5 out of 5.
Ed Wood wrote:What a refreshing review. I read this book a number of years ago thanks to the hype and found it to be a muddled mess of name dropping, self congratulation and badly described effects (or in fact effect repeated over and over with slight variations). At best you need a couple of peak methods and none of them are to be found in this book. There's a reason it's so cheap, it's garbage.
A simple rule I've found works out well for me, if something gets good reviews on the magic cafe it's usually best avoided. I find the cafe, particularly the mentalism section to be a place where a small clique of earnest young mentalists go to sell their over priced, re-hashed products (with a bit of psychology thrown in to make it contemporary) and have their friends say how fantastic it is.
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