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Monsters & Magical Sticks
Theres no such thing as hypnosis?

By:Steven Heller & Terry Steele

Price: Around £14 to £18
Available from: www.amazon.co.uk www.bookshop.co.uk

Browsing the web for all things magic and mentalistic (if that even a word!) I couldnt help those curious words being branded about saying this was the new form of mentalism.
What im talking about is NLP, NLP stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming which deals with the psycology of how people interact and how ourslves see and perceive the word around us.

After searching for different books on NLP just because iwas so curious i came accross this little gem, with not a bad review to be said about it i proceded to purchase it.
I've read other books on psycology but this has got to be the most interesting and entertaining by far, i am only half waythrough the book but felt i had tell you all. I has to be one of the most interesting reads on the subject and explains things in normal words and makes pure sense. heres a little excerpt from it.

"One evening, a group of friends and I were having dinner at a local restaurant. Our waiter was very distracted and he appeared to be agitated and depressed. He was abrupt, slow and unfriendly. As a result, our service left a great deal to be desired. Since I wanted to have an enjoyable evening, I decided to "talk funny" to him in order to help him feel better.

As he walked by our table holding a coffee pot, I touched his arm and said, "I'm sorry that you forgot that special night ... with that special person ... those exciting things that happened ... those very warm feelings that would embarrass you to talk about ... since we are all strangers."

For a moment his face went blank; he looked up to his left; his face then lift up and he said, "How do you know about that?" He then smiled and began to laugh, and his whole attitude changed as if by magic. He said, "Wow. that was some night. I don't know how you know about it."

The book is full of small storys like this which explain how a phrase can be perceived totally differently to different people.
I belive with a bit of work after reading this book you could totaly enhance you perfomance to the audience by knowing a little more about how they are reacting to you and how to act upon this. Pure Gold!

just wait till i get some more money.

gimme gimme gimme

This is just getting better and better, half reading this and half reading "Finding the elephant". Monsters & Magiacl sticks prooves creep into times when you least expect it, eg talking to mates, and inadvertently realising what their eye paterns are. I wasnt even looking for them but after reading the section on Eye Accesing Cues it just jumps out at you.

Magicdisco, yes buy it, i cant recomend this strongly enough for the interesting content.WoW.

Any ideas on where to get this? Amazon seem to be out of stock at the moment.

Wow that book is popular huh, I had a damn good look around for you but nobody in the UK has it at all do they.

Not in stock but can be reordered at £8.99 (1-3 week delivery) :
http://www.thebookplace.co.uk/bookplace/display.asp?ISB=094140451X&CID=FET573

Looks like a very good book as well.

Thanks for sharing this review Andy, the book sounds like an awesome discovery.
Mathew.

i managed to get the from the whsmith bookshop site listed above or just go to www.whsmith.co.uk all in all it took around 12 days from clicking to purchase

i managed to get the from the whsmith bookshop site listed above or just go to www.whsmith.co.uk all in all it took around 12 days from clicking to purchase. I really want someone else to read this, you could start off a 1000 page thread with the contents of this book + i want to see if anyone is as fanatical as me!!!

1-3 weeks? I can't wait that long! So, ive just ordered it second hand from the states.

[you do know that you should be kicked out of cups for reviewing this book don't you!]

mmmmmmmmmmmmm. You know i remember when i had to wait for my devils picture bookto arrive.
Oh, the cackles and jeers that i got...and yes the wait was terrible but worth it

Now its my turn He HE HE HE

Just wondering if anyone has purchaes this baby yet, Im slowly digesting it for the second time.

Audio, Visual, Kinisthetic- Fasinating!

Just ordered it from the US via amazon.co.uk for just over £7 including shipping!

Aaaaaah... you willnot be dissapointed!

Alright mate!!
Have you received the book yet..What do you think?

They've got this in the 'used and new' section at amazon. I'm SO buying it. I've been in control of my CUPS just recently, and begrudge forking out for Derren Brown's books - this sounds right up my street. I'm figuring it's a lot 'purer' than Brown's too? Like, with less showbiz-y bits in?