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Hi all, What is your favourite Magic book. Mine is The Royal Road To Card Magic

mark wilsons comp course in magic and bobo's coin book.

i have royal road but cards are not my seen.
what do you lot think is the best coin book to follow / replace bobo's.

Overall, I think Mr Wilson gets my vote too.

I remember trying to learn some card sleights from a Hugard book (no "RRtCM" though) and got thoroughly fed up with trying to follow things with the old-fashioned descriptions and the lack of illustrations ("They are not tattoos, they are skin illustrations" - bonus point to anyone who can identify that quote).

Then I got the Mark Wilson book and, look, pictures. Lots of pictures. You can follow what he's saying because there are pictures.

That was when I learned to false riffle shuffle and I've never looked back.

I know "RRtCM" is a classic, but I went straight for "Card College", partly because of my dislike for Hugard's style (the other reason was that it covers much more recent sleights as well as old ones).

Now, if only I could get around to practising...

I really can't think which is my favourite book. A book I had when i was a kid would probably be my fav - but i lost it and I can't remember who wrote it
It had everything from cards and coins to dove magic and illusion.

The books I probably spend most of my time working through would be Bobo's modern coin magic and Royal Road to card magic. I've got used to Hugard's style from reading Encyclopedia of card tricks and a whole lot of other stuff i have on cd. I have decided that the next thing I'm buying is a dvd - on the spo - by Greg Wilson. I have at least 15 magic books next to my bed and yet I've learnt far more just spending time with the guys at the magic circle - so I'm thinking that the visual instruction of a dvd might be a good investment..

My Fav Book at the mo is Card College vol 1.
I also got RRTCM and i agree 100% with Part-Timer.
Im learning much better from the Card College book and i will be geting th next 4 for sure.
mark wilsons comp course in magic I have on order.

Taff, you won't be disappointed I love this book, It has a good mix of sleights which can be referred to easily and some great tricks, with principles that can easily be adapted to create your own tricks.

I also have "now you see it now you dont" by bill tarr, I also think this book is great I call it the impromptu encycclopedia as it is pretty much all sleights so if someone says "show us a trick" you can completly unprepared! I quite like the torn and restored cigerette paper, i use it quite a bit as i smoke and when people tell me of all the problems it can give you i say "d'you wanna see a trick?" and that stops them tellining me of my imenent death !

On a wider area of magic, my favourite at the moment is http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=16568#16568 and has been for some time. A great groundwork in basic and advanced Magic - and so cheap it's almost a crime!

I would agree with Mandrake as it is so easy to understand (The Art of Magic and Sleight of Hand by Nicholas Einhorn)

how ever mark wilsons comple..... (after typing that first one i can't) is also very good

so to gether they make a compleate starters lidbary.

Pcwizme

'Now You See It, Now You Don't' is an excellent book by Bill Tarr
and I got his other one '101 Magic Tricks' aswell. 'Now You See It Now You Don't' is probably better as it is more sleight of hand which is what I like but there are both great and full of very useful material.

wow so many magic books out there too get ,where doo i start lol?
I also thinking of getting the paul Harris Art of Astonishment books.
Heard good things about the set.
anyone got them?

I got "Now you see it .." just the other day. I was a little disappointed cos there wasn't anything in there that wasn't in any of my other books - but the illustrations are excellent. I wish it had been one of the first books I had bought..