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Hey, I'm starting to be a magician and i need help on what books I should buy to get started, I need books that will teach me how to do good magic, be a good card handler and you basics with good magic thanks for your help.

"The Royal Road To Card Magic" by Hugard and Braue.

"Using the Search Function" is a good one

Generally speaking, books like Royal Road to Card Magic, Expert at the Card Table and Expert Card Technique are recommended. Bobo's Modern Coin Magic is good for coins, as is Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic for general stuff. You might like to check out Tarbell too. And Magic and Showmanship by Henning Nelms is good as well.

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Alright thanks, i'll try looking around for it

One that is rarely suggested but is most likely the very best beginner book (if you can find it) is "The Secrets of Alkazar" (Kronzek). It has exactly 12 tricks.

However, if you followed the book and did exactly what it told you to do and learned each trick right out of the pages, you would have 12 tricks that were 100% more entertaining and more deceptive than almost any of these guys who've put 5 years into learning nothing but difficult sleight of hand.

The book teaches proper misdirection, proper story telling, proper blocking...Well, it teaches magic and how to make your tricks truly magical. If you owned no other book and did no other tricks, but you owned this one book and did all 12 of these tricks, as taught, you would be lauded as a great magician by anyone that you performed for.

Get the book and if you don't like it, I'll buy it off of you for double what you paid for it.

Mike.

Michael Jay wrote:One that is rarely suggested but is most likely the very best beginner book (if you can find it) is "The Secrets of Alkazar" (Kronzek). It has exactly 12 tricks.

However, if you followed the book and did exactly what it told you to do and learned each trick right out of the pages, you would have 12 tricks that were 100% more entertaining and more deceptive than almost any of these guys who've put 5 years into learning nothing but difficult sleight of hand.

The book teaches proper misdirection, proper story telling, proper blocking...Well, it teaches magic and how to make your tricks truly magical. If you owned no other book and did no other tricks, but you owned this one book and did all 12 of these tricks, as taught, you would be lauded as a great magician by anyone that you performed for.

Get the book and if you don't like it, I'll buy it off of you for double what you paid for it.

Mike.

Blimey, praise indeed! I am not a beginner but I am thinking of getting this myself.

Now, that's a book i have not seen in a Looooong time Well worth it if you can find it.

RRTCM is a great way to start, but I would also recomend buying Scarne on Card Tricks by John Scarne. It has over 150 effects, and none of them require sleights. The methods used in this book will give you the ideas and knowlage that you need to create your own effects.

I like Scarne, but I think that once you find yourself picking up sleights you will either discard the ones you learnt from that book or, better still, substitute in sleights.