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I'm sure this has been reveiwed before, but I used the search function and couldn't fink one. I'm not too great at using the search though...

The Effect
This has to be the most complete and loaded book of sleight of hand coin magic on the market! 116 coin sleights and 236 coin tricks! This is the most value you can possibly get for your money! You will learn vanishes, concealments, sleaving, cuffing, putting coins in spectator's clothing, producing coins from a spec's clothing or out of thin air, coin transpositions and more!


Cost
$9.95 USD from www.penguinmagic.com


Difficulty
(1=easy to do, 2=No sleights, but not so easy, 3=Some sleights used,
4=Advanced sleights used, 5=Suitable for experienced magicians only)
The effects range from 3 to five, but as you progress though the book, you will develop and be able to execute thouse advanced sleights.


Review
The main reason why I wanted to learn coin magic is because people always have coins on them. This book is great because you will be able to pull of amazing effects without carrying anything around with you! By borrowing a coin, and having no time to set up before performing your astounding peice of magic, you will leave the spec with only one possible thought - you are the greatest magician on the face of the earth!!!!! Or they will tell you to get a job and stop trying to be Harry Potter Though I have not recieved a comment suggesting the latter, I have had many people tell me the former (though some of these people seemed to be stoned out of their minds and probably don't remember anything from the performance). My point is, this book has made me become a better magician than I ever thought I could be. The best part? I know I'll learn more from it because I've only had it for about a week and a half. I guarrantee that the first day of reading it will make you twice the coin manipulator that you were the day before! The best effect in this book has to be the Miser's Dream. It is a classic and J.B. Bobo includes 6 versions of it!


Overall
10/10

A classic that should be on every magians shelf

...and if you ever decide to learn another branch of magic, the sleights will stand you in good stead for other things too...

If you put 'Bobo' into the search function and limit it to Reviews section there are several previous references including a Review at http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic2167.p ... light=bobo - hope that helps!

This book is the bible of coin magic.

i havent really found time to look at it much though... but when i need a help learning a new coin move, i look at bobo first

Just had this book arrive on my door mat today and I can't wait to get home to start reading!

Bargain at £3.50 on Amazon.......

This has all you need to be a master coin worker....I would suggest following it up with David Roth's great tome of coin magic. The section on Okito boxes is worth the cover price. I use a lot of the stuff from Bobo on a regular basis. You can get it paperback from Amazon for pretty good price as it is a Dover classic.

Montana wrote:Just had this book arrive on my door mat today and I can't wait to get home to start reading!

Bargain at £3.50 on Amazon.......

Is this Modern Coin Magic by Bobo.

If this is then WOW I bought mine for 10

but any price is realy worth it

krazy ace wrote:

Montana wrote:Just had this book arrive on my door mat today and I can't wait to get home to start reading!

Bargain at £3.50 on Amazon.......

Is this Modern Coin Magic by Bobo.

If this is then WOW I bought mine for 10

but any price is realy worth it

10, wow I paid about $40, but that was many many years ago, and hard cover.

why don't all prices fall like this??????????


lol

It seems like many do. I have two DVD players I purchased six years ago for about $400 each, you can buy a DVD player now for about $30.

I acctually bought mine from a magic store in my city for $14.95 Canadian, but I listed the penguinmagic price instead.

Kolisar wrote:It seems like many do. I have two DVD players I purchased six years ago for about $400 each, you can buy a DVD player now for about $30.

I know but why doesn't this apply to magic and even very old magic only becomes about 1 pound cheap which isn't realy much

I love that book even though I mainly perform with cards. I find it the coin equivalent book of expert card technique

I think it Modern Coin Magic is the Equivilant of Expert Card Technique and Royal Road to Card Magic together because it takes you right from the basics to everything you need to know.