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What do you think are the top 5 card magic books ever? I'm looking into maybe buying a new card magic book, as the only real book on magic (well 'mentalism')I've got at the moment is Corinda's 13 Steps.

I have Ninja 1 & 2, and was wondering would it be a bad choice to buy a famous card magic book that would end up just having all the stuff I already know in it?

I like some of Paul Harris's effects, such as reset, and was wondering whether his Art of Astonishment book would be good?

Any of your thoughts on this would be helpful.

Please give your top 5!

I know there not all card related but i liked these.

1)Art of Astonishment 1-3, Although not all card magic there is an abundance of material in these.

2) Apocalypse - Harry lorayne again not specifically card magic but worth a look

3) I learnt my first bits of card magic as I'm sure others did with Mark Wilsons Complete Course in magic

4) RRTCM

5) I also a while back bought quite afew of Karl Fulves Self Working books. I think the fact that they are self working doesnt make them any less credible.

These have been the most use to me

1 Mark Wilson's Complete Course
2 Royal Road
3 Bobo (not card magic I know but deserves to be in there)
4 Encyclopedia of Card Magic
5 Karl Fulves Self Working Mentalism (again not strictly card magic but does have some very good card tricks in)

purely for cards, i'd say overall, for me:

Royal Road to card magic - hugard & braue
Seventh heaven - lewis jones
expert card technique - hugard & braue
cards on the table - jerry sadowitz
scarne on card tricks - scarne

To change the question ever so slightly, the five I learned the most from (for completely different reasons). are:

Royal Road - because we all start here.
The expert at the card table... Erdnase old, dry but insightful (more sleights than ticks)
Pure Effect - Derren Brown has a few great card tricks in it, and allows card tricks to be truely astonishing (with some luck/skill )
Mastering the Art of Magic - Eugene Burger has some great tricks (a lot of which are cards) and concentrates on script as well as effect.
Mnemonica - Juan Tamariz (an in depth study into one part of card magic).

the royal road is awsome but so to is expert card technique. If you had a handle on all this material you would be card miracle worker. I also quite like jerry sadowitz stuff (but i think hes scary hahaha)

I would say that the best would definitely be Royal Road to Card Magic, and I've heard that expert card technique is also good, but I haven't read it yet (its actually being shipped to me right now so I hope its good), and Ive heard good things about Expert at the Card Table, but I think its more for cheating at cards, but if you can do sleights in a poker game you would be able to do sleights in magic.

Mark Wilson's CCM. It's great for people just starting out in magic or for someone who's looking for something more challenging to baffle his audiences.

Lady of Mystery wrote:3 Bobo (not card magic I know but deserves to be in there)

Someone asks for the top five CARD magic books and you think it's worth putting a COIN magic book in there? How about 13 Steps to Mentalism or a Cups and Balls DVD?

For me, these three have to be in there:

Royal Road to Card Magic
Expert Card Technique
Seventh Heaven

I find it gob smacking that people put Complete Course in the top five CARD magic books, just because they have it and it has a card section in. Are there really no five better card magic books?

In no particular order, and all have played a good role in my love of card magic.

1: Royal Road
2: The Card Magic of Nick Trost
3: Marlo, Advanced Fingertip Control
4: Marlo's Control Systems
5: Vernon's Inner Card Trilogy

1. Card College
2. RRTCM
3. Dai Vernons inner secrets trilogy
4. Art of astonishment - some AMAZING card conjuring in here
5. expert card technique
6. Erdnase - expert at the card table ( should be in there I feel )

Granted Ive not worked my way through all of them.. but have learned a lot from what Ive studied so far

1 Jennings 67 ......Larry Jennings
2 at the card table .......Ortiz
3 counts, moves and subtlties.....Mentzer
4 Las vegas kardma.... Allan Ackerman
5 The card magic of Ed Marlo..... Marlo

I.D wrote:5. Erdnase - expert card technique

In fact by Jean Hugard and Frederique Braue . Fantastic book though!

Steve

I.D wrote:5. Erdnase - expert card technique

Or was that Expert at the Card Table?

damn it!! I was at work..

I first put Erdnase - expert at the card table.. then changed it to expert card technique as thats more suited to card conjuring, but I forgot to change the author

Ive edited it now