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Black Book Three by Black Hart

The Effect
Subtitled ‘Tales of a Wandering Tarot Reader’, this book is all about the practical aspects of Tarot reading in pubs and clubs and how you can perform Bizarre Magick in all circumstances. Written by The Black Hart in a chatty and anecdotal style, learn from his real life experiences with real people.

Cost £15 from http://www.blackhart.co.uk

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)

n/a for the book, but there are a couple of bonus tricks at the end, 1 and 3 respectively.

Review

Having studied Keith's excellent Tarot Made Easy to the point of getting bookings for, and making a little money doing Tarot Readings, I was keen to hear Keith's experiences, wisdom and tales on his own Tarot reading experiences. I wasn't disappointed. Keith's writing style is easy to read, his chatty, anecdotal style is just that, chatty, anecdotal, and I read this cover to cover without putting it down. There are a number of little gems of advice, most of which have an a funny anecdote to go along with them, and it's just nice, and somewhat reassuring to learn that you're not the only one who has the occassional weird experience while you're working.

There could have been a little more depth in theory, perhaps on the best ways to advertise, may be a bit on cold reading, but that's not really the point here - it's more about Keith and his experiences than the theory as it were behind making money from Tarot Reading, and as such, the nuggets that you do get are welcomed. You also get a couple of 'tricks' at the end to mix in with your readings, to help reenforce your psychic powers, and welcomed advice on what you need to know in case you come up against a coven of vampires in Birmingham (I kid you not!).

Overall, this is a nice, well written and well presented spiral bound book. It's fun to read, has a number of golden nuggets of advice, and is above all entertaining. I think it would be nice if Keith would combine this with his Phsychic Reader's Course as a super-deluxe offering, or at least with the Tarot Kit, as it expands nicely with the material in Tarot Made Easy, and certainly answered many of the questions I had when I first read it.

Also, thanks to Keith for signing my copy, he's a gentleman and a scholar.

Overall 8/10

couple of years ago BH gave me some advice on the phone on this very subject - it was gold

i've got this text on my list as a next purchase

however, ot would be interesting to know more about publicity

I've just bought the big black book and I'm looking forward to reading it all through

Thank you for your kind comments Magikmax.

I think it would be nice if Keith would combine this with his Psychic Reader's Course as a super-deluxe offering, or at least with the Tarot Kit

An interesting thought. I have developed the Rune and Tarot courses to be simple and undaunting. My fear would be that as I have already combined the two volumes for sale with the PRK the book would become unwieldy, too large and may put people off a bit due to its volume.

I like the Rune and Tarot courses because they are so simple. People can pick up Tarot Made Easy and think 'hey this doesn't look too hard'. Would they think this if they were confronted by a thick A4 size volume?

Thank you again for your thoughts.

Keith Hart

Good point Keith. Rather than lumping them together then, you could maybe just add a paragraph at the end suggesting further reading, including your own volume at the top of the list

Max, that is a good idea, thanks...

Keith Hart

I enjoyed this a lot more than the tarot readers course (not to say I didn't like Keith`s tarot course, just proffered this). It's a good funny read giving real life experience of readings. Most books on tarot just give descriptions of how to do readings and don't give any of the persons personal journey. In that sense it makes for an slightly different read looking at some of the problems you will come up against when you actually get out and do readings. I agree a bit more on bookings, advertising and the practical side would be useful, but it does make for purely entertaining reading as it is.